"Portrait of Lady Mary Hervey of Ickworth; bust length in profile to right; wearing cap; in oval within rectangular panel; after CN Cochin; private plate; scratched letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mary Lady Hervey
Description:
Title from text in image., Mounted on page 62 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., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.5 x 12.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait of Lady Mary Hervey of Ickworth; bust length in profile to right; wearing cap; in oval within rectangular panel; after CN Cochin; private plate; scratched letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mary Lady Hervey
Description:
Title from text in image. and Matted, with gilt edges on inner frame and red border containing the letter V at bottom. Matte: 365 x 264 mm.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, inferred from other prints on Lord Bute's installation in 1762., Number '6' in title printed in reverse., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Witches" Macbethian witches -- Mythology: Medusa's head -- Literature: altered quotation from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, i.2.80 -- Secret influence -- Emblems: thistle for Scotland., Watermark: Pro patria on the right side of the sheet; countermark G R on the left., and Title written over in contemporary hand.
The opera singer Madamme Banti engages in a jovial conversation with Lord Pembroke. Each holds a wine glass; a decanter sits on the table
Description:
Title from inscription in design., Date suggested by ms. note on mount., Brigitta [Brigida] Banti is the stage-name of Brigida Giorgi., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Pembroke, George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of, 1759-1827
Subject (Topic):
Opera singers, Eating & drinking, and Drinking vessels
"Portrait of Jack Adams, known as "the cunning man of Clerkenwell Green", an astrologer, at a table casting a horoscope, a tobacco pipe tucked into his belt. A woman wearing a torn cap and collar, and over whose head is written "the queene of slutes", stands behind him touching his shoulder asking him to tell her fortune. In the lower right corner, the head and shoulders of a man appear; he holds out his hat with his left hand and with the right offers coins to the astrologer, asking "Is she a princess". On the table, as well as the horoscope on which Adams writes, is an inkwell with another quill, an almanack lettered "Poor Robin's Path to Knowledge" and a horn-book; on the wall behind hangs a medal with the head of a man in a turban; two shelves are partly concealed by a curtain, the top shelf has books and a fool's wand with a horse's head and the shelf below has children's toys, a drum and spinning tops with whips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., According to the British Museum catalogue: According to Stephens the subject is John Carleton who married the notorious imposter Mary Carleton, "the German princess", in 1663., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Adams, Jack, active 1664, and Carleton, John, 1645-
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 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., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Date supplied by cataloger based on subject., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint. Cf. Undated impression in the Library of Congress., Above title motto of Hanover arms: Nec aspera terrent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Guards -- Military uniforms: Guards' bearskin -- Weapons: bayoneted musket -- Street scenes -- Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Mythology: allusion to Mars., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Window mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
"Portrait as a boy, in a landscape walking into the right foreground, wearing a short jacket and shoes with large rosettes, holding a plumed hat in right hand, a greyhound running alongside him on the right; after Ramsay"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and artists' names appear as text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1192., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.