A half-length portrait in profile of a clergyman wearing spectacles and a wig. He holds a stack of paper in his right hand, while his left hand is raised with his finger pointing upward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sitter tentatively identified as Edward Bearcroft., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Clergy, Eyeglasses, Lawyers, and Wigs
Title supplied by cataloger., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and Framed in paper: 328 x 249 mm.
Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar.", Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders., and With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from annotation in ink on separate oval strip of paper mounted around portrait., Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 168 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius of that Good Man and Upright Senator \ Sir George Saville Bart \ Hovers with anxiety over The Tomb; not without Hopes, that his Countrymen \ may e're it be too late, see the Necessity of Peace, - the Improbability of \ the Present Ministers making it, - & the Benefit which would result, from a Temperate Reformation of those Abuses, "from which {to use his own memorable words) \ it was notorious, that all our Calamities Sprung."!!!' Below: 'Fuimus Troes, fuet [sic] Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum. Virgil Here lie the Remains of the \ - Requisition, - \ The last Hopes of the Independent Gentlemen of Yorkshire; \ in full Confidence \ that when Corruption shall have ceased to prey upon the \ Human Frame, that it will rise again to \ - Immortal Glory.- \ Reader, \ You will no longer doubt the just Cause or upright \ Intention of this Requisition, when you learn, that \ the Merchants of Leeds, its greatest Enemies, have \ Thought that an Elegant Monument should be dedicated \ to it's \ Memory. \ "Your Cause of Sorrow must not be measured by his \ "Worth, for then it hath no End." Shakespere Mackbeth \ "Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut Modus \ "Tam chari Capitis." Horace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably commissioned by the Yorkshire Reform movement. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: sepulchral monument to George Savile, 8th Bt. -- Literature: Shakespeare's Macbeth, v.8.44 -- Literature: Virgil, Aeneid.