Verse begins: "You youthful charming lady's fair,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; imprint at foot of the last column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by rules composed of long dashes., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 58. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1437); half-length looking to right wearing clerical bands and a cap, holding a book under his left arm"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State before imprint added., and Imprint from final state from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1840,0808.92.
Elegantly coiffed and dressed lady faces to the right holding fan, while behind her and facing away stands another woman with a similar dress and hair style
Description:
Title from item., At head of title: Engraved for the Lady's Magazine., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 215., and Imperfect; with offset from letterpress.
Title assigned by cataloger., Publication date estimated from earliest year sitter might be of age for portrait., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text.
Depicts two bearded figures in classical attire (possibly Tragedy and Comedy), the former leaning on a tomb while the latter gestures laughingly at a cracked and broken globe on which the countries of France, Canada and Great Britain are identified. A satyr (the Devil), stands holding his scythe before the globe, whence from the broken area of Great Britain emerges a procession of persons mounted on hobby horses, including royalty, clergy, and a man carrying a ship model and bags of money. Time flies above, lifting the curtain on the scene, while a putto with a bubble-pipe flies towards the globe. Within the bubble is a representation of Fortune. On the ground a monkey accosts an owl, while to the right an open scroll proclaims "Life is a jest," a possible reference to John Gay's Epitaph
Alternative Title:
Life is a jest
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
Invitation to dine with the governors of the Whitechapel Magdalen Hospital at Merchant Taylors' Hall, following a sermon in the chapel of the hospital
Alternative Title:
Sir, your company is desired to dine with the Right Honourable the Earl of Hertford, President; the Vice Presidents, Treasurer, and the rest of the governors of the Magdalen Hospital, at Merchant Taylors-Hall, Treadneedle-Street, on Thursday the 4th of May, 1775
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., With an engraved vignette, presumably depicting a Magdalen sister, at top; a quote from Psalm 51:3 is engraved within a ribbon at the bottom of the vignette: "I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me." The details of the event are printed in letterpress within the open space beneath the vignette., Additional information printed at the bottom, including the names of six "Stewards"; the stipulation "N.B. No servants, but those of the President ... will be admitted ..."; and the notice that "This ticket will admit to the Chapel and Hall.", and Mounted on recent card sheet; sealing wax to upper right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait seated whole-length to right on couch beside pillar, upper body turned to left holding open portfolio on table at left beside papers and vase, head turned to face right; wearing loose, flowing robe and turban."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from text on later states., First (proof?) state of the plate, before sitter's name and publication line added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Publication information based on first published state (second state overall) bearing the imprint statement "Publish'd according to act of Parliament March 15th, 1775, by James Watson, No. 64 Little Queen Ann Street & B. Clowes, engraver, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, London." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., For second published state (third state overall) with altered imprint statement, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.644., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Tipped in at page 68 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
