"Portrait seen almost whole-length, seated slightly to right playing lute, head turned to face l, wearing loose dress and her hair partly up; tree behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Verse in two lines and two columns below title reads: Were there on earth another voice like thine, another hand, so blest with skill divine, the late afflicted world some hopes might have, and harmony recall thee from the grave., Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 44 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait of Letitia Cross standing three-quarter length to front beside flowers, her hands crossed, head turned slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing loose dress and pearls in her hair, with veil, curtain, arches and statues in garden seen behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4511., and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 50.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 21.4 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 23.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 34 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 33 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre., and Description in an unidentified hand added below image on mounting sheet; window mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
A young woman stands in a city street singing, a tambourine in her one hand, as a man with a satchel peers from behind
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from imprint from the book., Plate from: Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Singers, Street entertainers, and Tambourines
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Second plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Health spas.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Music, Concerts, Audiences, Musicians, Singers, Obesity, and Sleeping