"Half-length portrait aged 74, sitting in armchair, directed to the right, looking towards the viewer, in wig and private dress, curtain behind on the left."--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., and In paper frame: 365 x 274 mm.
Publisher:
Published May 11, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
841.00.00.37+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, poor emaciated laborers are chained to the ground while above them dangle bread, meat and beer just out of their reach. Behind them a building inscribed 'Poor Law Union'. The ground is inscribed 'Land of the free'. A crowd of people enter a tunnel that above has a sign that reads, 'County Gaol.' In contrast, on the right fat Members of Parliament sit and listen to a speech against Poor Law Reform made by possibly Melborne (William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) who has a paper inscribed with '£70 000 Per Annum'.
Description:
Title from text below image., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
Subject (Topic):
Poor persons, Laborers, Chains, Bread, Meat, Beer, Tunnels, Jails, Politicians, and Public speaking
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 277 (leaf numbered '95' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 1st, 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., Mounted on page 87 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., and Mounted on page 30.
"Portrait of George Tierney, three-quarter length, standing, directed to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing double breasted coat with top button fastened and cravat, left elbow resting on a table with an open book, holding a petition in his right hand; curtain behind on the right, shore view on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication beneath title: To the Right Honble. the Earl of Lauderdale, this plate is by his Lordship's permission humbly dedicated by W. Matthews., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of dedication and complete loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1841,1113.115., and Bound in opposite page 571 (leaf numbered '164' 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:
Published May 7th, 1798, by W. Matthews, No. 86 Blackman Street, near St. Georges Church, Southwark
Portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long waistcoat decorated with flourishes
Description:
Title etched below image. and Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne was an Irish nobleman (1710-1746); 1735 member of the English House of Commons; 1737 Commissioner of the Revenue of Ireland.
Portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long waistcoat decorated with flourishes
Description:
Title etched below image. and Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne was an Irish nobleman (1710-1746); 1735 member of the English House of Commons; 1737 Commissioner of the Revenue of Ireland.
"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.
