"Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke; bust length, head in profile to right; in classical dress with headband; vignette."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Frontispiece to v.1 of: Clarke, M.A. The rival princes; or, A faithful narrative of facts ... London : Printed for the author, and published by C. Chapple, 1810., With the signature of Mary Anne Clarke in ink below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Mounted on verso of second front flyleaf.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1810, by T. Gillet, Crown Court, Fleet Street
Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., Watermark: 1815., and Two impressions in the folder.
Publisher:
Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
Equestrian portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, riding to the left, head turned to the right, one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, in military uniform with star on his breast; a landscape with a distant city in the background
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; sheet 22.8 x 34.5 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Bound in after page [28].
Publisher:
Published 18th of May 1815, by Richard Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827,
"View of York House [now Lancaster House] from the park, St James's; soldiers and figures in park."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Following Crace, the British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1880,1113.2126) suggests a publication date of 1826. However, the reference in the title to "the late Duke of York" suggests a date following his death in 1827, while the further reference to the house still being under construction ("now erecting") suggests a date before its completion in 1838., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 4, beneath the printed text.
Publisher:
Published by S. Robinson, Chapter House Passge [sic], Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827. and Lancaster House (London, England),
Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, collector
Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
Folio 64 Es75 768 Index
Container / Volume:
Index
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
A manuscript index to William A. Foyle's extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and Antiquities of the County of Essex 1768 London edition, listing 868 prints, drawings, and maps used to expand the already illustrated two-volume work into five folio volumes. The additional plates include maps (with some hand-colored maps), portraits of kings, nobility, criminals, and other people; views, scenery, and plans of towns; historical monuments, ruins, castles, manors, and country houses; churches and abbeys; tombs and monuments, coats of arms, genealogies, and antiquities; some satires and a print of the Fairlop Fair. In addition to 21 original drawings, the collection includes representative examples of a range of mediums used in printmaking since the 17th-century and into the late 19th-century: woodcuts, mezzotints, aquatints, steel engravings, stipple engravings, etching, lithography, and wood engraving, many that are hand-colored or, for later production processes, colored as issued; also included are images from London Magazine and the Universal Magazine as well as privately printed plates. Some of the early mezzotints and engravings are in proof states and The entries in the index reference the artist and printmaker (when known) and includes: George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, William Smith, Bernard Baron, James Smith, Simon Watts, Lucas Vorsterman, William Byrne, Charles Turner, Vitor Maire Vicot, George Hawkins, W.H. Byrne, John Claude Nattes, James McArgell, William Franklin, T. Athow, Andrea Freschi, R. Cooper, Samuel Buck, John Coney, Richard Houston, Thomas Nugent, John Simon, Henry Shaw, John Faber, Charles Mosley, Pierre Charles Canot, Edward Harding, Jospeh Ryland, Isaac Beckett, Thomas Wright, and Pierre Lombart. The artists of the original art included are: T. (Thomas) Athow and John Laporte, as well as several unidentified artists
Description:
Index is on 28 unnumbered leaves, with blanks before and following.
