"A girl sitting on a chair with weary expression outside a cottage, her parents standing either side of her anxiously, a cat in the left foreground, the sea behind at left with a boat; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
My faither urged me sair, my mither did nae speak ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Two lines of text below image: My faither urged me sair, my mither did nae speak, but she look'd in my face, till my heart was like to break. Auld Robin Gray., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Major John Cartwright; aged 81, three-quarter length, seated in armchair, legs crossed, looking at viewer, his left arm resting on armchair, holding a closed scroll."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different print of the same composition
Description:
Title from facsimile signature beneath image on later state., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Drawn & engraved by H. Meyer., Proof before letters. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published Feb. 21, 1826, for the proprietor Miss Cartwright by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13772)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Early state of a plate from: The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright / edited by his niece, F.D. Cartwright. London : H. Colburn, 1826., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 220 (leaf numbered '43' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Sitter identified as "Major Cartwright (aged 81)" in ink on mounting sheet, in a later hand.
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and partial loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "12" in lower right corner., "Vol. 1, p. 97 "--Lower left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 16.7 cm., and Bound in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),