Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Thomas Panton (No. 6) and Miss Carter, a courtesan (No. 5).
Description:
Title from item., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country Magazine, December 1777 (ix, 569) with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5421 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., Mounted on page 87 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., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., and Mounted on page 30.
"Print, half-length portrait of Francis Beaumont, dramatist, engraving by George Vertue after an unknown artist."--Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset
Description:
Title and subtitle from text in image., Caption below image: "Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset &c. Nobilissimo Ordinis Periscelides Equiti. Hanc tabulum ad archetypum in ipsius adibus expressam. Humil. D.D.D. G. Vertue.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
George III, full-length standing looking to left, right hand on hip, left hand on his ermine cloak on a table to right, next to the crown, in coronation robes with the collar of the garter and powdered wig tied at the nape. After Ramsay's coronation portrait of 1761 but without the curtain and pillar behind on the left
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from curator., and Window mounted to 23 x 15 cm.
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Printed on one sheet with another portrait of Steevens by Sayers., and Mounted to 25 x 37 cm.
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
"Three-quarter length, standing, directed, facing and looking to the left, left hand resting on a paper on the table beside him, wearing robes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,1010.19., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 146 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., Probably given to Richard Bull by Horace Walpole, as suggested by a note in Walpole's hand mounted below: Lord Orford is extremely obliged to Mr. Bull for the two prints. He has not the plate of Lord Waldegrave, but he believes Lady Waldegrave has; & if she has, he will get one for Mr. Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.