Title etched above image., Plate numbered '83' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1758 and 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
View of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London; figures and carriages on street in foreground; shops adjoining church to the left
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate numbered "10" in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and St. Mary-le-Bow (Church : London, England),
"View of Buckingham House from outside the gates on to the park, without the fountain, a few elegantly dressed figures strolling around the yard, other figures outside gates in the park; an inscription on the building is lettered 'Sic Siti Laetantur Lares'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "22" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowe's Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
"Portrait of an unidentified woman, previously known as the Countess of Desmond; an elderly woman shown bust-length directed to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a heavy, dark veil like that of a nun, a dark cloak tied with lacing at the throat and a high, pale collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,67.147., Plate from an unidentified edition of Thomas Pennant's A tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX., "Plate VI" etched in upper left corner; "p. 74" etched in upper right corner., Possibly a portrait of Rembrandt's mother; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Mounted on page 112 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 14.6 x 12.2 cm and sheet 1.6 x 12.3 cm., Imperfect; the portion of the plate containing the printmaker's signature has been trimmed away, with the lower portion of the plate containing the title being mounted directly below the upper portion of the plate containing the image., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Scene on a road near St. Pancras church, which is visible in the background; two women and two men stand in road, one woman with her arms tied and a look of anguish on her face, the other woman raises her arm as one of the men points towards her; illustration to Johnson's 'History of ... Highwaymen"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., 'Page 120.'--Upper left corner of plate., The fictional character, Colonel Jack, is the hero of Defoe's The history and remarkable life of the truly honorable Col. Jacque ... (1722)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: countermark H.
"Portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, half-length, directed to front, with head tilted to left, looking towards the viewer; wearing wig, peer's ermine robe with chain, and neckerchief; in an oval, bordered by line, surmounted by five-petalled flowers, with tablet below behind; below, allegorical image, showing three female figures on a platform in a tent, and a fourth seated at left, holding a cornucopia; ship at sea in background at left; illustration to Thornton's 'A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus' (1805); from a drawing by Uwins, after Ramsay."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Two images, each separately titled below., Below image of the Earl of Bute is the allegorical representation of sitter's life's work. Statement of responsibility from second image., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Hoare, R.C. The history of modern Wiltshire: hundred of Dunworth and vale of Noddre. London : Printed by and for John Bowyer Nichols and son ..., 1829., and "Plate II"--Above image.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Hoare, R.C. The history of modern Wiltshire: hundred of Dunworth and vale of Noddre. London : Printed by and for John Bowyer Nichols and son ..., 1829., and "Plate III"--Above image.
An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler (looking left) mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the rightt, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the left a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
Alternative Title:
Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title: "The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butler's genious in a car lashing around Mount Parnassus in the persons of Hudibras & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance the reigning vices of his time.", Copy in reverse of no. 504 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Religion, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Vice
"Bird's eye view over Grosvenor Square, looking north; a circular garden area in centre of square with an equestrian statue and pathways between sections of shrubbery and lawn; beyond the square to the north fields continue into the distance with two small villages on hills; sedan chairs, carriages and elegantly dressed figures in square"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grosvenor Square
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Attribution to Nicholls from the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark ... / Written at first in the year 1598, by John Stow ... London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament for Stow's Survey