Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be charact...
"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.
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.
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)
"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.
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 oth...
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
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 almo...
"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.
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.
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...
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 issu...
Alternative Title:
Bottle companions
Description:
Title from item.
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.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bessborough, William Ponsonby, 2d Earl of, 1704-1793.
"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
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 in...
Alternative Title:
Chevalier d'Eon
Description:
Title from item.
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 ...
Description:
Title from item.
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.
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.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Spencer, Charlotte, d. 1789. and Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811.
