Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Below title: In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. Henry V.
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on the reproduction in Paston. See Social caricature in the eighteenth century, by Paston, 1905., Attributed to Mortimer in contemporary hand on verso. Also added in contemporary hand in the lower left corner of design: EP., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: The powers of the pen / by Evan Lloyd. London, 1765., Early state, with the face of the president turned away from the viewer, of No. 4247 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dungeon -- Reviewers -- Birds: owl -- Serpent -- Publications: stack of printed sheets -- Posters -- Personifications: Genius of Dulness -- Porters -- Containers: basket -- Books -- Asses -- Altars -- Lighting: oil lamp -- Literature: The powers of the pen by Evan Lloyd.
publish'd according to act of Parliament [after 1763?]
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Cf. No. 3900 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Coffee houses: Bedford Coffee House -- Architectural details: Palladian windows -- Newspapers: The Briton, The Gazeteer, The Ledger, The Monitor -- Dishes: coffee service., Mounted to 32 x 45 cm., and Watermark.
Title from text below image., Place of publication conjectured., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below image: A child more easily conceived than described. Old story.
"Portrait of William Beckford, standing, looking to the left, wearing robes and chain; in decorative rectangular frame with writing ornaments at top; illustration to Baxter's 'History of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from that of the volume for which the print was issued., and Plate from: Baxter, J. A new and impartial history of England ... London : Printed for the proprietors; and sold by H.D. Symonds, [1796]
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs