Title from text in image., Publication date etched in the upper margin., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, when a boy, whole length, standing to front in a park, holding a scroll, leaning on a table, with head turned to look to right at an old, half-naked man, seated on a tree trunk, addressing him; another man seated at left in a contemplating pose; Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill in background."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0508.479
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to volume 1 and Lord Orford's Memoires
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Publication information from that of the volume to which this print is a frontispiece., and Frontispiece to volume one of: Walpole, H. Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second. London: J. Murray, 1822.
"Portrait of George Frederick Cooke as Iago in Shakespeare's 'Othello'; standing three-quarter to front with plumed hat in his left hand, his left arm close to his waist, turned to face left; wearing cloak over slashed, embroidered doublet and ruff with tassles"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., One line of verse below title: Oh, beware, my Lord of jealousy., and Library's impression with multiple tears, glued on buckram mount.
Publisher:
Published April 21, 1801, by Messrs. Wards, & Co. N. 6, Newman Street, London
Subject (Name):
Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812,
Subject (Topic):
Iago (Fictitious character), Fictitious characters, Actors, and British
"Portrait of Galfridus Walpole, half length to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing large long wig; in oval; with facsimile of signature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second line of title from bottom edge. Complete title supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 142 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Galfridus, 1683-1726 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 13.7 x 9.1 cm, on sheet 17.8 x 12 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 4 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Geo. Onslow.
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image. and Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Leaf 47. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Samuel Drybutter, a well-known homosexual, standing in fetters whole length in profile to left, conversing with Jack Catch (or Ketch, the public hangman) who holds a halter in his right hand and says, "Dammee Sammy your a sweet pretty creature & I long to have you at the end of my String", to which Drybutter replies, "You don't love me Jacky"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ganymede and Jack-Catch
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imperfect; first word "Dammee" in Jack Catch's speech bubble has been erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: John Ketch -- Capital punishment: Manacles., and First of two plates on leaf 47.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 61. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man standing in profile to the right, a cane in his right hand; his left is inside his waistcoat. His shoulders are round, almost to deformity. He wears a looped hat and ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 61., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.3 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. March 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand