Half-length, oval portrait of John Cambell, 2nd Duke of Argyle, Field Marshal and statesman. Created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1735
"Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--Br...
Alternative Title:
Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
Subject (Topic):
Philosophers, Statesmen, British, Putti, and Scepters
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 675); head and shoulders to front, facing and eyes to right, wearing plain coat and frill; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Charles James Fox
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published April 2, 1812, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
"Portrait of James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont, half-length against background of cloudy sky, in profile to left, wearing queue wig, neckerchief, sash over uniform with star and epaulette."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable James Earl of Charlemont, K.P.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jan. 27, 1814, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
"Portrait of Spencer Perceval, bust directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing dark coat and neckerchief tied in a bow, powdered hair; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 15th, 1812, by Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Str., [15 June 1812]
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Call Number:
Osborn d413
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph commonplace book kept by Grenville in a printed commonplace book form. There are extensive notes and comments on his reading of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and of Smith's translator and critic Germain Garnier; on Dugald Stewart's Mora...
Description:
Binding: contemporary green vellum over boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752., Elmsley, Peter, 1773-1825., Garnier, M. 1754-1821. (Germain),, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Smith, Adam, 1723-1790., and Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Classical school of economics, Finance, Public, Political ethics, Production (Economic theory), Wealth, Statesmen, Economic conditions, and Politics and government
"Portrait standing three-quarter length with his right hand inside his coat, holding papers in his left hand, head turned in three-quarter profile to left; wearing dark suit, white cravat and his hair short, with long sideburns; pillar behind at left....
Alternative Title:
Right Honble. G. Canning, M.P. and Right Honourable George Canning, M.P.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; alternative title from lettered state.
