"A portrait of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) seated in a Newgate cell, in profile to the right, at a small table. She holds the pages of a large Bible which is supported on a book-box. Beside it are two small books, one of 'Prayers'. The floor is carpeted, but a small barred aperture without glass in the stone wall serves as window. She wears the Quaker dress of all portraits."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1980,U.1007., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in an armchair, directed towards left, head in profile to left, his right elbow on a table covered with a tablecloth bearing coat of arms; his right hand supporting his chin; dressed in ermine-trimmed robes; in the background on the left, partial view of an organ; lettered state, after hair and beard shortened."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of King George III
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Verses etched below image: When the ear heard him, then it blessed him and when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him ... but his name liveth evermore., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To the British nation, this print of the father of his people is most respectually dedicated by Samuel W. Reynolds.
"Half-length portrait as Cardinal Wolsey, three-quarter to the right, unrolling paper on his side, in habit, with medium-long blonde hair, Tower of London seen through arched window in the right background; open-letter state, publication line trimmed off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.258., Artist from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.
"The actor Kean in part as Richard III appalled as his bastard son is presented to him by its mother as a beadle holds a court order for its maintenance at 7/6d a week."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Specimen of Mr. Kean's acting, or, A little man of great parts! and Little man of great parts!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.11.111., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Princes St., Soho, and 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Queen Caroline is seated in a carriage pulled by two white horses lead by a young page towards the right; she holds a walking-stick in her hand, sceptor-like over her shoulder and wears a fashionable hat and a small smile on her face as she looks out at the viewer. She is accompanied by two men in armor and wearing plummed helmets. The one on the far-side of the carriage holds a sign "The people and the Queens Guards". Another sign in the background on the right reads "It is better to put your trust in the Lord than confidence in princes." A crown is shown on the far right
Description:
Title etched below image. and Framed to 23 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W.B. Walker, 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
Queen Caroline walks down a plank balanced between a jolly boat and the shore; she is assisted by her son-in-law Prince Leopald, dressed in black. A cheering crowd stands on the beach, waving their hats in the air, behind an officer who tips his hat at the Queen. Sailors push the boat onto the shingle while a ship called "Prince Leopold" (in reference to her son-in-law) is anchored in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Related to George Cruikshank vignette entitled "Queen Caroline landing at Dover" on the title page for: Nightingale, Joseph. Memoirs of Queen Caroline. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820., and Framed to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
W.B. Walker
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Arrivals & departures, British, Sailors, Ships, Queens, and Kings
"Justice stands on a small rocky plateau surrounded by waves. She holds up a pair of scales; on one scale (left) stands the Queen, noble and dignified, in royal robes, the crown at her feet. She far outweighs the other scale, on which is a huge green bag: 'Ev[ide]nce a[gainst] [t]he [Que]en'; Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Canning stand round it, with a serpent as pendant to the crown. The Queen holds out a scroll headed 'Righ[t] ... of ... Queen' and an open book: 'Liturgy'. Castlereagh holds out to her a scroll headed '50,000 pr An'; he says: "Another Bag (now almost ready) Will make the Balance firm & steady, And certain other pond'rous stuff Will make the Lady light enough." Sidmouth flourishes a clyster-pipe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849). Canning stands behind the Bag on the extreme right; he says: "I wish to God that I was out Of this infernal mounting Scale, For plainly I percieve a rout, And that the Lady must prevail." The Queen: "Vipers Go! I can't endure you, You wrong me I assure you, Yet still I spurn the wrong, and view, With calmness all your Bag can do." Below the title : '"Do thou inspire the stroke "With prevalence divine - as thine the wrong, "Vengeance and punishment to thee belong; "The injur'd state of Innocece [sic] restore, "Crush the bold insults of aspiring pow'r, "Shine like thy radiant source, and mak the world adore.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The new bon ton magazine, or, Telescope of the times. London : Printed for J. Johnston ..., 1818-1821., and Mounted to 36 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
"A realistic view of the House receding in perspective to the Throne, above which is inset an oval bust portrait of Bartolomo Bergami, wearing a cluster of five decorations, see British Museum Satires no. 13810. Eighteen figures and objects are numbered referring to the key in the lower margin. Counsel are in a line across the foreground on each side of the centre figures, who are Gurney the short-hand writer and Majocchi facing the interpreter. The Queen is inconspicuously seated behind Brougham, next a smaller lady who must be the tall Lady Anne Hamilton. Eldon is at the Table in front of the Woolsack. On the Table is 13 Green Bag [see British Museum Satires no. 13735]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron,, Gurney, William Brodie, 1777-1855., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Trials (Adultery), Government officials, Judicial proceedings, Queens, and British
"Portrait of the poet John Oldham; half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing plain black doublet with small white collar, and shoulder length hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Plate from: Cornwall, B. Effigies poeticae, or, The portraits of the British poets. London : J. Carpenter and Son, 1824.
