"Satire: a standing man in a fine dress with the head of a fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Two lines of verse below image: By little actions striving to be great, and proud to be, and to be thought a cheat. Jenyns., Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : printed for J. Miller, v. 3 (1771), p. 309., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: French inflence, 1771 -- Literature: quotation from The modern fine gentleman by Soame Jenyns, 1704-1787., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Charlie Boy crying for the loss of his political father
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as William Dent in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1990,1109.89., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, May 6, 1791, on the French Canadian constitution., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[26 November 1788]
Call Number:
788.11.26.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Horace Walpole -- Trades: Apothecary -- Newspapers: Morning Herald -- Regency crisis., and Mounted to 28 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent Nov 26th 1788 ; sold by W. Moore Oxford St. of whom may be had the flight to Switzerland
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
"Portrait, bust in a circular frame directed to right, head in profile, hair dressed in grecian knots with strings of pearls and a circlet, wearing a gown with folds of draped material around the neckline; after the coronation medal. Scraped around the frame 'Charlotta D. G. M. Br. Fr. et Hib. Regina."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1859,0709.1283., "Done after the coronation medal"--Below image, lower left., "Price 1s. 6d."--Following imprint., Mounted on leaf numbered 30 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm. Actual price erased from print., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Hen. Parker & Eliz. Bakewell in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,
Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., and Mounted on page 14 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
Title etched below image., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: [...]ng?
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 March 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 4. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in fashionable dress standing whole-length to front, head bowed to right, her hands clasped together in front of her in fur-trimmed gloves; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, first (possibly only) state, from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., "Plate the 13th"--Lower right corner., and Mounted on page 4 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published March the 21st, 1782, by C.W. White, Kemps Row, Chelsea, London
"Portrait, bust directed to right, head in profile, wearing a low-necked bodice decorated with jewels and embroidered swirls, an ermine cloak draped over right arm, hair dressed up with tiara, large earrings, three pearl necklaces, with a bow at the nape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication transposed from end of publication statement., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7125., Mounted on leaf numbered 29 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height.", Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Charmers of the Age See Nichols's Book, 3rd edition p. 258. Given to me by the Right Honble. Willm Windham., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: There is no scarcer plate in the whole collection. No more copies of it than this & Lord Orford's have been found., and On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 188 x 263 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764