Half length portrait to the right, in an oval, of a man wearing a long curled wig and a cravat; tentatively identified as Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker attribution and sitter's identity from note in pencil on verso: Lord Townshend, engravd. by Josiah Boydell., Probably a proof state; no lettering present, and lower margin not cleaned., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted to 36 x 28 cm.
"Portrait of Arthur Young, nearly half-length, seated on a chair in profile to right, wearing an open coat and neckerchief."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist, printmaker, and date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1924,0125.4., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 562 (leaf numbered '156' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Portrait of Antonio Magliabechi, bust-length in profile to the right, wearing a cloak and bands; circular design done after a medal
Alternative Title:
Antonius Magliabechius Florentinus
Description:
Title from item., Probably a copy of the title page vignette from: Spence, J. A parallel; in the manner of Plutarch. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, by W. Robinson ..., 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 18 x 11 cm., and Mounted opposite page [3] in Richard Bull's interleaved copy of: Spence, J. A parallel; in the manner of Plutarch. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, by W. Robinson ..., 1758.
Opposite page 39. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portrait of William Duke of Cumberland, in profile to the right; wearing armor and a fur-lined cloak fastened with a brooch at the shoulder; circular design within a square
Description:
Title etched within top portion of circular border surrounding portrait., Date range for publication based on printmaker John Hall's activity dates; see British Museum online catalogue., Probably a book illustration., and Bound in opposite page 39 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
"Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet., Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Proof before letters?, Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774,
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, British, and Military uniforms
"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated in an armchair in front of a wall with fluted pilasters; directed towards right, facing front; wearing a long dark fur-trimmed coat over light waistcoat, shirt, breeches and stockings; his left hand resting on an open book on a covered table, next to other volumes of books; curtain on right; coat of arms below image lettered with motto "Deo Juvante"; after Howard; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 576 (leaf numbered '5' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1745-1816,
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May 8, 1746.
Call Number:
42 W67 852B
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 472. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched within banner at top of lower image., Design in two parts on two separate plates, with a portrait of William Augustus at top and a scene of the Battle of Culloden within a cartouche at bottom., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 472 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
Subject (Topic):
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Campaigns & battles, Armies, and British
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1770]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 107. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the author Oliver Goldsmith; bust, in profile to the left; wearing queue wig and jacket; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor Goldsmith
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.156., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : drypoint with etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.4 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits of the 4th Earl of Sandwich and his mistress, Martha Ray, in separate unnumbered, ornamental oval frames
Alternative Title:
Miss R-- and Miss Ray
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from that of the original., A copy in reverse of a plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 562., and Cf. No. 4361 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Reay, Martha,
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1770]
Call Number:
Bunbury 770.00.00.147 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 107. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the author Oliver Goldsmith; bust, in profile to the left; wearing queue wig and jacket; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor Goldsmith
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.156., 1 print : drypoint with etching on laid paper ; plate mark 18.2 x 13.1 cm, on sheet 18.5 x 13.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title etched below image and two lines of verse., Publication date inferred from Overton's death date., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image and above title: Two men there are the inward & the out, whom Satan to insnare [sic] still hovereth about ..., Two lines of verse below title: Sing Whitfield and Webber, for ever and ever., Subject identified in a note in 18th-century hand at bottom of sheet as Rev. George Whitefield., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Wall-eyed.
Title from item., Attribution to Hollar, title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and right., and Fourteen lines of text below the image: Dr. Laighton, for writing a booke called Sions plea ...
publish'd May [the] 27th 1742, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
742.05.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Owen Farrel in Covent Garden, full length, walking to right, glancing towards front, with hat in his right hand and staff in the left; behind him two children gesture towards him and a dog yaps between his feet at another; a woman with a wheelbarrow, another man and a boy on the right, turning and exclaiming to their left; St Paul's Church behind them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description of life and person of Owen Farrel below image: He was born in the county of Caven & in [the] year 1716 was footman to a colonel at Dublin ..., Dedicated by the printmaker to Cromwell Mortimer, M.D., "Price 1 s.", and Mounted to 41 x 26 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of Peter [?], son of a glazier from Wells who made fortune during the war, and his cook-maid, Miss G.
