"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and A note in pencil on verso, possibly in Frank T. Sabin's hand, mentions "Fritz Reiss Sale, 2900 guineas at Christies", in reference to the sale of another impression of the print in 1923. A second note below, in the same hand but likely written at a different time, asserts that this is the "finest impression of the 1st state known, specially selected by Horace Walpole, for whom the original picture was painted, & inserted by him in his own enlarged & illustrated catalogue of the pictures at Strawberry Hill".
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Abigail Drummond, in profile to left, half-length, reading a small book held up in left hand, wearing a loose dress with a gauzy shawl falling over both shoulders from her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from handwritten caption below image, written in black ink in unknown hand., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6412., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 4 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes written in black ink in unknown hand below image., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Oval portrait of a young girl, identified as Miss Rich, daughter of John Rich, a theatrical manager. See the Catalogue of engraved British portraits
Alternative Title:
From an original sketch in the collection of Mrs. Hogarth
Description:
Title from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of print: Not in Nichols. Another note in pencil in another unidentified hand below print: ?Miss Rich., and On page 218 in volume 3.
Half-length portrait in oval, directed to front with head turned and looking three-quarters to right, wearing shirt with open collar, cloak draped over right shoulder and soft cap
Alternative Title:
William Bullock, comedian
Description:
Title from published state. See British Museum online catalogue Registration number: K,58.77., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above row of three impressions of this print: William Bullock. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p 407. Another ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above this print: Proof.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Bullock, William, approximately 1657-approximately 1740,
Half-length portrait in oval, directed to front with head turned and looking three-quarters to right, wearing shirt with open collar, cloak draped over right shoulder and soft cap
Alternative Title:
William Bullock, comedian
Description:
Title from published state. See British Museum online catalogue Registration number: K,58.77., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in in pencil in Steevens's hand above row of three impressions of this print: William Bullock. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p 407.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Bullock, William, approximately 1657-approximately 1740,
Half-length portrait in oval, directed to front with head turned and looking three-quarters to right, wearing shirt with open collar, cloak draped over right shoulder and soft cap
Alternative Title:
William Bullock, comedian
Description:
Title from published state. See British Museum online catalogue Registration number: K,58.77., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Noted on verso in pencil: 2nd state 'b'; Felbrigg p. 208. Mounted on paper watermarked 1885: Sheet 23.2 x 14.8 cm., and Ms. note below image in contemporary hand: William Bullock.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st, 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Bullock, William, approximately 1657-approximately 1740,
"Portrait of a young woman, standing three-quarter length leaning on the rim of a fountain to the left, left hand on her right arm, looking to right, her cloak hung across her with a string of pearls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1311., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 37 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff., and "Mrs. Collier" written above publication statement in contemporary ms., black ink, unknown hand.
A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., State from British mezzotinto portraits., After Joshua Reynolds's painting, ca. 1766., and Numbered in manuscript upper left: 75. Printed on gilt-edged paper.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title devised by curator., With: [Ticket for Fielding's The mock doctor] / W. Hogarth ft. ; A.M.I. fecit., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £5-5-0. Note above image: 2., and On page 233 in volume 3.