Title from caption below image., Place of publication surmised from the fact that half the print's text is in Dutch., Text in image of letter on desk: "To Hon. Cotes Esqr. London.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament 1764; vitgegeeven by Acte van het Parlement
Portrait, whole-length wearing fur-trimmed coat, standing facing front, looking away to right, left hand to hip, leaning with right hand holding quill on a volume which lies on a table to left, beside an ink-tray with a letter on which is written 'The Liberty of all Peers.'
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7363, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith at No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Title from text in image., Text above image: "Engraved for the Universal Magazine.", Publication date surmised from year Wilkes began London mayorship., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Affixed to paper sheet: 361 x 279 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hinton at the King's Arms in Paternoster Row
"Portrait of John Wilkes, whole-length, standing, directed and looking to the left, wearing robes of lord mayor, left hand on hip, right hand pointing to the left; illustration to 'Town & Country', 1769."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication taken from the sitter's known place of activity., and Mounted on paper support: 360 x 280 mm.
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament, 1764.
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length seated three-quarter to left, at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney', a letter addressed 'To Huy. Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 94 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small contemporary annotation in ink, perhaps monogrammatic initials, above printmaker's signature.
"Portrait, bust in an oval frame directed to right, looking ahead of him, wearing a fur-trimmed robe over a waistcoat and frilled cravat, with powdered hair to his ears."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication taken from printmaker's known place of activity., Print composed of two plates: one for image and one for text., and Mounted on paper support: 380 x 282 mm.
"Bust in a feigned oval, three-quarter to left, wearing mayorial robes with fur-lined cloak and chain of office, and a white cravat, looking out of the corner of his eye towards the viewer; after Pine."--British Museum online catalogue
"Portrait, whole-length seated directed to left, looking away to right, wearing fur-trimmed robe and chain of office, gesturing outwards with right hand, left hand holding scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', leaning to right with left elbow on a table littered with papers inculding a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', sword, inkstand and coronet, with plaque showing Hercules defeating the hydra on the wall; reworked state republished after 1775."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable John Wilkes Esqr., Lord Mayor of the City of London
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist tentatively identified as John Dixon in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.10.12., "This appears to be a copy in the same direction of a mezzotint by John Dixon dated 1768"--Curator's comments for an earlier state, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Reworked state, with alterations to both inscription and image. Among the image alterations are the chain around Wilkes's neck being changed into a collar of office; a mace and sword being added to the right; Wilkes's waistcoat having embroidery added; and the tablecloth having a fringe added. For the earlier state published in 1770, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.748., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate numbered "308" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Seated portrait of John Wilkes, holding a scroll marked 'Magna Charta', leaning on a table on which is a copy of his letter 'To the Gentlemen Clergy & Freeholders of the County of Middlesex', and 'Bill of Rights'. A framed painting on the wall behind (left) shows an image of Hercules defeating the Hydra
Description:
Title from text below image., Seemingly a reduced copy of print by John Dixon that was published in 1768 by Carington Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.761. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 35, page 217. For another reduced copy with a different title, also published by Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1489., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 22 x 13 cm.