In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:
Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
"Portrait of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, three-quarter length, standing to right in front of a large rock, holding a baton in his right hand, the left on the shoulder of his grandson."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state of the plate., Early state without title. For a later state with title, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.1640., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark and printmaker's signature mostly erased from sheet. Missing text inferred from that on a later state of the plate in the British Museum., Possibly engraved after the watercolor drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 112 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1585-1646,, Howard, Philip Thomas, 1629-1694,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Description:
Title from later, lettered states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Proof. In pencil in Steeven's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Title, printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., Date of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Portrait of Thomas Wood, standing whole-length directed slightly to right, his right hand tucked into his coat, left hand at his side, a bunch of flowers at left lapel, in an ordered garden with windmills in the background; after Ogborne; unlettered proof before margin cleared
Description:
Title, artist and publication information from Chaloner Smith. and Engraved from a painting by David Ogborne. Cf. Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Publish'd March the 1st 1774, by John Thane, printseller and medalist in Gerrard Street, Soho
"Nearly whole-length, sitting, directed to the right, facing and looking to the front, right hand resting on the arm of his chair, left hand on book, open in front of him, wearing mantel with fur trimming; scratched letter proof before title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Printmaker's and artist's names, date, and place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.879., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Full length portrait of an elderly and toothless John Wilkes, in hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt and riding boots
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Another state has the number 'XIV' in upper left corner., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.
Full length portrait of an elderly and toothless John Wilkes, in hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt and riding boots
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XIV" in upper left corner., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 12.9 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 4 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Wilkes.
"Portrait of William Beckford after Reynolds (Mannings 149); head and shoulders facing to left, in cravat and plain coat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later proof state
Description:
Title from published state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later states. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.:1876,1209.45., Early proof of a plate, probably a book illustration, later issued with the publication line: London, 1835, Published by R. Bentley. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 21., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 34.6 x 24.9 cm.