"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves; after Richardson after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title in scratched letters below image., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, statements of responsibility, and publication line re-etched, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.308., Engraved after a copy by Richardson, as indicated by the text "from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane" on published state of the plate. The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Year of publication from imprint statement on published state: Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on page 144 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., Note in pencil beside image, on mounting sheet: This is a copy, the original has sold for 12 guineas; she is wrong plac'd here., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st by J. Thane
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 110 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in brown ink below title: The original, which was Richardson's, is now at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Trade card of Fraser, scientific instrument maker, with portrait of the astronomer James Ferguson at top, bust, slightly to left, in oval with garland and ribbon, scientific instruments on pedestal below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fraser, optical and mathematical instrument maker at Fergusons Head ... and James Ferguson
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1115.1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
William Fraser
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776,
Subject (Topic):
Scientific apparatus and instruments industry and Scientific equipment
Profile head of a woman facing right with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper three quarters of the plate. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with fruits, including melons, pears, and grapes, with, a basket of peaches at the summit, and others of plums and raspberries
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and by the artist [?] [Miss] Bath on the right., and Numbered in plate at top: 17, V.2.
Title from caption below image., Text above image: Engraved for Russel's History of England., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume., and Plate from: A new and authentic history of England ... / by William Augustus Russel, Esq. London : Printed for J. Cooke, 1777.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[26 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on gossiping women; two women, whole length in profile, fashionably dressed in enormous bonnets and carrying large fur muffs, encounter each other beside a lake."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 6, V.2.
In an oval, a half-length portrait of James Poro (born Giacomo Poro), shown with his shirt open to reveal his conjoined twin growing out of his stomach, named Matthew or Matteo. They were born in Genoa, Italy. The second small body could function almost normally. If you hurt him, he would cry, and he could move a little bit. Both James and Matteo were baptized
Description:
Title etched on base in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., One line of text following subtitle: (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII, p. 424)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: Poro, James and Matthew, 1686-1714.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1581); as a child standing whole-length to front wearing dark cape, muff and dark hat with ribbon, small dog beside her at left, bird at right; winter landscape behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Manuscript note in upper right corner: "86.", and Mounted to sheet 666 x 471 mm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Tyrconnel (daughter of Marquess of Granby) numbered 4, and the man with whom she had eloped, Charles Loraine Smith numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Lady Tyrconnel and Charles Loraine Smith
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 page 65., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm, on board with pages 65-68 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835. and Tyrconnel, Frances Manners, Lady, 1753-1792.
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.11.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two elderly ladies are seated facing each other, the one on the left extremely fat and the one on the right very thin. Both display the extravagantly tall hairstyles of the day, topped by ostrich plumes. They are each seated on a large cork which issues from a bottle beneath them, an allusion to the protruding "cork rumps" which support their skirts
Alternative Title:
Bottle companions
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate MD., i.e. Matthias Darly., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Early state, without numbering, of no. 5439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly April 11 1777, 39 Strand near York Buildings
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a woman identified only as the widow of a French hairdresser numbered 34 and of the Irish peer, William, 2nd earl of Bessborough (1704-93) numbered 35.
Alternative Title:
Kind keeper
Description:
Titles from text below images., Subject identified in the British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 625.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bessborough, William Ponsonby, 2d Earl of, 1704-1793.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Madame Le F__re numbered 10, and Sir John Saint Aubyn, numbered 11.
Alternative Title:
Cozened minor and Madame Le Fevre
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., Subjects identified in British Museum catalogue., Burford identifies woman as Madame Le Fevre., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777 page 177., and Mounted on board to 21 x 28, with pages 177-180 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
St. Aubyn, John, Sir, 1758-1839, and Le Fevre, Madame.
"Portrait seen half-length in profile to right left within oval frame, wearing embroidered dress with lace cuffs, shawl and her hair full and high, tied with ribbon; state with plate cut above publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4959., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 35 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Full length portrait of D'Eon dressed half as a man and half as a woman. The left side of the figure wears a full and elegantly styled dress, with hair piled high in the pyramidal fashion of the times. The right side of the image is in men's attire including a military coat, the cross of St. Louis, and a sword
Alternative Title:
Chevalier d'Eon
Description:
Title from item., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46 p. 443., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. Sepr. 1777., and Soiled and stained at top of print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810,
A cherubic Mercury (left) and Jupiter (right) sit on a rock in a mountainous and tree-dotted landscape. Mercury holds his caduceus in his left arm and rests his foot on a small shield (?) while Jupiter seated on the ground to the right, holds his arm around the neck of a swan. On a shelf above Mercury's head a rooster looks down on the scene
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 265.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Mercury (Roman deity) and Jupiter (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Children, Caduceus, Roosters, Swans, Nudes, and Myths
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Carter (on the left and numbered 31), and her alleged lover on the right, Thomas Panton, (numbered 32).
Alternative Title:
Miss Carter and Sporting rover
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777 p. 569., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm, with pages 569-572 of magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Charlotte Spencer (a milliner) numbered 7, and William, 5th Duke of Devonshire, numbered 8. The woman is shown with the elaborate hair style and hat of the period
Alternative Title:
D- of D-, Miss Charlotte Spencer, and Duke of Devonshire
Description:
Titles from text below images., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 page 121., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm, on board with pages 121-124 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Spencer, Charlotte, d. 1789. and Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Dawson (on the left and numbered 22), and her alleged lover on the right, the spectacle-wearing Earl of Peterborough, (numbered 23).
Alternative Title:
Miss Dawson and Comte des Lunettes
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 p. 401., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Dawson, Miss. and Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, 1708-1779.