Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Bunbury 779.07.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
Two ugly dandies face each other across a round table as they play cards. Both are fashionably dressed. The one on the right says: "Fifteen six, a flush, and his whig, makes me out -pon honor 'tis really astonishing. You are not in luck." His opponent responds: "Prodigious!! then I am diddled again--Monstrous! Oblige me with a pinch of your mixture or I shall expire!" On the wall behind them on the left is a bust portrait of a man in Roman armour inscribed "My Papa!" and on the right, a French window with a full-length curtain. An ornate rug covers the floor
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 8, 1746.
Call Number:
42 W67 852B
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 472. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched within banner at top of lower image., Design in two parts on two separate plates, with a portrait of William Augustus at top and a scene of the Battle of Culloden within a cartouche at bottom., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 472 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
Subject (Topic):
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Campaigns & battles, Armies, and British
Title etched below image., Reissue of illustration in The wit's magazine, 1785, p. 115, with the publication line burnished from the plate., Publication date based on that of the first issue in The wit's magazine., and Listed without description with other prints from: The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., no. 6885.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Lawyers, Judicial proceedings, and Manners & customs
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?: s.n., 1836?], p. 76., A reduced copy in reverse of a print by J. Bretherton after Bunbury published 1 Apr. 1774. See British Museum online cataglogue, registration no.: J,6.5., and Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet, with the area of erasure shaded over in pencil.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1742 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seated half-length to right beside table and holding plan of the Foundling Hospital, eyes to front, wearing wig, plain coat and cravat; curtain and view of harbour through window behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,1.248., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 435., and On page 127 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Locke, Daniel, 1681 or 1682-1754, and Foundling Hospital (London, England),
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1742 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits L813 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seated half-length to right beside table and holding plan of the Foundling Hospital, eyes to front, wearing wig, plain coat and cravat; curtain and view of harbour through window behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,1.248., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., and "Price 1s. 6"--Following title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Locke, Daniel, 1681 or 1682-1754, and Foundling Hospital (London, England),
Title from caption below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Two designs side by side, collectively titled in letterpress below.
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: hats., and Mounted to 37 x 32 cm.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the life of Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs arranged horizontally on one plate, with a single collective below; each design is individually titled, has an explanatory caption below the title, and has a double border surrounding the image and text., Caption for leftmost design entitled "Democratic innocence": The young Buonaparte & his wretched relatives, in their native poverty, while free booters in the island of Corsica., Caption for rightmost design entitled "Democratic humility": Buonaparte when a boy recieved [sic] thro the Kings bounty into the Ecole Militaire at Paris., A copy of a print by Gillray of the same title that was published 12 May 1800. Cf. No. 9534 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., "Pl. 1" etched above left design, outside double border; "Pl. 2" etched above right design, outside double border., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 45 in volume 1.