Caption title., At the foot of the page: Copied from the Telegraph, Thursday January 29, 1795., Satire on William Pitt., Publisher R. Lee from other imprints at this address and sign., and Imperfect: imprint shaved at foot with loss. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
And sold at the Tree of Liberty, No. 2, St. Ann’s Court, Dean Street, Soho
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
Description:
In English., Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript., At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... .", Title from title page., Bookplate of Philip Shirley., Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62., Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square., and Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Volume 2, page 13. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: From a drawing with a pen by Is. Ostade - in possion. of J.T.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Topic):
Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), and Dogs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 95. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Variant (early?) state lacking publication line. For a state with "Publish'd 20th Jany. 1774" scratched in lower left corner of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.819., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 24.8 x 17.1 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 95. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
A French postillion, wearing huge boots, gestures with his arms outspread to the right
Description:
Title and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from signature on later state: H.B. f., Early state, before background elements, printmaker's signature, and figure's sleeve decoration added in drypoint. For a later state with these additions, see no. 4746 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
"Cavalry in battle; a mounted soldier shooting a man off his horse in foreground, a fallen horse and rider at his feet; battle raging in background, a tower to the right, and in distance on left a bridge."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed with printmaker's initials in lower right corner of design. Tentatively attributed to Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith in the British Museum online catalogue., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0711.1029., and Printed on J. Whatman paper watermarked '1810'.
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate has been reduced with the text eliminated, leaving only traces of the first line of text
Description:
Title, date, and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 16.3 cm, on sheet 23.1 x 19.8 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 60 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
A collection of five botanical drawings, one with two hummingbirds (Lampornis calosoma) and twenty botanical prints (some proof state) by James Sowerby
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Housed in two solander boxes, with drawings in Box 1 and prints no.1-9. Box 2 contains prints nos. 12-17 and two unnumbered prints.