"Double portrait of Charles V and of Henry VIII, bust-length, bearded, wearing hat and contemporary costume, Charles wearing the order of the Golden Fleece."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
King Henry the Eighth and the Emperor Charles the Fifth
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date of publication based on the year that G.P. Harding was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547,, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from the first line of verse on the item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six images in vignettes illustrating verse etched in center of sheet., Twenty lines of verse: King Jesus batters with a heavy rod, his unrelenting, and disloyal foes ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: churches -- Emblems: lamb -- British Lion -- Pagan rites -- Reference to George II., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '7' in upper right corner., 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: Kingston Hotel. Here are found, an English land-lord, and lady, -excellent accommodation, great attention, moderate charges ..., Second sheet attached to print 11 x 17 cm., and Watermark: C Ansell 1818.
Title engraved below image., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Miserden. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [178-?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '16' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Effigies
Title from item., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: country vicar -- Customs: tithing -- Architectural details: Georgian fac̦ade -- Emblems: peacock as vanity -- Birds: peacock -- Villages -- Buildings: country church -- Jokes -- Food: fruit -- Swaddled babies -- Turnstiles -- Bundle of wheat.
Twelve men sit crowded along a dining table consuming their meagre fare. Behind on the wall is a painting of a building signed "Versailles" and a wall clock with words "a Paris" on its face. The door frame is inscribed "Louis le grande."
Description:
Title from item., State with the original imprint burnished from the plate. Publication date from watermark. Original publication information from an impression in the Library of Congress: Pubd. March 15, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: view of Versailles -- Furniture: dining table -- Furnishings: wall clocks -- Domestic service: cooks., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Lady Ailesbury's invitation card designed by Bentley: with decorated border, three candles in candlesticks on the left and a teapot on the right. With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany
Alternative Title:
Lady Ailesbury's compts. to and desires the favour ..., Lady Ailesbury's compliments to and desires the favour ..., and Lady Ailesbury's invitation card
Description:
Title from etched text., Formerly mounted on leaf 14 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., The Lewis Walpole Library: With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany., and With ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Designed by Mr. Bentley.
"Portrait of Lady Arabella Seymour, born Stuart; three-quarter length, slightly to the left; one hand resting on table to the left with two books behind; wearing pearls that reach down to her waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Arabella Stuart
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a proof state; for a later state with title re-etched and plate number added in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Possibly engraved after the drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 124 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.
Title from the inscription within image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: Lady Huntingdon's chapel -- Interiors: Lady Huntigdon's chapel, Bath -- Allusion to Durham -- Allusion to Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, 1707-1791 -- Congregations: sleepy congregations -- Sermons -- Lighting: candlelight -- Pocket watches -- Clergy: preaching parson -- Bible: altered quotation from Psalm 39 -- Ear-trumpets -- Allusion to George Whitfield, 1714-1770.