Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print showing his Roman eagle, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below and Walpole coat of arms
Description:
Title, printmaker, and artist from later state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,1109.129. and Approximate date from imprint on a later proof state with lettering: Published June [...]th, 1796, by J. Barlow, No. 5 St. George's Place, Black-friars Road, Surry. See Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 6.
Publisher:
I. Barlow
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
"Portrait of the dramatist Sir William Killigrew; three-quarter length, standing, to the right, right hand under robe; with shoulder length hair, moustache, and short pointed beard; a column and tree in background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Sir William Killigrew
Description:
Title from later state., Proof before title; for a later state with title and additional lettering below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1908,0810.6., Publication information from imprint on later state: Published Decr. 1, 1796, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall., Proof state of a plate for: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Engraved after a copy of the painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Little Library of the Cottage at Strawberry Hill, which Horace Walpole believed to be a portrait of John Milton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Mounted on page 201 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., and Annotated in pencil with the title "John Milton" below image and with the name "Mr. Bawtree" in lower right corner.
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 28' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 68' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: 'The Sun' -- Newspapers: 'Cronicle' [sic] -- Newspapers: 'Times' -- Newsmen -- Butchers -- Bristol., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
Plate [183] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; vignette with eight portrait medallions of poets on a stone standing in water with lyre in centre, weeping willow overhanging and temple of muses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [183] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Plate [57] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; an obelisk with nine portrait medallions including King Edward, John of Gaunt, North, Bedford, Shrewsbury, Somerset, Sidney, Warwick and Essex, standing before ruined arch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from local catalog card record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [57] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published 1 Mar. 1796, by R. Bowyer
Subject (Name):
John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399,, Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601,, Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of, approximately 1530-1590,, and Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586,
"Plate 29 [but numbered 30] to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Three elderly men, one holding a pipe, sit fast asleep, framed in an open casement window of the Globe inn. A date in a medallion, '161 - ', is above the window. Sketched at Torrington, a place 'supremely dull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides., Numbered 'Plate 29' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 78' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Inns: 'Globe' at Torrington -- Torrington: Globe Inn -- Architectural details: windows -- Sleeping., and First digit in number in upper left altered to either '3' or '6'.
Plate [124] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; bearded figure sat at foot of monument with six portrait medallions including Shaftesbury, Ormond and Vane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [124] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683,, Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688,, and Vane, Henry, Sir, 1613-1662,
