"Dedication sheet 'To the Queen' from the singer Harriet Abrams; three cherubs sitting facing right, singing, on clouds which curve up and support a lyre and laurel above them, below a crown in rays of light; for an unidentified publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Print possibly designed as the frontispiece or title page for a musical work dedicated to Queen Charlotte. See Wright.
"Interior of the House of Commons; the Speaker Arthur Onslow seated to the left of center, speaking with Sir Robert Walpole on his left; to his right seated with pen and ink and open book is Edward Stables, the Clerk of the House of Commons; other figures from the administration portrayed behind central figures, all wearing wigs and hats, including Sydney Godolphin, Sir Joseph Jekyl, Colonel Onslow, Sir James Thornhilll, and Mr. Aiskew (clerk assistant); just visible to the left of the Speaker are Sir Thomas Cotton and Sir William Wyndham."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To the RIght Honorable Earl Onslow and House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Walpole, Honble. Onslow, Godolphin, Jekyl, Col. Onslow, Stables Esqr., Thornhill, and Aiskew identified below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1803 by E. Harding, No. 100, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, 1645-1712,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Stables, Edward,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Onslow, George Onslow, Earl of, 1731-1814,, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768,
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: Citizen. "Pray fellow what do you mean by ringing my bell so violently; what's your business? Hodge. I did na know it was a bell -I only pull'd that there iron ring. -Cit. Pray what countryman are you. -Hodge. I be an Essex man Measter. -Cit. I thought so, for a person can't beat a bush there , but out comes a calf. -Hodge. Aye Measter, and I perceive a man can't ring a bell in Lunnun but out pops an ass., Plate numbered '324' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Bell -- Citizen -- St. Paul's.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 21, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasol -- Jean de Bry Sleeves -- Bicorne hat.
"Five designs arranged as in No. 11131, the place of the sixth being filled by the inscription below 2. [1] A West India Nabob. He sprawls on a sofa wearing a wide-brimmed hat and with his feet supported on two small chairs. Round him stand nine young women and children. The room is bare, with a table on which is a large bowl, bottle, and glasses. [2] Creolean Patience. A dark-haired lady reclines in a chair, holding a piece of needlework, addressing a black woman, in a sparsely furnished room. Below: "Mimbo "Here Missee "Tell Quashebah to tell Prue to tell Dido "to tell Sue to come and pick up / "my Needle. "Yes Missee "Quashebah is gone to Market "Missee and wont be back dis / " tre hour "What am I to wait three hours for my needle? "Tell Prue to tell Dido to tell Sue to come "and pick up my Needle" "Yes Missee Sue is scratching my Massah's legs and cant come for dis two hour. Oh dear me! one must have the Patience of Job to live in this world with any comfort, here I must wait two hours for my Needle -- Oh dear me! [3] Part of the façade of a house, two open sash-windows above, and, below, a doorway between two windows with open jalousies. The head of the lady of [2] looks from an upper window to say to a black woman standing in the doorway : Quashebah come and take my Head in again. [4] Portable Boot Jack. A planter in a broad-brimmed hat reclines in an arm-chair, wearing top-boots; the left leg, horizontally extended, is held between the legs of a black servant, who is supported by a second (left), while a mixed race boy steadies the back of the chair, and is supported by the back of a fourth boy (right). The man pushes his right foot against the posterior of the first servant, in order to draw off his left boot. [5] One of the Luxuries. The planter leans back in a chair, while one woman cuts his hair, and a second, kneeling on the ground, washes his feet. They are both mixed race. A black girl plies a fan, and a second approaches with a bowl on her head holding out a goblet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Nineteen lines of text in the center of the design., Companion print: Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies., and Temporary local subject terms: Nabon -- Creolian -- Planter.
Publisher:
Published April, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Title from text below image., Text below title: From an original picture presented by his Grace to the Master of Fellows of Pembroke College., Imprint in scratch lettering., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his (right) wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elderly man with peg leg and cane
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower left portion of design, possibly an additional publication line "Pubd. by Dighton", has been obscured with etched lines., Leaf 7 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Pencil annotation in lower left corner of sheet is mostly trimmed away.
"Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his (right) wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elderly man with peg leg and cane
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower left portion of design, possibly an additional publication line "Pubd. by Dighton", has been obscured with etched lines., and Ms. note in contemporary hand below design.
Plate [188] 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'; portrait medallions of Cooper, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Mrs Beale, Sir James Thornhill, Hogarth on a wall with Ephesian Artemis kneeling above, holding a veil over herself, watched by a painter kneeling in the left foreground with portfolio in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [188] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
