"View of Greenwich Hospital from the River Thames; a variety of boats in foreground including the back-end of a large sailing ship on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e de l'Hôpital Royale de Greenwich
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0710.4900., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number mostly erased from upper right corner of sheet. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1804., and Leaf 18 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Thames River (England),, England, and London.
"A coachman in a single-breasted coat reaching to his boot-tops stands looking to the left. His cylindrical hat has an irregular brim. A team-whip leans against his left shoulder and he holds the end of the lash between the tips of the fingers of both hands."--British Museum online catalogue and "Dick Vaughan, the driver of the Cambridge Telegraph, a famous coach, was known as Hell-Fire-Dick, and was 'a favourite companion of University fashionables'."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 22 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Groups of fashionably dressed ladies, gentlemen, and children stroll in the shade of large trees in front of a pavillion with a large central bay decorated with Oriental archictectural elements and flanked on each side by a crescent of smaller bays furnished with tables
Alternative Title:
Vüe du Temple de Comus dans le Jardins de Vauxhall
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '69' in upper right corner., "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament.", and Originally published by Robert Sayer in 1751.
Publisher:
Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Men, women and children, many on horseback, gathered under large, spreading trees in a park, greeting the Prince and Princess of Wales, who descend from their carriage at the edge of the river to right, while the royal barge lies waiting on the water; after T Sandby."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of nearly identical composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Riviere de la Virginie, du batteau Chinois &c. dans le Grand Parc de Windsor
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., For the original drawing by Thomas Sandby, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0328.303. See also the print by Paul Sandby, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.2556, Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of his Majesty's gardens of Kensington, Hampton-Court, Windsor and Kew, beautifully engraved", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87-88, no. 11., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., and Leaf 53 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Windsor (Berkshire, England), Windsor Great Park (England),, Virginia Water (England : Lake),, and England.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, and Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772,
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Lakes & ponds, Barges, Sailboats, and Carriages & coaches
publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 15 July 1746.
Call Number:
Topos It88 no. 4++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an overgrown, ruined, domed classical building, on the left, in a field with uneven ground, bushes and trees, with a house to the right, a statue of a man wearing a laurel wreath on a pedestal in the right foreground and figures, including a boy lying on a piece of fallen masonry to the left, an old man walking towards him and pointing back at a woman who carries a basket on her head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered "3" in lower left corner.
"View from the river of a palace at Greenwich, built by Henry V and destroyed in the Civil Wars; in foreground to left a small boat with a sail enters the picture, to its left a rowing boat passes the palace"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ancient royal palace called Placentia, in East Greenwich
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from the series "Vetusta monumenta," published by the revived Society of Antiquaries in London from 1747 to 1835. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Vol. II. Plate XXV"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, April 23, 1767, Sumpt. Societ. Antiquar. Londini
"View of the garden with figures promenading at the banks of the river, a building with lantern tower at left, figures punting before a footbridge in the centre, the river turning to right in the distance"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Veuë de la derriere façade de la Cassina, et d'une partie de la Riviere Serpentine, terminée par le cascade dans les jardins du Comte de Burlington, a Chiswick
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street, John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet-Street
View of the ball at St. James on his Mjesties birth night, View of the ball at St. James on his Majesties birth night, and View of the ball at St. James on his Majesty's birth night
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy in reverse of : A view of the ball at St. James's on her Majesty's birth night., Dated "1770" in an unidentified hand in lower right corner below title., and Mounted.