"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 91 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 and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 41.8 x 56.2 cm., Annotation in pencil following title: Engrav'd from a private plate of Mr. Walpole's., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
publisch'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Douane de Londres et d'une partie de la Tour prise de la Thamise
Description:
Title from caption below image; French title also etched in reverse above image., Possibly a copy of a print with a similar title published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles and Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Heny. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue., "No. 22."--Upper right corner., and "50" written in ink in contemporary hand above plate mark on recto; "16 Serie Mo 4 [?]" written on verso.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 178 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) and Castles & palaces
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 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.
"View of the gardens with pagoda in middle distance, figures in boat on lake in foreground with footbridge at left, temple of Arethusa at right and trees in left foreground with sheep grazing below"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines below image: They go from the devil to Court, and from the Court to the devil again., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Demons -- Female dress: petticoat -- Allusion to the Princess of Wales -- Games: soap bubbles -- Litearture: quotation from Jonathan Swift., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Social satire: a crowd of invalids and loungers on the North Parade in Bath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Joshua Kirby Baldrey from unverified data in local card catalog record., Published between 1780-1790; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.797., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bath: North Parade Street -- Prepoint Street -- City buildings -- Walking staves -- Parasols -- Pavement -- Candy in baskets -- Street vending -- Iron fences -- Female costume, 1785 -- Male costume, 1785., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 272 x 412 mm., and Data in local record (attribution to John Kirby; 1795 date) from Joan Sussler, Lewis Walpole Library.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, City & town life, Terraces, Crowds, Staffs (Sticks), Wheelchairs, People with disabilities, Umbrellas, Wheelbarrows, and Street vendors
"Social satire: a crowd of invalids and loungers on the North Parade in Bath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Joshua Kirby Baldrey from unverified data in local card catalog record., Published between 1780-1790; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.797., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: North Parade Street -- Prepoint Street -- City buildings -- Walking staves -- Parasols -- Pavement -- Candy in baskets -- Street vending -- Iron fences -- Female costume, 1785 -- Male costume, 1785.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, City & town life, Terraces, Crowds, Staffs (Sticks), Wheelchairs, People with disabilities, Umbrellas, Wheelbarrows, and Street vendors