Publisher:
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square
Subject (Name):
Oldham, John, 1653-1683, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons ... London : H.R. Young and T.H. Whitely, 1820, v. 3, opposite page 73., and Copy of a portrait by David Ogborne; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Title from text etched below images., Engraved after a sketch by Charlotte Edgeworth. See page 302 in v. 2 of Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth., Plate from: Edgeworth, R.L. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. London : Printed for R. Hunter ..., 1820, v. 2, opposite page 497., Two images on one plate, each with a caption etched below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., and Watermark: 3 1819.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30, 1820, by Rowland Hunter, Saint Pauls Church Yard
Whole-length portrait of the Irish beggar Jack Haugh; facing slightly left, standing, holding a walking stick and a cap
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons ... London : H.R. Young and T.H. Whitely, 1820, v. 3, opposite page 275., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement added below image in lower left; previous imprint "London, Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street" still present below title. Cf. No. 6343 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
A portrait of Ignatius Sancho, in an oval, half-length facing three-quarter to left, with his right hand on stomach inside vest. Born a slave, he was self-educated and became known as a scholar, playwright, poet, and composer
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of a 1781 print made in London by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Thomas Gainsborough and published by John Nichols., and Mounted to 27 x 19 cm.
"Portrait of Henry Blacker, whole length, standing to left with his right hand inside the breast of his jacket, surrounded by onlookers, three gentlemen and a lady; copy after a contemporary print."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which this plate was made., and Plate from: Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons ... London : H.R. Young and T.H. Whitely, 1820, v. 3, opposite page 35.
A representation of John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on silk with borders woven in royal blue and printed in brown ink. The faces of the forty-eight participants are sketched below the image and numbered with a key in the form of facsimiles of their signatures below
Description:
Title above image., In the 1820s and 1830s, Durand owned a series of printmaking firms and was active in New York., After the painting by John Trumbull or Asher B. Durand's the engraving of the Trumbull painting. Trumbull commissioned Durand to engrave his painting The Declaration of Independence in 1820. See Yale University Art Gallery notes., and Formerly part of the Cowles House inventory.
Title etched below image., Engraved after a sketch by Charlotte Edgeworth. See page 302 in v. 2 of Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth., Plate from: Edgeworth, R.L. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. London : Printed for R. Hunter ..., 1820, v. 2, opposite page 496., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Characters -- Man.
Publisher:
Published March 30, 1820, by Rowland Hunter, St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from letterpress text below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Below image are four paragraphs of letterpress text with the heading "William Beckford" that contain biographical information; the number "23" is printed below the final paragraph in the lower left., Plate from: The biographical magazine. London : Printed for Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, v. 2 (1820), Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted to 41 cm in card stock folder.
"Portrait of John Ogilby; half length, body turned to the left, with hands crossed at chest, head turned and looking to the right; wearing open-necked white shirt, with long waved hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Plate from: Cornwall, B. Effigies poeticae, or, The portraits of the British poets. London : J. Carpenter and Son, 1824.
Publisher:
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square
Subject (Name):
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
