"Portrait of Lady Arabella Seymour, born Stuart; three-quarter length, slightly to the left; one hand resting on table to the left with two books behind; wearing pearls that reach down to her waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Arabella Stuart
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a proof state; for a later state with title re-etched and plate number added in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Possibly engraved after the drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 124 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from the inscription within image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: Lady Huntingdon's chapel -- Interiors: Lady Huntigdon's chapel, Bath -- Allusion to Durham -- Allusion to Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, 1707-1791 -- Congregations: sleepy congregations -- Sermons -- Lighting: candlelight -- Pocket watches -- Clergy: preaching parson -- Bible: altered quotation from Psalm 39 -- Ear-trumpets -- Allusion to George Whitfield, 1714-1770.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on the construction timeframe for the tower, which was completed in 1827., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Matted to 29 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1760-1844 and Lansdown Tower (Bath, England)
A man beats another man with a walking stick to the amusement of bystanders, who include a fishwife, a milkmaid, a chimney-sweep's boy, etc. A lengthy inscription in a scroll in the upper left corner begins: "Ha ha ha I can't help laughing ..."
Alternative Title:
Laugh and grow fat
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title inscribed at top of image., Plate numbered '36' in upper right corner., Six lines of verse below image: If these hirelings must judge and judge by their own laws, let them find themselves quarters, a very just cause ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3401 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Alehouses: 'Man of Kent'.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 10525 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Attribution following title: Vide le Sage., Plate numbered "110" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 89 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
George III is shown with two faces in profile, standing in front of 2 doors, his right arm extended through a screen on the left and his hand being kissed by a kneeling Duke of Dorset. On the right, Charles James Fox, holding his East India Bill, also kneels to kiss the King's left hand, with North standing behind. On the wall hangs a picture of Bute as a cat. A reference to supposed secret influence at court
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Mounted to 31 x 38.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titles etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate; each design has an individual title below and a series title with numbering above., Series title above leftmost design entitled "Le ministre d'etat en grand costume": Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries. No. 1., Series title above rightmost design entitled "Les membres du Conseil des Anciens": French habits. No. 2., Reduced copies of two prints by Gillray with the same titles that were published 18 April 1798 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. Nos. 9196 and 9197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate numbered "93" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 36 in volume 2.
A facsimile copy of David Deuchar's 1808 edition, with images cropped, and no text., Captions in French., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cap and staff of Liberty -- Liberty's shield with sunflower., and Mounted to 24 x 21 cm.