A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apollo but with very different features, the left hand holding the stick of a broom which supports the pose. A fifth connoisseur reaches up to alter the position of the model's head. The artist stands beside his canvas facing the invaders, the left hand, holding palette and brushes, rests on the canvas; he sucks his mahl-stick with a gloomy scowl. On the extreme right a cat sits in a cradle, behind which an alarmed little boy hides. The artist's wife, with an infant in her arms, faces the fire with her back to the visitors whose unwelcome intrusion is apparent. Behind is a bed with drawn curtains. Three casts from the antique decorate the bare room. The model's coat and hat lie on the ground (right). On the far left in the foreground a dog urinates against two canvases leaning against the wall
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des connisseurs
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1790?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.191
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Description:
Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image., Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968., and Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
"Mrs. Damer, seated in profile to the left, chisels the posterior of a large and realistic Apollo standing in profile to the left holding a spear, the left arm extended. A little girl (left) in 'profil perdu', gazes at the Apollo in astonishment. On a pedestal (left) are two nude figures, one full-face, the other in quasi-back view, drawn with extreme realism. Beside them (left) is an armless torso on a terminal pillar. These three statues are 'Studies from Nature'. On the right is a bust of a child's head in profile to the left, on a pedestal inscribed 'A Model to make a Boy from'. Beside it lie a book, 'Sketches of Different Parts'. Behind Mrs. Damer (left) is a grinning whole length figure of 'Pan'. There are also two figures on tall pedestals: a Hercules and a headless figure, and a bust. All the figures in the studio are completely nude. Mrs. Damer wears gloves; her mallet is raised to strike her chisel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 29 x 39 cm., and Watermark: countermark, letter V.
Publisher:
Pub. by Wm Holland, Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Pan (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' studios, Sculptors, British, Sculpture, and Spears
"The artist in his studio scratching his head perplexed by a landscape composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1998,1108.13., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with some loss of portions of the text., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 30, 1812, by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth
Subject (Topic):
Painters (Artists), Artists' studios, and Artists' materials
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., False imprint?, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and "Price 1s. done from [the] French"--Following title.
Publisher:
Avec priuilege du Roy
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
A young Macaroni with an elaborate wig and enormous bow at his neck sits in an artist's studio as his portrait is painted by an artist, a caricature of Richard Cosway R.A., with an equally elaborate hair style. Both are fashionably dressed. The artist sits at his easel, his hand filled with paint brushes and an palette; the canvas faces the viewer so that the portrait is visible. On the wall in the background are two portraits, one of another dandy and one of a woman in an elaborate hat; the paintings hang on either side of a round mirror
Alternative Title:
Billy Dimple sitting for his picture
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved by Earlom after drawing by Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Earlier state, without plate number. Cf. No. 4520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: illegible name (2 lines).
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A young Macaroni with an elaborate wig and enormous bow at his neck sits in an artist's studio as his portrait is painted by an artist, a caricature of Richard Cosway R.A., with an equally elaborate hair style. Both are fashionably dressed. The artist sits at his easel, his hand filled with paint brushes and an palette; the canvas faces the viewer so that the portrait is visible. On the wall in the background are two portraits, one of another dandy and one of a woman in an elaborate hat; the paintings hang on either side of a round mirror
Alternative Title:
Billy Dimple sitting for his picture
Description:
Title from item., Engraved by Earlom after drawing by Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Later state, with altered imprint statement and added plate numbering. For an earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, published as the act directs, 25 Sepr. 1772", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.09.25.01.1+, Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers., Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: round mirror -- Portrait paintings -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
BEIN 2010 1620: Stamps with ms. numbers on versos of leaves., Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of six engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Depicts a three-dimensional artist's studio scene with an apprentice grinding colors, one artist at his easel, three artists sketching a classical statue, another artist putting finishing touches on a painting, and two customers being shown canvases for purchase., and Background leaf numbered: 6.
