A design for a shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant looks on. In the distance a view of Rome. The four corners of the frame are images of Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorne
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Reissue of a plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, opposite page 17.
A shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant looks on. In the distance a view of Rome. The four corners of the frame are images of Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorne
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, v. 1, page 17.
A shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant looks on. In the distance a view of Rome. The four corners of the frame are images of Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorne
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, v. 1, page 17., On page 3 in volume 1. Sheet 17.8 x 13.5 cm., and Ms. note in pencil above image: Copy.
Plate [127] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Sutton, Clough, Blackwell, Myddleton, Whitington and Cresham on a monument beside which Mercury leans, an anchor in the foreground; the Royal Exchange in the background at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [127] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Mercury (Roman deity),, Whittington, Richard, -1423,, Gresham, Thomas, 1519?-1579,, Clough, Richard, -1570,, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 105.
Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Cf. Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. i, p. 18., and A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104.
Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Anna Marie Ireland's signature "A.M.I. fet." burnished forom lower right?, A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104., Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Ticket for the School at Tiverton, Devonshire. Ms. note in pencil: Sold for £10.0.0., and On page 5 in volume 1.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the Roman god Mercury, standing full-length, facing viewer; with wings on his ankles and holding the caduceus in his left hand and a flask(?) in his right hand; a lamb and a rooster stand by his feet; in an oval. Based on the intaglia image in ameythyst, "given to Mr. Walpole by General Conway", on view in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 163 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.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Mercury (Roman deity),
