"Portrait of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, half-length, standing and looking to left, wearing long wig and open jacket."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 128 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd 24 Novr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, bust-length, seated and looking to left, wearing wig, dark coat, ornate waistcoat and jacket, neckerchief and frill; in oval frame on grassy bank, draped with fabric, with coat of arms and qill pen on the left; Holland House in background at right; illustration to Horace Walpole's 'Lord Orford's Memoires'; from a painting by Bentley, the portrait after Reynolds."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Fox
Description:
Title from text above and below image. and Plate from: Walpole, H. Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second. London: J. Murray, 1822.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively no. XVI and no. XVII, of a Mrs. S--d-rs and Henry Fox, Baron Holland
Alternative Title:
Volpone
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), page 281., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one board together with 4 pages of text to which this print is an illustration.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1754]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, almost half-length in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, his arms at his sides, wearing an unbuttoned coat over an embroidered waistcoat, with a chin-length white wig, in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on page 145 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 35.1 x 25.1 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1754]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, almost half-length in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, his arms at his sides, wearing an unbuttoned coat over an embroidered waistcoat, with a chin-length white wig, in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 113 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
"The Princess of Wales and the Earl of Bute drag the British Lion, or George III, in a small car, such as children use, decorated with a big Thistle; on the king's head is a very large jack boot, which, falling over his face, blinds him. Pitt leans over the balcony and endeavours to remove the boot, i.e. to deliver the British Lion from the influence of Bute. The Duke of Cumberland, very fat, wearing the costume supposed to be appropriate to Roman generals, rushes forward to aid the king, his nephew. A soldier, a sailor, and a lawyer endeavour to hold back a wheel of the car, pulling at a rope attached to it. A number of persons, male and female, stand under the balcony and look on. In the background a harbour is indicated by the masts of ships. On our left is "THE OLD BRITISH WARE HOUSE", from which merchants are despatching bales of goods to "Pondicherry", "Martinico 1'', "Guadeloup", "Louisbourg", and "Quebec". These are the names of places captured from the French during the war which it was proposed to conclude by the peace promoted by Lord Bute, and agreed to in 1762. A Frenchman and a Spaniard, colonists (?), are receiving these goods in an amicable way. ... This satire was doubtless designed to induce the ministry of Lord Bute to desist from surrendering the places in question to the French as, even thus early in the negotiations, it was rumoured they intended to do. ...The minister and the princess drag the car towards a "Hosptial for Scoth pensioners." On our right, at the windows, three Scotchmen appear. Hogarth, mounted on a ladder, is busily painting a Scotch Thistle on the sign of the hospital. On his paint-pot is written: "500 250". This refers to Hogarth as the recipient of a pension, or rather as Serjeant-Painter to the king, and especially to the publication of "The Times. Plate I” ..."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political strugle and Political struggle
Description:
Title etched below image. and Cf. No. 3885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772,, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792,, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778,, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774,, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Chariots, City & town life, National emblems, British, Scottish, Taxes, and Warehouses
