"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Portraits C642 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 36.7 x 25.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge., Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Mrs. H. Johnston as Princess Zorilda in M.G. Lewis' Timour the Tartar, in full custume, astride a rearing, white horse
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint. Imprint from copy at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Publisher:
Pub. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Nannette, and Lewis, M. G. 1775-1818. (Matthew Gregory),
"Portrait of Mrs Jordan as Peggy in 'The Country Girl' after Romney, standing three-quarter length with her hands clasped together in front of a doorway and column; state after title changed, before engraver's name altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Second state, with title altered from "Mrs. Jordan in the Character of the Romp". For the earlier state, see Yale Center for British Art accession no.: B1970.3.341.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24th, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Title from text below image., Several lines of a song sung to the tune "The young may moon" engraved below image: A dandy beau is all the go, so I resolved to change my plan ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1815.
Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love., Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner., Mounted on page 14 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink directly below title: Miss Walpole the actress.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love., Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner., Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.9 x 18.2 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "13".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
Subject (Topic):
Theatrical productions, Actors, Sets (Architectural elements), and Balconies