Alternative Title:
Commissary
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 5 (1773), page 289.
Full-length portrait of Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder who was later hanged as a sorcerer in 1647, looking left and shown wearing a hat and cloak, holding a walking stick in his right hand and standing next to a tree beside a foot path
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate from: The wonderful museum, 1792.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as Capt. Roper (No. 3) and a Miss F-----m, a London courtesan (No. 2).
Alternative Title:
Ardent lover
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country magazine, August 1777 (ix, 345), with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Thomas Panton (No. 6) and Miss Carter, a courtesan (No. 5).
Description:
Title from item., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country Magazine, December 1777 (ix, 569) with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5421 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as a Colonel C. in the Guards (No. 9) and the widow of Lord 'A.H.' (No.8).
Alternative Title:
Susceptible soldier
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Copy of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, November 1777 (ix, 513), with different titles and plate numbers. Cf. No. 5420 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames. Subjects in the original publication are identified as the Earl of Sandwich (No.16) and Miss Martha Ray (No.15); see British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Intriguing colonel
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête probably from the Oxford Magazine, June 1792., and Copy, in reverse, of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, November 1769 (i, 561), with different titles and plate numbers. Cf. No. 4361 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Miss D., a daughther of a Surrey farmer and the Marquess of Cholmondeley
Alternative Title:
Revengeful lover
Description:
Titles from text below image., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, January, 1778 (ix, 625) with different titles and without numbers above the images., Variant state of No. 5497 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of unidentified subjects
Alternative Title:
Compassionate lover
Description:
Titles etched below images., Plate probably from: The Oxford magazine, November 1792., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Mrs. Winter, a widow of a lieutenant in the Marines, and Lord Hillsborough, afterwards Marquis of Downshire
Alternative Title:
Noble dupe
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, October 1777 (ix, 457) with different titles and without numbers above portraits., and Variant state of No. 5419 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames
Alternative Title:
Conquering general
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête probably from the Oxford magazine, July 1792., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Portrait of Kitty Clive when Miss Raftor, as the shepherdess from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); three-quarter length half-turned away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown, hair up, holding a wreath above the head of a young man who leans in to kiss her from left, her left hand on his arm, his right hand on her waist, left arm around her back, holding hat, in a forest with sheep."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse below image: "In native Beauty clad without disguise ... And live in Pleasures which alternate spring.", Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6963., Note from British Museum online catalogue regarding artist: "Schalken died 5 years before Catherine Clive was born: this print is simliar to a mezzotint by Faber II after Bleeck (Chaloner Smith 85), and to a mezzotint by Faber inscribed with 'G Schliecken' as the painter's name (Russell 85a), which may have been the source for the erroneous inscription.", and Numbered in ms. at top left of verso: Mint. 5-3648.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on sitter's death date., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark to image with loss of text., and Mounted on sheet: 419 x 302 mm.
"Portrait of William Esdaile, seated to left on a chair, with head turned to look to front; his left hand resting on his knee, and right arm on a table on which lies a book, holding a print or drawing in his hand; wearing a dark double-breasted tailcoat, breeches, stockings, white neckerchief and frill; border of double line surrounding image; after Sharples."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from annotation on verso., Name of printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0410.319., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's presumed place of activity., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Annotation on verso: William Esdaile Esqr. of Clapham Common engraved by R Grave.
"Portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, half-length, directed to front, with head tilted to left, looking towards the viewer; wearing wig, peer's ermine robe with chain, and neckerchief; in an oval, bordered by line, surmounted by five-petalled flowers, with tablet below behind; below, allegorical image, showing three female figures on a platform in a tent, and a fourth seated at left, holding a cornucopia; ship at sea in background at left; illustration to Thornton's 'A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus' (1805); from a drawing by Uwins, after Ramsay."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Two images, each separately titled below., Below image of the Earl of Bute is the allegorical representation of sitter's life's work. Statement of responsibility from second image., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Portrait, seated to front and smoking pipe, almost whole-length, his arms resting on chair-backs, bottle, glass and paper on table at right. According to the British Museum catalogue, Benjamin Bradly [sic] was a tobacconist, and an opponent of Robert Walpole's excise bill
Description:
Title supplied by cataloguer., Text below image: Behold the Man, who when a gloomy Band, Of vile Excisemen threaten'd all the Land, Help'd to deliver from their Harpy Gripe, The chearfull Bottle and the Social Pipe, O rare Ben Bradly! may for This the Bowl, Still unexcis'd, rejoice thy honest Soul! May still the Best in Christendom for This, Heave to thy Stopper and compleat thy Bliss., A small crest showing Britannia smoking, centered between text below image., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
"Double portrait as children, seen whole-length to front, with tame young doe; Lord Lionel holding garland of flowers and standing beside and looking towards his sister, seated on wall, holding small spaniel on her lap; park behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Buckhurst and Lady Mary Sackvil his sister
Description:
Title from text below image., Place and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4434., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dorset, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of, 1688-1765,
"Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, half length, in an architectural oval, in profile to the left, dressed in parade armour with a plain collar over his gorget, a vignette below of a kneeling man accompanied by other gentlemen offering Cromwell, accompanied by his courtiers, a crown, a plumed helmet, axe, sword, and cornucopia below with sprigs of palm and oak, state before publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched in image., Text below image: In the collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire., and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1981,U.2044.
"Portrait, seated three-quarter length to right within oval frame, resting hands, one gloved, on stick, eyes to front; wearing loose coat over sash and uniform; after Poggi."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant Colonel Biddulph of the 3d Regiment
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 476 x 347 mm.
Title from caption below image., Text above image: Frontispiece., Date based on sitter's appropriate age for portrait., and Dedication below image: "To his most sacred majesty who is the head of the church ... this complete family bible is most dutifully inscrib'd."
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Place of publication based on sitter's known major place of activity., Date of publication based on year sitter would be of age for portrait., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text., and In paper frame: 362 x 267 mm.
"Print, half-length portrait of Francis Beaumont, dramatist, engraving by George Vertue after an unknown artist."--Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset
Description:
Title and subtitle from text in image., Caption below image: "Celsissimo Principi Leonello Duci de Dorset &c. Nobilissimo Ordinis Periscelides Equiti. Hanc tabulum ad archetypum in ipsius adibus expressam. Humil. D.D.D. G. Vertue.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait as a boy, in a landscape walking into the right foreground, wearing a short jacket and shoes with large rosettes, holding a plumed hat in right hand, a greyhound running alongside him on the right; after Ramsay"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and artists' names appear as text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1192., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After the painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London., Artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "This plate was engraved for the Poems 1753 but destroyed by Gray's desire.", and Lewis Walpole Library Quarto 532 C753 Copy 4: Bound in as the frontispiece opposite the title page: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. Impression formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. notes. Trimmed to plate mark.
Title and artist from similar print in the British Museum. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.1998. and Date of publication based on age of sitter.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708,
"Portrait of John Gower; bust, in profile to the right; wearing chaplet of roses around his head; in a rectangle frame, set within architectural details; a tablet below, with his three principal works in front, and a further book open to a page with an illustration of his monument in Southwark Cathedral; the portrait taken from his effigy on this monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Text below image: "Honoratiss Dno Ioanni Levison Gower Domino Gower; hanc effigiem humillime D.D. / G. Vertue." per image in British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,1.338., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of text below design., and In white paper frame with green gouche, yellow wash, and black ink frame: 420 x 360 mm.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Portraits G442 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in the image: A plan of the Radcliffe Library., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3288., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 39.8 x 29.9 cm.
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
"Portrait of Humphrey Gower; half-length, slightly to right, looking towards left; wearing a wig, fur-trimmed robes and clerical bands; in an oval frame with a ribbon on top, and decoration of oak leaves around, placed on a pedestal; after Fellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.