Title from contemporary annotation on Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sitter identified as "Ldy. Cecilia Johnstone" in mss. inscription on verso. and Printmaker, title, and imprint from later statet. Cf. No. 5748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
"Half length sketch portrait of a thin and elderly lady in profile to the left. Her hair is dressed high and decorated with feathers and lace."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
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Publish'd May 18, 1780, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 New Bond Street
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and A variant of no. 5749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
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Publish'd May 18th, 1780, by H. Humphrey, Nr. 18 Nr. 18 [sic] New Bond Street
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Wool sacks.
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Pubd. June 27th 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
"A stout youngish man, fashionably dressed and wearing boots of Hessian pattern, walks in profile to the right, on a flagged pavement. His nose is exaggeratedly Jewish and in the roadway are pigs (left and right) scampering off, only their hind-quarters visible said to indicate the converted Jew."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
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Pubd. May 25th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title assigned by British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue as Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Reference to Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial.
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Publish'd 29th June 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street
Title assigned by the cataloger., Printmaker identified as possibly Gillray signing with James Sayers's initials from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Warren Hastings's trial -- Sheridan's speech at Hastings's trial., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand identifying Sheridan in lower right corner.
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Pubd. June 29, 1789, by [S.]W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The Prince stands in back view, his head turned to the left. His heels are together. His powdered hair or wig has a cockatoo-like crest, worn with a very small queue, round which his coat is thickly frosted with powder, cf. BMSat 8190. His neck, as indicated by his coat-collar, is grotesquely thick, his coat has the bulky sleeves associated with Jean de Bry, see BMSat 9425, with pointed coat-tails. Under his left arm is a cocked hat. The word 'Honi . . .' appears on his garter."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prince of Wales from behind
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Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
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Publish'd March 10th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
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Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
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Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue. and Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
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Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London