"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 34 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Probably based on G. Cruikshank's 'Boney's Meditations . . .', British Museum Satires No. 12593 (1815), an adaptation of Gillray's 'Gloria Mundi', British Museum Satires No. 6012. The place of Napoleon is taken by George IV (right) who stands on the globe, staggering back from the rays of the sun which contains (in place of his own head) a bust portrait of the Queen (left). He repeats a parody of Milton's lines from 'Paradise Lost': "--To Thee, To Thee, I call!!! but with no friendly Voice & add thy Name oh Queen!! To tell thee how I hate those beams that bring to my Rememberance from what state I'm fallen." On the globe is a map with lines of latitude and longitude; the King's left foot is on a frontier between 'England' and 'Hanover' (towards which he staggers), as if to suggest that he will retire to Germany, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13974. A cherub flies above the Queen holding up a ribbon inscribed 'Innocent', and frowning down at the King. A woman resembling Mrs. Quentin in British Museum Satires No. 13897, emerging from behind the globe, tugs anxiously at the King's coat-tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Address to the Sun
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Quentin, Georgina
Title from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection, website viewed 7/25/2023: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c79rckbf, G. Baldwin was based at 77 Walworth Road, London. It is still in business at 173 Walworth Road., Product claims: The medicine of nature. A life invigorating remedy for nervousness debility consumption insomnia lowness of spirits., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
G. Baldwin
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Insomnia, Depression, Mental, Tuberculosis, and Putti
Opposite page 131. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on reference within design to Richard Cumberland's Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain ..., first published in 1782., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably an illustration to a book or periodical., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Truth -- Literature -- Cherubs -- Symbols: Art -- Reading angel., Mounted to 28 x 22 cm., and Bound in opposite page 131 in an extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811., and Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668.
"Interior view of the Royal Exchange, showing three sides, a tower rising in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of plate, within a banner held by a putto in the sky., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Restrike (probably retouched) of a print originally published in 1647 as part of a series of eight. See Adams., Approximate publication date from Adams, who notes that printsellers such as Laurie & Whittle were selling impressions on wove paper of the prints in this series at the turn of the 19th century. Decades earlier, the publishers Sayer and Bennett had offered impressions "on very good paper" in their 1775 catalogue, writing that the original plates had been "carefully cleaned" (that is, the worn lines had likely been re-engraved)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 20.7 x 27.1 cm., and Mounted after page 436 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Plate [119] 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'; diagram showing the rectos and versos of ten coins, on a decorative plaque surmounted by a cherub holding a shield with unicorn and tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coins of Mary and her two husbands
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [119] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [196] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A female figure in classical dress, sitting on rocks on the left, drawing, watched by another who gestures behind towards a ruined building and plinth, while cherubs play with armour on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Very beautiful plate from a picture by T. Stothard, for the use of those who would wish to bind up the plates, coins, medals, &c. &c. by themselves
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [196] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Dominichini Zampieri, 6 pedes et 10 pollices alta, 5 pedes lata, in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Dominichino Zampieri, 6 feet 10 inches high, by 5 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Trade card for the Italian-born printmaker James Anthony Minasi (1776-1865), who was born in Calabria and became a Bartolozzi pupil after coming to England. Illustrated with an angelic winged putto concentratiing on a print book
Alternative Title:
Drawing taught by J. Minasi, in the style of F. Bartolozzi ...
