"Landscape with figures collecting wood beside a gnarled tree, cows grazing in the fields at left."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0112.108
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1, 1789, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
"Landscape with figures binding a bundle of wood at right, cattle and sheep resting at left, hills beyond."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0713.2234
Alternative Title:
From an original, late in the collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Mounted on verso of leaf 63 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21, 1789 by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
"Rechab, a male nude, rushing into a room from the right and lunging forward as he falls to his knees before David, holding up the severed head of Saul's son Ishbosheth in his right hand and pointing upwards with the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information based on that of the volumes in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ... . London: J. Murray [etc.], 1789-1798., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On verso is the bottom portion of a print by Bromley after Fuseli with the imprint: Published as the Act directs 20 Octr. 1791 by T. Holloway., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789., "Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner., Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 111 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., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 7.4 x 10.3 cm., Imperfect; only bottom half of plate is present, with top half and all text trimmed away., This impression probably represents the bottom half of a plate sent by Horace Walpole to Richard Bull. See top half of plate and note from Walpole to Bull mounted on preceding page (page 110)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Edwards and J. Johnson
Subject (Name):
Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C., and Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Plate with numbered depictions of the obverse and reverse of fourteen Roman coins and medals. Numbered "4" among these is a gold medal, with heads of Marc Anthony and his wife Octavia, that was formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. An essay on medals: or, An introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals; especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain. London : Printed for J. Edwards ... and J. Johnson ..., 1789., "Vol. I, plate 2"--Upper right corner., Imperfect; only top half of plate is present, with bottom half and all text trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 110 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., With manuscript label on separate strip of paper mounted below image: Mr. Walpole's unique gold is no. 4 of this plate., Mounted beside a note from Horace Walpole to Richard Bull in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. In the note Walpole also mentions sending along the plate in question, and the impression mounted here probably represents the top half of the plate he sent to Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Edwards and J. Johnson
Subject (Name):
Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C., and Octavia, -11 B.C.,
Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1789]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Romeo sitting on a couch on the left, taking hold of Juliet's hand, under an awning in a classical palace, with dancers playing tambourines in the background and a man talking to Tybalt, who grasps his sword angrily."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
'Shakspeare' in open letters etched below imprint. and Full title from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Aqua fortis publish'd May 1st, 1789, by Jno. & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & No. 59, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title assigned by the cataloger., Printmaker identified as possibly Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Sheridan in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title assigned by British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue as Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Reference to Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial.
Publisher:
Publish'd 29th June 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street
"Portrait of William Pitt three-quarter length seated, his head slightly turned to left, his right hand resting on documents on a table; curtain and pillar in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.1338., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted.
