Triomphe de Constantin apres sa victoire sur Maxence
Description:
Title from captions in Latin and French below image., Four lines of text below Latin title: Constantinus victo Maxentio, urbem triumphali pompâ ingressus ..., Four lines of text below French title: Constantin ayant vaincu Maxence, fit son entrée triomphante dans la ville ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Chez N. Tardieu, rue St. Jacques au Mecenas, avec privilege du Roy
Subject (Name):
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337. and Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius, Emperor of Rome, -312.
Subject (Topic):
Saxa Rubra, Battle of, Italy, 312 and Campaigns & battles
"Satire against England: Pitt strides forward holding a flag next to a crown, while chained figures cringe at his feet, and a scaffold and executioner occupy the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Title continues: ... ou le triomphe du ministre Pitt, foulant aux pieds la couronne d'Angleterre, d'une main il tient une hache et les chaines dont il a su charger la Nation et le Roi, de l'autre il porte le drapeau de l'esclavage; les impots et les echafauds sont les moyens qu'il employe pour soutenir son pouvoir chancelant., French original, later copied by Gillray, dated 1789 by the Bibliotheque Nationale presumably based on its place in a collection by an artist who gathered prints at the time, Michel Hennin., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
History, Public opinion, Foreign relations, Axes, Calumets, Chains, Crowns, Gallows, Punishment devices, and Shackles
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from watermark., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title etched in open letters below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first letters in title. Missing letters supplied in contemporary hand., Dated from the ms. note on impression at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on verso of a partially trimmed map: Operations of the siege of the citadel of Antwerp showing the 1st and 2nd parallels and the commencement of the works of the 3rd. London : Published by M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832., and Mounted to 22 x 28 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 7 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 5 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 43 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 17.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Lord Monboddo is seated at a writing table in his study regarding the viewer intently
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, 1837., and Printmaker from no. 6694 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires