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2.
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1776]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B752 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Trial proof of the portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools; state with face only lightly sketched in, before any lettering
- Description:
- Title from finished state., Title and date from British Museum online catalogue, registration numbers: 10,0610.66., and Ownership stamp on verso in diamond shape frame: E.L.
- Publisher:
- Beauvarlet?
- Subject (Name):
- Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Edme Bouchardon [graphic].
3.
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1776]
- Call Number:
- Portraits B752 no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, half-length, sitting in armchair, head turned to right; in oval frame, on pedestal, with sculptor's tools"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title in image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 10,0610.66., and Ownership stamp on verso, in diamond shape frame: E.L.
- Publisher:
- Beauvarlet?
- Subject (Name):
- Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculptors and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Edme Bouchardon sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, professeur en con Académie de peinture & de sculpture, decédé le 27 Juillet 1762 / [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin, 1731-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of French playwright Molière, after Bourdon; three-quarter length, sitting at desk, directed to left, hands folded on table, wearing long curled wig and loose-fitting gown; in rectangular frame, with spread wings and ivy in upper part, and attributes of comedy in lower part. ... Ribbon at bottom with verses [in Latin] by Horat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Alternative Title:
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
- Description:
- Title from from text within cartouche at top of image., Variant state, lacking imprint statement and with verses from Chenier engraved below image instead of a dedication. For a different state with the imprint "A Paris chez le Sr De Mailly, Quay de l'Ecole près le Louvre Avec Privilége du Roy", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.236., Place and date of publication from the Philadelphia Museum of Art online collection database, accession no.: 1943-50-23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and multilated in lower left corner, resulting in partial loss of artist's name., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 187 (leaf numbered '228' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Molière, 1622-1673,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dramatists, Actors, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > J.B. Poquelin de Moliere née a Paris en 1620, M. le 17 Fevrier 1673 / [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Bonvallet, L. (Louis), approximately 1748-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.01.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in rural France: A farmer holding onto a plow drawn by a team of oxen, shepherds with their sheep, and a man fishing in a stream, all look up in astonishment at the air balloon overhead. This print references the third flight of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, his second with American John Jeffries and the first flight over the English Channel
- Alternative Title:
- Premier passager aerien de la mer and Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, pensioné du roi, citoyen de Calais
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Dedication etched above title: Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, Pensioné de Roi, Citoyen de Calais., "Avec Privilege du Roi"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Six lines of verse, signed "Basset" at the end, in two columns below title: Le Pécheur qui sur l'eau tenait son bras tendu ...
- Publisher:
- Chez Basset rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809. and Jeffries, John, 1745-1819.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloon ascensions, Balloonists, English, French, Balloons (Aircraft), Farmers, Fishermen, Ox teams, Rural areas, and Shepherds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Apparition du globe aerostatique de Mr. Blanchard, entre Calais et Boulogne parti de Douvres le 7 de Janvier 1785 à 1 heure 1/2 [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Probably an earlier state of a print in the British Museum with the imprint "Publish'd 11th March 1778." Cf. no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 49. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A full-length view of a young, French macaroni in profile facing left, stands beside a donkey whose reins he holds in his right hand. On the left, a dog jumps at the pair
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Mounted on page 49 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 22.4 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 28.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le fameux Blaise Lacoste, Limosin. F.R.S. [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.01.01.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Page 49. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A full-length view of a young, French macaroni in profile facing left, stands beside a donkey whose reins he holds in his right hand. On the left, a dog jumps at the pair
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.5 x 20.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le fameux Blaise Lacoste, Limosin. F.R.S. [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 774.01.20.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a postillion striding to right holding his whip dangling before him."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Postillions, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Whips, and Boots
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A French postillion] [graphic]
