"A fat 'cit' on an ill-bred horse leans back in the saddle with legs thrust forward; the angle of his seat is shown by a dotted half-circle above his head on which 90 degrees are marked, above his point of contact with the horse. An absurd dog barks at the horse's heels. In the background two riders are being flung from their horses. Behind them is St. Paul's and adjacent houses. On the right is a windmill. Illustration to an account of a grotesque City subscription hunt, whose rule is never to go out of sight of St. Paul's."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; series title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Richard Bentley; in his right hand he holds his own design of the figure of Melancholy, drawn by him for the edition of Thomas Gray's Odes (1753).
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 5885., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 71 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.
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782, (Richard), and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A plate with four images each separately titled. Upper left: With series title (Mathematical horsemanship. Plate 5) above and caption title (Mr. Robert Rasp letting fall a perpendicular from his saddle) below showing a rider falling off the side of his horse with two others in a similar state in the distance. Also with a cityscape with a domed church in the distance. Upper right, Pl. 6. Mr. Benjanin Bukskin & his horse performing their evolutions, within the circumference of a circle: A rider is thrown over the front of his horse with another rider in the distance falling off the back, a dog pulling at the reins; a city with a domed church also in the distance. Lower left, Fashionable furniture at Hogs Norton, Plate 2: a series of six images of clothes being dried in front of a hearth, table, chairs, coal scuttle, etc. Lower right, Fashionable furniture at Hogs Norton, Plate 1: a series of six images including chimney ornaments, a large cat, plate, mirror, clock, etc
Description:
Titles from etched above or below images., Imprint from other prints in the series., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A plate with four images each separately titled. Upper left: With series title (Mathematical horsemanship. Plate 5) above and caption title (Mr. Robert Rasp letting fall a perpendicular from his saddle) below showing a rider falling off the side of his horse with two others in a similar state in the distance. Also with a cityscape with a domed church in the distance. Upper right, Pl. 6. Mr. Benjanin Bukskin & his horse performing their evolutions, within the circumference of a circle: A rider is thrown over the front of his horse with another rider in the distance falling off the back, a dog pulling at the reins; a city with a domed church also in the distance. Lower left, Fashionable furniture at Hogs Norton, Plate 2: a series of six images of clothes being dried in front of a hearth, table, chairs, coal scuttle, etc. Lower right, Fashionable furniture at Hogs Norton, Plate 1: a series of six images including chimney ornaments, a large cat, plate, mirror, clock, etc
Description:
Titles from etched above or below images., Imprint from other prints in the series., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered in ms. along upper edge: 104., and Imperfect. Sheet trimmed to single image, top left: Mr. Robert Rasp letting fall a perpendicular from his saddle. Sheet 11.5 x 17.7 cm, mounted to 23 x 18 cm.
From the comic opera Rosina by Mrs. Brooke, a tousled countryman with his garters coming down, stands facing the viewer with a club in one hand and his hat in the other. Rosina was first performed at Covent Garden 13 December 1782 with music by W. Shield
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Gentleman's designs exectued gratis"--Lower left corner of image., and Text following title: "... and I slipt this bit of a switch out of the hedge, vide Rosina Act 2nd."
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 1, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Imprint and date from Paulson., The portrait is actually of the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, copied from G. White's mezzotint (after G. Kneller). See Paulson., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton and 15 others
Subject (Name):
Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Title etched below image., Imprint and date from Paulson., The portrait is actually of the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, copied from G. White's mezzotint (after G. Kneller). See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet partially trimmed. Tipped on the t.p. for the work, which has contemporary annotations on verso.
Publisher:
Printed for T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton and 15 others
Subject (Name):
Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
"Trade card for Thomas Sandby, junior; the daughter of Dibutades embracing her lover and outlining his shadow on the wall, while he holds a lamp on left; within oval on pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Sandby Junior
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Silhouette painting -- Lighting: oil lamps., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1791 by T. Sandby, St. Georges Row, London