Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[9 March 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 61. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 131. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three soldiers capturing a young man, his kneeling lover clutching his arm, the scene watched by two monks standing in the left foreground, one shaking his fist in encouragement, and another soldier at right; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frederick Zemmerman, having escaped from the Abbey of La Trappe ...
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state., State before letters. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, imprint, and dedication etched below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2934., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 131 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 45.8 x 55.8 cm.
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., and Mounted on page 106.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., and Mounted to 43 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
"Folding plate to 'Hints [ut supra] ... on his modelling a bust of Lord G ****** le' (a verse satire). Nollekens (three-quarter length) stands in back view placing a bust of Grenville on a shelf at the level of his head, between the busts of Pitt (left) and Fox (right). Grenville's eyes are slits; round his neck is a rosary with a cross. Pitt's head, turned to the right, looks over his shoulder at Grenville with a puckered brow ('dignified disgust'). Fox gazes to the left. Two other busts (right and left) on brackets look down with displeasure at Grenville. On an upper shelf is a group of antique busts, their expressions registering surprise or cynical amusement. With them is an oval medallion of a monk kneeling before a cross. Below, flanking Nollekens, are two marbles from his collection of antiques: a seated satyr (left) and a much-damaged torso inscribed 'ΑπΟΛΛωΝΙΟS ΝΕSΤOROS'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted ...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Six lines of quoted verse below image: "And now the point of dress adjusted, methinks I see his Lordship busted, and with the Cross of Peter graced, between his quondam colleagues placed, propose with theirs to join his pate, and form a Bust Triumvirate"., Temporary local subject terms: Busts., 1 print : soft-ground etching and stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 26.2 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 19.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 88 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published by R. Spencer
Subject (Name):
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Sculpture, Monks, and Crosses
Bock, C. W. (Christoph Wilhelm), 1755-1836 printmaker
Published / Created:
[1811].
Call Number:
Print10140
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mummification., and Donor stamp on mount.
The scene in the church after Manfred has stabbed his daughter Mathilda. She lies on a cot as Theodore holds her head in his hands; a monk with a crucifix in his hand also attends her. Behind the monk, Manfred with arms crossed against his chest looks down in anguish. In the background (right) the right arm of the statue of Alfonso the Good points down accusatorily at the scene unfolding below his tomb
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729).
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Homicides, Monks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 59. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
After supper of heaven I dream ...
Description:
Title and printmaker from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published 6 May 1807, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 72-3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Companion print to: The holy friar., and On leaf 59 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"Shelburne, dressed as a monk but wearing a wig, stands in profile to the left, his mouth open as if making a speech, one hand on his heart; he has an alert, propitiatory smile. In his left hand is a rolled document, 'The Speech'. Beneath his feet is etched (as is the publication line) "He wou'd & he wou'd not &c." In the distance is the sea with the sun, inscribed "Poor Old England", sinking below the horizon."--British Musem online catalogue, The old name of Malagrida the Jesuit, given in 1767, was used for Shelburne after he succeeded Rockingham as First Lord of the Treasury, see BMSat 4917 and cf. BMSat 6018, &c. "The speech" is probably that of 13 Dec. 1782 when he refused to answer questions on the exact interpretation of the independence of America in the provisional Treaty. 'Parl. Hist.' xxiii. 305 ff. Cf. also the famous lines on Shelburne's evasive speeches in 'The Rolliad', quoted Rosebery, 'Life of Pitt', p. 51. By the same artist as BMSat 5958, 5975.--British Musem online catalogue, curator's comments, and Shelburne shown in monastic dress facing left, holding a rolled paper in his hand inscribed "The speech". Probably an allusion to his evasive speech in Parliament of 13 Dec. 1782
Alternative Title:
Shell-born Jesuit and He wou'd & he wou'd not &c.
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably by the same artist as British Museum numbers 5958 and 5975., and Sheet extended to 25 x 17 cm.
