Title assigned by the cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, imprint and placement directions., Place, publisher and date of publication from illustrations in the 1791 and 1792 editions of The History of Tom Jones. This illustration is not present in the Beinecke Library copies of either edition., Illustration to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones ... , Book IX, Chapter 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1791 by J. Sibbald, Edinr
"Ulysses restrains Troilius, who watches from behind hangings in Calchas' tent, as Cressida sits holding Diomedes by the hand, agreeing finally to give him the sleeve Troilius gave her as a gage of his love."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from description of possible earlier state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1922,0428.34., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
"Cressida brandishing an axe in her right hand, her left on her head, wearing a laurel wreath, looking wildly ahead to left as she prophesies the fall of Troy, which is shown burning behind her."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Scene II
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., State with background mostly unfinished., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed on left side.
Publisher:
Publish'd by John & Josiah Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"Olivia, outside a church, looking and gesturing towards Sebastian, touching the priest on the arm and asking him to tell the company of her secret marriage to Sebastian for the benefit of the Duke, who stands on the left in an attitude of surprise."--Brit. Mus. online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24, 1791, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"Olivia, outside a church, looking and gesturing towards Sebastian, touching the priest on the arm and asking him to tell the company of her secret marriage to Sebastian for the benefit of the Duke, who stands on the left in an attitude of surprise."--Brit. Mus. online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: 48.5 x 61.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24, 1791, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"Valentine stepping out from behind rocks in a forest, to pull Proteus away from Sylia, who he holds around the waist, threatening to rape her, while Julia, disguised as a boy, watches anxiously on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint., and Sheet trimmed on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Copy of the frontispiece to Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 2nd ed. (R and J Dodsley: London, 1760), vol. 1 (illustrating an episode in vol. 2); Corporal Trim stands at right, reading a sermon on Conscience, seen from behind and illustrating the passage in which his posture is described with 'his knee bent, but that not violently - but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'; at left Dr Slop, asleep in a chair by the fire; behind, Walter Shandy and Uncle Toby sitting and smoking, Toby's map of the fortifications at Namur above on the wall; state with grandfather clock in the corner and tricorne hat on the floor
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. I, page 214"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with Manfred, Theodore, and several other characters in the foreground drawing back in fear from the vision appearing behind them, shielding themselves with their arms. This vision, apperaring within the ruins of a castle wall that has been toppled, includes the ghostly form of Alphonso, in full armor, surrounded by smoke and accompanied by a monk
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Page reference written in ink below lower right corner of image: P. 239., and Bound in opposite page 239 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1793]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 92
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"King Leontes, furious with the delusion that Mamilius is not his son but a bastard, pointing at the child with his left hand, orders Antigonus, who has defended Hermione's honour and saved the child from being thrown into the fire, to prove his loyalty to his King by kissing his sword and abandoning the child in the wilderness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., 'Shakspeare' in open letters etched above title., State with the child and bed in outline only., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616