Volume 2, page 46. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
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still image
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"A woman reclining on a bed at left with her breasts exposed, at right a man lying in the arms of an angel; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
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Genii takes beddridin Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus and Genii takes bedridden Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus
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Title from text below image.
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Publish'd Decr. 23d, 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
Volume 2, after page 340. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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1
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still image
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"An altered copy of British Museum Satires No. 10389. The two principal figures are substantially the same, but Mrs. Fitzherbert's expression is less subtle; she looks down at her charge with an exulting smile. The feathers in her hair are set in a fi...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A mon...
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Title from text in image.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
Between two large pedestals, the one to the left topped with the head of George II, the one to the right with a sitting figure of George III, the Coalition ministers fall to the ground, their balance upset by a large platform, "New method of executing...
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Title from item.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Pedestals, Angels, and Clothing & dress
An invitation to accompany the Society of Painters at St Lukes Feast on Thursday 24 November, 1687 in Painter Stayner's Hall; with a cartouche illustrated with an allegory of the arts with painting in the center, with winged Fame holding a laurel crow...
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Sr., you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ... and Sir, you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ...
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Title from item.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Painters.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Artists' materials, Angels, Artists, and Putti
Plate [132] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
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1
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still image
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"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; an angel with torch grabbing the arm of a veiled figure who creeps towards a pile with crown, staff, sword, scroll and book in the right foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
