Lordschneider, G. A. (Giovanni Antonio), playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1870?]
Call Number:
AUSsheet68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN AUSsheet68: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Original design., Uncut sheet of 24 playing cards (Ace of Hearts, Ace of Diamonds, King-Jack; 10 of Spades; 10-7 of Hearts, 10-7 of Diamonds; 10 of Clubs)., and Court cards: Jack of Diamonds: G. A. LORDSCHNEIDER TRIESTE.
Page 197. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility and date written in ink in lower right corner., On verso is a pencil drawing by the same artist: [Sketch of a woman]., and Mounted on page 197 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).
A view of a church, probably in Glouchestershire, including the churchyard with gravestones, as scene over a wall with a gate. Outside the wall, two pigs and a saddeld horse feed or drink as a dog sits on the wall looking in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of printing based on watermark., With another untitled plate on same sheet: [Baptismal font] / drawn and engrav'd by T. Bonnor. [London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament January 1st, 1782, By Ralph Bigland, Garter principal King of Arms, [1 January 1794?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '8' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of printing based on watermark., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '15' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Title from no. 6360 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. and Reversed version of an unidentified portrait of a man in bag wig, with long upper lip and receding chin (cf. British Museum catalogue o. 6360).
Head-and-shoulder portrait of a gentleman in profile to the right in a bag wig and ruffled shirt. He has a very long, beak-like nose and wears spectacles
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Beginning of imprint statement is lightly etched and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pub. 14th Feb. 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
An old, toothless man in a simple coat buttoned up to his chin, a cocked hat, and eyeglasses, is [presumably since the chair was not drawn] sitting at a tea table on which are two teacups and saucers and a teapot. He is holding a candlestick in his right hand and a sheet of paper in his left, looking ahead of him to the right
Alternative Title:
Old man with candlestick sitting at a tea table
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and The number '15' in date in imprint statement is lightly etched and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Feb. 1783 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street