Portrait drawing of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan; bust length, in profile to the right; wearing a red hat
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with three other drawings on page 83 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., Plate from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Secondary sheet with letterpress text mounted on print: The packet is quitting Dover "with fav'ring gale," the cargo, on deck, in a state of "blissful ignorance" ...
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: From Paris. A party are posting to Calais, -and the passengers of the Dilligence are stretching their own limbs and relieving the horses' up a hill ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
Title from the first line of verse., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Originaly imprint and printmaker's name below image mostly burnished out., Publication date in an unverified card catalog record: 1700?, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: From cares that man is never free, Who sets his heart upon his riches ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms.
A drawing of an Gothic chimneypiece with mantel. On the verso of this drawing is a small pencil sketch of a portion of a chimneypiece
Description:
Title inscribed below design in unidentified hand., Signed by the artist with his monogram in lower right corner of sheet: RB., Date based on creation date of album., and Formerly mounted on the lower half of leaf 27 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Depiction of the tomb in Canterbury Cathedral of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Probably an illustration to an unidentified volume., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "P. 489"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 201 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., and Note in Thomas Kirgate's hand below title: From which the chimney in the Holbein room is taken.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Warham, William, 1450?-1532. and Canterbury Cathedral
Portrait head of Henry, Infante of Portugal; turned slightly right; with short hair and a long beard
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand., Statement of responsibility continues below title in the same hand, also in ink., Above image is a possibly unrelated inscription in the same hand, in ink over pencil: Engraved from an authentic copy from the Royal Printing House at Lisbon., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., On verso is a trimmed manuscript note in ink: America. Vol. 1. 50. [...]., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
"A Country Fair, with a man in the left selling sculpted figurines, food on the right getting falling out of the fire; above a man on the right shouts 'Millar's miraculous Stratagens' while another on the left retorts 'Cole's queer Whims & Oddities'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Publication date conjectured from costume.
A male cat standing erect on his hind legs and fashionably in a morning coat and holding a top hat rests his left paw on the shoulder of a female cat dressed in women's puffed-sleeved dress and wearing a cap. She is seated in a chair and sewing; beside her is a sewing case on a pedestal side table. Both wear serious expressions
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Animals in human situations, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
published as the act directs Mayth [sic] 25, 1780.
Call Number:
780.05.25.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sitter identified in British Museum catalogue as possibly Gaetano Manini, painter, of Milan, Italy, or Magnini, a picture dealer.