"View of Bermondsey Abbey, taken from the steeple of the church of St Mary Magdalen; the graveyard of the church in the foreground, the manor house and related buildings next to graveyard with gardens behind and to the left; fields surrounding and in the distance"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
General view of the remains of Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Bermondsey was originally an alien priory of Cluniuc Monks founded by Aylwin Child, anno 1082 ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Plate from: Londina illustrata : graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools ... London: R. Wilkinson, 1819-25.
Publisher:
Published 27th September 1820, by Robert Wilkinson, 125 Fenchurch Street
A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Alternative Title:
New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:
Title from print in upper right., Date based on publisher's years of activity at 53 Fleet Street., Later state of a print, a composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio visus., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., Description based on imperfect impression; impression lacks plate with docket title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
Description:
Title from print in upper right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of docket title and associated text. Perimeter of the design has been heavily inked in black, obscuring all but the images of the prints. The gold coin has been decorated with gold lead and the background of this print is also heavily inked in black., A composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Geo. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
View of the ruins, probably St. Austin's Abbey in Canterbury. A man, a woman, and a child are seen in the foreground
Alternative Title:
View of St. Austin's Monastery
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date written after title, in a different hand., and Mounted opposite page 100 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Hentzner, P. A journey into England. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1757.
publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 15 July 1746.
Call Number:
Topos It88 no. 4++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an overgrown, ruined, domed classical building, on the left, in a field with uneven ground, bushes and trees, with a house to the right, a statue of a man wearing a laurel wreath on a pedestal in the right foreground and figures, including a boy lying on a piece of fallen masonry to the left, an old man walking towards him and pointing back at a woman who carries a basket on her head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered "3" in lower left corner.
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined chapel, with a large square tower on the left and a door left ajar into the apse to the right, overgrown, with small trees and bushes in the yard in front of it, woods on the right and the corner of another building visible above the garden wall on the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "II" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The front half of a chapel, seen from the side, with a low wall to the left, trees, and a structure in the distance to the right; below the image are two columns of verse describing the history of the structure"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., Text below title: The manor of Stanton came into the family Harcourt by the marriage of Rob. de Harcourt Knt. ..., and Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined building on the right with a pyramidical roof and a small square turret on the near left corner, with other buildings extending from it on the right and a large tree in the foreground, a barrow in the left foreground on a broad path leading to a wooden gate with a ruined church and trees beyond"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "IV" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
A river and rocks in the foreground; the abbey and palace of Dunfermline in the distance; trees throughout the scene
Alternative Title:
Abbey & Palace of Dunfermline and Abbey and Palace of Dumfermline
Description:
Title etched below image. and Titled 'A Copy of ditto, coloured.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 1, 1792, by F. Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street
A broadside on London Bridge and its partial destruction by fire on 11 April 1758, with an account on the history of bridges on the site and an engraving of the view of London and the River Thames, with the remains of London Bridge in the centre above; engraved title above and letterpress title and text in two columns below
Alternative Title:
Chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark ...
Description:
Title from etched text above the design., Letterpress caption title below image and above the two columns of text: A chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark, 'till the late conflagration of the temporary bridge, the 11th of April, 1758., Titled 'An exact View of London Bridge since the conflagration of the late temporary Bridge, 11th of April, 1758: with an historical account of ditto, sold by W. Herbert' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., "Price one shilling plain. Colour'd eighteen pence.", Plate mark: 22 x 35 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of price statement from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 57 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by William Herbert, under the Piazzas, on the remains of London-Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Thames River (England), England, London, London., and London (England)
