Volume 4, opposite page 426. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Francis Grose; whole length, standing, facing the front, looking to the left, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Copy of a print by Bartolozzi after Nathaniel Hone, published by S. Hooper in 1787 as the frontispiece to Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, and London review, v. 32 (July 1797), opposite page 3., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge and periodical name from top edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1853,0112.2119., "European magazine"--Above image., Window mounted to 21.5 x 13.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 426 in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
"Six French émigrés are grouped at the roadside beside a signpost (right) pointing (left) to 'London' and (right) to 'Dover'. A lean and elderly woman holding a clipped poodle stands with her left hand in the arm of a man wearing a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade, and a long coat reaching almost to his ankles; he holds a tasselled cane. Next him is a stout man wearing a long cloak, and a boy or dwarfish man. On the right are two women holding large muffs. A second clipped poodle runs beside them. In the background a coach (right) inscribed 'London Dover Canterbury' is driving towards London with outside passengers; one, a sailor, waves his hat. The gable end of a cottage (left) and trees complete the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "617" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1st, 1790.
Call Number:
790.05.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A student (an Etonian) with a walking stick under his arm and hands in his pocket walks to the right. He is very thin, has long hair, and wears a large bow at his neck
Alternative Title:
From Eton
Description:
Title etched below image., Originally issued in 1776. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Caricature of man facing left wearing a sword, large wig, and tricorne, his left hand on hip and in his right a cane. Flies buzz before his head. One of a series of 4 caricatures, this one is meant to represent "a well-known M.D., the last remaining of the old school."
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
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Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 30 x 19.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on verso of leaf 76 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted on page 96.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
Leaf 53. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men ride in profile to the right. The one in front is fashionably dressed with a cockaded hat, in his left hand is a cane. The forelegs of the horse are raised as if galloping, but both hind legs are on the ground. The man behind, who is partly cut off by the margin, wears a round cap and is perhaps the servant of the other. His horse appears to be walking. A wall, above which are trees, is indicated behind the riders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Neck or nothing
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., and Watermark (partially trimmed): Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Leaf 53. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men ride in profile to the right. The one in front is fashionably dressed with a cockaded hat, in his left hand is a cane. The forelegs of the horse are raised as if galloping, but both hind legs are on the ground. The man behind, who is partly cut off by the margin, wears a round cap and is perhaps the servant of the other. His horse appears to be walking. A wall, above which are trees, is indicated behind the riders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Neck or nothing
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., Second of two plates on leaf 53., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
