Portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby after John Hoppner. Abercromby is half-length directed slightly to right, looking away to left, right-gloved hand at his waist; he wears a military uniform with epaulettes, sash, star, and a white stock
Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, M.P. for Steyning, Susses and a Baronet, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket
Description:
Title from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson, print seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane
"Lewes, in profile to the right, sits astride a ram which is eating a bunch of grapes. Across the plate is etched: 'The Lordly Knight, The Coalition bite, Now takes the earliest hour To taste the grapes, - before they're sour.' Beneath the des...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 346); three-quarter length, seated to left at table with plans, eyes to front, holding crayon towards his mouth, curtain and view of Somerset House behind; proof before letters and some reworking, but with scratched ...
Description:
Title from from the British Museum online catalogue, registration numbers: 1902,1011.2277.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1780, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street
King George III is standing with a woman holding a parasol (possibly Herschel's sister and assistant Caroline) observing two men operating a massive 40 ft. reflecting telescope suspended in a complex framework of wooden supports, cables, pulleys, and ...
Description:
Title, date, and artist supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Slough (England)
Subject (Name):
Herschel, William, 1738-1822. and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Reflecting telescopes, Telescopes, Astronomical instruments, and Astronomy
