"Portrait of Mrs Frances Wrighten, half-length, directed to right, facing to front, holding sheet music, hair high and decorated with pearls; oval frame with lettering underneath and a motif of musical instruments that intrudes into the frame; after Dighton, from a set of twelve theatrical portraits."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state. and Lettered state before title. For a later state with title, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3004.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs March 1st, 1780, by W. Richardson, No. 68 High Holborn
Opposite page 128. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sea monster lounges on the reed-covered shore next to the ocean, playing a pan flute. A second figure sleeps in the background on the left, the remnants of a meal (oyster shells and fish bones) in front of them
Alternative Title:
After-dinner music
Description:
Title from that of another print after the same design., Another version, probably a copy, of a print engraved and published by John Hamilton Mortimer after his own design. For the likely earlier version published 8 December 1778 with the title "Musical monster", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.3297., Former attribution to Bernard Lens from local card catalog record. Lewis Walpole Library impression is mounted in a volume opposite biographical information about Bernard Lens., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 23 x 18 cm., and Bound in opposite page 128 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England. Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXV [1765].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Supernatural beings, Panpipes, Reeds (Plants), Eating & drinking, and Sleeping
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1 March 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 53. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to British Museum Satires No. 4719."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Catchpenny Alley
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, with artist and printmaker signatures only. For a later state with title, publication line, and drypoint shading of the image added, see no. 4717 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date inferred from publication line on later state: Publish'd 1st March 1777., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Campanion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a pigeon., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket., and Mounted on page 53 of: Bunbury album.
A set of original designs by Robert Cruikshank, for an unrecorded series of conundrum cards. The eight designs are all inscribed with a number (the highest being 170) and the name of the character, but all lack the 1- or 2-line conundrum
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Each card annotated in pencil or ink, signed ‘RCk.', and Date from dealer's description.
Page 190. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Trees and bench
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink on a separate sheet, mounted below drawing; alternative statement of responsibility "by Lady Beaclerc [sic]" written in pencil at top of image., and Mounted on page 190 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 99. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from earlier state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state: H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delt. ; C.W. White sculpt., Later state, with image reduced to an oval and background elements added. For an earlier state published 28 March 1783 by C.W. White, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.114., Sheet trimmed to oval shape along border of image, with possible loss of text., Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
Plate 35. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul (left) on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea; Felix, his wife Drusilla (a Jewess), and two priests on a dais, one sitting, asleep, beside the governor; two clerks in front of the bench at which St. Paul stands, with a small group of women looking up at Paul; the figure of Tertullus with a scroll in his hand stands at a bench to the right; a soldier to the left with a spear; and two figures carrying fascae either side of the dais. A group of spectators look down from a balcony on the left high above the scene
Alternative Title:
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled
Description:
Title from Paulson: Paul before Felix., Added title from caption engraved below image., State inferred from Paulson. State with altered publication line (Paulson's state 2) but without added quotations (Paulson's state 3). No gap in publication line caused by the curlicue under 'trembled'., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42 x 52.5 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 35 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Israel and Caesarea.
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, Soldiers, and Roman
Plate 34. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea; the Saint to right, Felix and two priests on a dais, one sitting, asleep, beside the governor, two clerks in front of the bench at which St Paul stands, a figure with the Roman standard and a scroll to left, a soldier to right and two figures carrying fascae either side of the dais ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled
Description:
Title, publisher and state from Paulson., Added title from caption below image., Quotation from Acts 24-25 engraved below image: And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and Judgment to come, Felix trembled., Text below quotation: From the original painting in Lincoln's Inn Hall painted by Wm. Hogarth., State with quotation from Warton, printmaker's name, and date of publication eliminated., Copy of Hogarth's print of the same title, with fewer figures and distinquished because it is not the reverse of the original painting., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.1 x 52.6 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 34 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Apostle, Saint,
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Judicial proceedings, and Parables
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: two figures on the left side of the plate, the right half being empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peasant in sabots walking with priest and Peasant and monk
Description:
Title devised by curator., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Proof state?, Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Priests., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.5 x 16.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.