"Portrait of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, after Lawrence (Garlick 554); head and shoulders to front, looking to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 614 (leaf numbered '49' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Sep. 6, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 554); standing three-quarter length holding a brief in his right hand, with his left hand on a paper."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Whitman, A. Charles Turner., A proof state, before horizontal line-tint ruled over inscription space (State 3) and before letters of title strengthened and made thick and thin (State 4). The word "Proof" is etched above imprint statement to the left., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides, resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from Whitman., and Mounted opposite page 568 (leaf numbered '161' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1810, by C. Turner, No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square; Mr. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street, Hay Market; Mr. Molteno, Pall Mall; & Mr. Hatton, Princes Street, Edinburgh
Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1810]
Call Number:
Portraits D157 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1810]
Call Number:
810.04.01.01 Object Room B:D
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title from item., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate engraved for the frontispiece to La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and With plate maker's name stamped on verso: G. Harris No. 31 Shoe Lane, London.
A rider has been flung from his horse and lies on his face screaming; the horse races away without him. From one of his pockets spirts the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other a cold chicken is pulled out by two hounds while others approach with fierce intentness. A second rider just behind the fence gate pulls up his horse in alarm
Description:
Title from caption below item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A later copy of a print of the same title by James Gillray, first published April 8, 1800 by H. Humphrey. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9588., and Watermark: 1813?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Hunters, Hunting accidents, and Hunting dogs
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text., Possibly a copy of a print of the same title by James Gillray, first published April 8, 1800, by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9590 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Watermarks: 1815?
Title from text below item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly a copy of a print of the same title by James Gillray, first published April 8, 1800, by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9589 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Watermark: 1815?
"Johnstone (left) and Mrs. Bland (right), as O'Rourke O'Daisy and his wife Dolly, sing; he smiles at the audience with raised hat, she smiles at him. There is a landscape background with a gate leading to a house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Mr. Johnstone. Long ago from my country I trotted away, knowing well how to rake and to tumble the hay ..., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 51[5]. Partially trimmed., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 4th April 1810 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828 and Bland, Mrs. 1770-1838 (Maria Theresa Catherine),
A clergyman, with a rampturous look on his face, sits in a chair, a book opened in his hands, as a bag of gold spills onto the table in front of him. Next to him in another chair a bearded man, with horns in his curly hair, long whiskers and fangs protruding from his growling mouth, slyly pulls the coins toward his edge of the table. The open page of the hymn book In his hand reads, "O money, thou art my support 'tis thou that dost me feed. Let fools but give me this one thing and nothing else I need."
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '19' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two men sit across the table from each other, the one on the right holds up the pigtail of his companion's wig with his right hand; in his left hand he holds a bowl on the table as his companion vomits into it. His pale-faced companion rests his head in his left hand as he is being sick. The ruddy-faced man on the right looks away, with a slight smile and his tongue between is lips
Alternative Title:
Intemperance and ridicule
Description:
Title etched below image., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '15' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
