Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Bust portrait of an elderly lady of demure appearance in profile to the right. Her hair is dressed with two side curls, partly covered by a cap. The shoulders and bust are small in proportion to the head.--British Museum online catalogue and Head-and-shoulder portrait of an elderly demure looking lady in profile to the right. Her hair is dressed with two side curls and partially covered by a cap
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image. and Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with drypoint and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 29.9 x 22.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Lord North, with an expression of anxious anticipation, applies white paint to Charles Fox's left cheek while Fox, his face inscrutable, descends the last step to the floor of the House of Commons taking North's left hand. A dog looks up at North. The inscription below the design reads, "--Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro, Translated for the Country Gentlemen, "I have found him a warm Friend a fair though formidable Adversary."
Alternative Title:
Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Printmaker identified as James Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 23 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 17th March 1783 by Edwd. Hedges, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 99. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from earlier state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state: H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delt. ; C.W. White sculpt., Later state, with image reduced to an oval and background elements added. For an earlier state published 28 March 1783 by C.W. White, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.114., Sheet trimmed to oval shape along border of image, with possible loss of text., Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
"A young woman standing at an altar where incense is burning, holding a chalice in her left hand, gesturing and looking up to left, in a landscape with a temple on a hill to right, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Publication information from impression in the British Museum with imprint. See British Museum online cat., registration number: 1868,0808.2810., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs Octr. 1st. 1783, by A. Torre, No. 44 Market Lane
View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill, north front
Description:
Title written by the artist in block letters on mount below image., Artist's initials and date etched in lower left corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Formerly laid in 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 With wash-line mount (40.6 x 36 cm); signed with initials and dated by the artist ("E.E. 1783") on mount, to the right of manuscript title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
