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2.
- Creator:
- Thomas Houseworth & Co.
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1870-1880.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 387
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Studio portraits of entertainers created by Thomas Houseworth & Co. that comprise a portion of the Houseworth's Celebrities, ca. 1870-1880. Images include female burlesque actresses and dancers Viola Clifton, Lizzie McCall, Lulu Mortimer, and Mabel Santley, while other portraits depict actress Noko McCabe; actress and singer Emelie Melville; and acrobat and circus entrepreneur Edward W. Orrin
- Description:
- Letterpress captions on mounts.
- Subject (Name):
- Clifton, Viola., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., McCall, Lizzie., Melville, Emelie., Mortimer, Lulu., Orrin, Edward W., Santley, Mabel., and Thomas Houseworth & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Acrobats, Actresses, Burlesque (Theater), Dancers, Entertainers, and Singers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Houseworth's Celebrities
3.
- Creator:
- Smith, John, 1659-1715, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1706]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait seen almost whole-length, seated slightly to right playing lute, head turned to face l, wearing loose dress and her hair partly up; tree behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Verse in two lines and two columns below title reads: Were there on earth another voice like thine, another hand, so blest with skill divine, the late afflicted world some hopes might have, and harmony recall thee from the grave., Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 44 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- J. Smith
- Subject (Name):
- Hunt, Arabella, 1662-1705,
- Subject (Topic):
- Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Arabella Hunt 1705 dyed December 26th / [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1700?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits C951 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Letitia Cross standing three-quarter length to front beside flowers, her hands crossed, head turned slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing loose dress and pearls in her hair, with veil, curtain, arches and statues in garden seen behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4511., and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden
- Subject (Name):
- Cross, Letitia, 1682?-1737,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, British, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Cross [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 21.4 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 23.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 34 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Roman, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The charmers of the age [graphic]
6.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 50.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Roman, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The charmers of the age [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.05.30.07
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 34. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singing with a distressed expression, face somewhat contorted, eyes closed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 33 x 25.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Roman, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The charmers of the age [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1760]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.35
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre., and Description in an unidentified hand added below image on mounting sheet; window mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
- Publisher:
- F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
- Subject (Name):
- Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fun upon fun, or, The first and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought no joke like a true joke, come, who'l [sic] fish in my fishpond? [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1760]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 Sa5 760
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 12. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre.
- Publisher:
- F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
- Subject (Name):
- Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fun upon fun, or, The first and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought no joke like a true joke, come, who'l [sic] fish in my fishpond? [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.104
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman stands in a city street singing, a tambourine in her one hand, as a man with a satchel peers from behind
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from imprint from the book., Plate from: Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, Singers, Street entertainers, and Tambourines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ballad singer [graphic].
