Titles engraved below images., Possible Lord Sandwich?, Plate for the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1788, v. xx, p. 151., Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'x' and 'xi'., and Mounted with the pages from Town and country magazine, 1788, v. xx, p. 151.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Armistead later wife of Charles James Fox (on left, numbered 19), and General Richard Smith (on the right, numbered 20).
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Armistead and Sir Matthew Mite
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776 p. 345.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Smith, Richard, 1734-1803. and Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842.
Portrait of Mrs. Abington after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing three-quarter length to front, resting her left arm on a draped block (the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse), head inclined to left, eyes to front; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up; plain background
Description:
Title from caption below image., First state, without numbering '133'. See J.C. Smith., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Mrs. Abington, comic actress, born and worked London and Dublin. Began as a flower seller and domestic servant., Mounted on leaf numbered 1 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.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing whole-length to front in woodland, resting her left arm on the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse, head inclined to left, eyes to front, holding mask in her right hand; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched beneath title., "Samuel William Reynolds I issued a series of upwards of 350 small mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Bayswater, in four volumes. The engraved title-page is dated 1820, but many plates were issued a few years later. ... Some of these plates are stated to have been engraved by Samuel Cousins when an apprentice to S.W. Reynolds, according to Algernon Graves in his List of the works of Samuel Cousins (Whitman, p. 147)"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.8282., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 176 (leaf numbered '214' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait seated at harpsichord to left, turned to face right; lettered state after publication address to include '& Son'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Anastasia Robinson
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Four lines of verse below title: When Robinson awakes the warbling strings, and with her heavenly voice responding sings; the winged graces float upon the sound, bless the sweet airs, and smiling play around., Mounted on leaf numbered 50 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by I. Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Portrait; seated at harpsichord to left, turned to face right
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Anastasia Robinson
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Four lines of verse below title: When Robinson awakes the warbling strings, and with her heavenly voice responding sings; the winged graces float upon the sound, bless the sweet airs, and smiling play around., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 247 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.
"Portrait seen almost whole-length, seated slightly to right playing lute, head turned to face l, wearing loose dress and her hair partly up; tree behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Verse in two lines and two columns below title reads: Were there on earth another voice like thine, another hand, so blest with skill divine, the late afflicted world some hopes might have, and harmony recall thee from the grave., Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 44 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.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress George Anne Bellamy numbered 28 and of actor Henry Woodward, numbered 29, as Captain Bobadil in 16th century costume
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Bellamy, Capt. Bobadil, and Captain Bobadil
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified by George., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776, p. 457.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, George Anne, 1731?-1788. and Woodward, Henry, 1714-1777.