"Portrait of Martha Ray seated three-quarter length to right holding music manuscript, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book, on slab at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 48 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 25th, 1779 by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, & at No. 52, Strand and Chez les Freres Torre, marchands d'estampes
"Portrait of Martha Ray seated three-quarter length to right holding music manuscript, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book, on slab at left; proof before letters, but with scratched inscription."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 47 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff., and "Open letter proof" written in pencil below print, on mounting page.
Publisher:
Published May 24th, 1779, by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street Oxford Street, & at No. 52, Strand
Portrait of Martha Reay seated three-quarter length to right holding a book with musical notation, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book with lettered on spine label "Jepih", on slab at left; against a backdrop of trees, with vista to the right
Alternative Title:
Miss Reay
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published May 24th 1779 by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, & at No. 52 Strand and Chez les Frères Torre, marchands d'estampes
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., and Subjects of the prints dentified as Earl of Loudon and Margaret Woffington. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr ...
Subject (Name):
Loudon, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782. and Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
"An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled and he is urging on the bull with his hat, which is raised in his right hand. He sits facing the animal's tail, which he holds in his left hand. From his saddle-bag appear books: "St Pat . ." and "New System of Fortune Hunting"; a paper hangs out of it inscribed with a list of ladies with fortunes, beginning "Lady Mary Rotten Rump St James Square 30,000£". A sack inscribed "Potatoes" is tied to the bull in front of the saddle. A milestone shows that it is "IIII Miles from [London]".--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paddy on horseback
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker and place of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Caption title., Text within ornamental border., Articles for sale listed in three columns, separated by printers' ornaments; first column begin: Black half-ell modes; three quater ditto; yard-wide ditto; black half-ell, three-quarter, plain, and figur'd satins ..., Watermark: T. Boyd. For further information, consult library staff., and Ms. receipt on blank verso signed by Pridham and dated 27 May 1780 for 40 yards of canvas.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Grigg, bookseller and stationer near Broad-Gate, in the Fore-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing trade, Millinery, Textile fabrics, and Merchants
"A more elaborate version of British Museum satire no. 5611 drawn with more freedom. A joint of beef hangs on the wall behind John Bull; a bundle of frogs behind the Frenchman. The Frenchman holds an open snuff-box instead of a bowl of soup; a laced hat is under his arm; he wears a bag-wig. John Bull's tankard is inscribed "John Bull the Buttock of Beef. . ." Beneath the design is etched: "With Porter Roast Beef & Plumb Pudding well cram'd, Jack English declares that Monsr may be D------d. The Soup Meagre Frenchman such Language dont suit, So he Grins Indignation & calls him a Brute.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Another publication line, "Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, London," has been nearly obliterated at bottom of plate by several etched lines forming the lower border., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James Street
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English, and National characteristics, French
