"Portrait of Sarah Siddons, after Gainsborough; three-quarters length sitting directed and looking to left, wearing a striped gown and large feathered hat, set at an angle, her hands on a fur muff in her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and date of publication from similar image in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0509.121.
"Illustration to Bell's Shakespeare; Sarah Siddons as Isabella in Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'; whole length, to the right, arms extended, beseeching; wearing a long scarf that hangs from the back of her head, and around her body, a crucifix and beads at her waist; in oval. 1785."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text above image: "Act 5 ; Measure for Measure ; Scene 1.", Verse below title: "Justice, O royal duke! vail your regard ; upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said a maid!", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 330 x 268 mm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of a Mrs. Sw-n and Richard Rigby, known as Bloomsbury Dick
Alternative Title:
Bloomsbury Dick
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 289., In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
"Half-length in oval frame, looking to left wearing a cap and ribbon around her neck; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.766., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 26 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, numbered respectively No. XIX and No. XX, of a Mrs. T-rr-t and Robert Henley, Earl of Northington
Alternative Title:
Tom Tilbury
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 344.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. IV and No. V, of a Mrs. T-s and Sir Robert Ladbroke, M.P. for the City of London
Alternative Title:
Father of the city
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 64., and In upper right corner: Vol. II.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered on left side: No. xxiii and No. xxiv, respectively or Mrs. Jordan and Richard Daly
Alternative Title:
Irish manager
Description:
Titles from text below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" ini the Town and Country Magazine, 1787, v. xviii, page 625.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764 or 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1778); three-quarter length standing to front, her left arm across her waist, her right hand holding up her loose dress, her hair falling over her right shoulder; curtain behind at left and landscape beyond at right; lettered state after address and price erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3405., Mounted on leaf numbered 29 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, numbered respectively No. VII and No. VIII, of a Mrs. V-t and Frederick, 3rd Viscount St. John and 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (1734-1787).
Alternative Title:
Battersea baron
Description:
Titles engraved below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 4 (1772), page 121., and In upper right corner of plate: Vol. 4.