A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
The Time. Pl. 1st
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., "Price 6d.", and On page 292 in volume 3. Plate mark 6.4 x 6.6 at top, on sheet 27.3 x 19.3 cm.
A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
The Time. Pl. 1st
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., and "Price 6d."
Portrait of Orazio Gentileschi (1563-639), Pisan-born painter, whose style was influenced by Caravaggio after they met in 1600. Gentileschi moved to London in 1626 at the invitation of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, the favourite and chief minister of Charles I from whom he received a pension
Alternative Title:
Orazio Gentileschi
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 113., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title devised by curator., Copy of engraving by Lucas Vorsterman after Anthony van Dyke for van Dyke's Iconographie., In lower right corner: Hoffman 1755. Signature may be misreading of Vorsterman on plate which incorporates monogram in spelling., Place of production based on Vorsterman's country of residence., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
First image, 'Painting after life' shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning against the screen. Beside the 'artist' is a box of paints and artist supplies and Second image, 'Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!', shows a skeleton (right) seated on a rock with his head resting in his hands, elbows on his knees as he stares at two shipwrecked sailors (left) on a beach
Alternative Title:
Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!
Description:
Each print titled below., Lewis Walpole Library: On the verso: an autograph letter from Ebenezer Gerard in Liverpool to Samuel Taylor Liverpool, dated 1826 February 5, in reference to "Prose by a poet" (by Montgomery James) which he compares to his own efforts since his illness, with the address incorporating watercolor and rebus material., Painting after life referencing Hogarth?, and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait of Paul van Somer (1576-1621), Flemish painter and printmaker
Alternative Title:
Paul van Somer
Description:
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756., Title from item., and Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p.92.
"Portrait of Philippe de Champaigne, after the painter's self-portrait; half-length, turned to the right, with left hand on chest and right hand holding a parchment inscribed with the date '1668'; landscape and view of Brussels in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity. See Bénézit.
"Portrait in Van Dyck dress, reclining on steps turned in profile to left, with his knees bent and legs drawn up, right hand at his breast, looking at the viewer, swathed in a cloak with a plumed, broad-brimmed hat, with a book labelled 'Vita Di Rubens' at the foot of a column to left; after a self-portrait."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Richardus Cosway Armiger R.A.
Description:
Title from text below image., Early state, with title in light scratched lettering. For a later state with title lettering strengthened, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1224., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1876,1209.145., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 390 (leaf numbered '6' 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:
Publish'd as the act directs March 20th, 1786, by Mno. Bova & E. Diemar, No. 114 Strand
Drawing of John Riley (1646-1691), fashionable English portrait painter
Description:
Title from the inscription in ink, on top of sheet., Inscription in pencil on verso: Mr. Riley painted this himself. Its in [the] possession of Mr. Leigh in Adlington in. 56170., "R" stamped on verso, lower right with "3/6" written in pencil above., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Riley in: Anecdotes of painting in England ... / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1762], v. 3, opp. p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
