Short half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, state and date from later states and Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 288., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.8 x 19.2 cm.
Portrait; three-quarter length seated three-quarter to right; at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs and frilled cravat and powdered hair brushed back; right hand on his thigh; left hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper; looking up to right at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun; a volume labelled "Sydney on Gov."; a letter addressed "To Hu Cotes Esqr London," and a scroll labelled "Magna Charta" on the table; and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against the table in lower right corner
Description:
Title from text below image., Engraved after a portrait by R.E. Pine., Date of publication from description in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG D19995., and "Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae Caes Majestatis."
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Portrait, half-length, three-quarters to right but looking to front, wearing long wig, neckcloth and gown, left hand seen; oval frame resting on plinth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece to: Gildon, C. The life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian. London : Printed for Robert Gosling, 1710., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 196 (leaf numbered '7' 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:
Robert Gosling
Subject (Name):
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710, and Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.
"Portrait of Philippe de Champaigne, after the painter's self-portrait; half-length, turned to the right, with left hand on chest and right hand holding a parchment inscribed with the date '1668'; landscape and view of Brussels in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity. See Bénézit.
"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, bust length in an oval, wearing open shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Philippus Melanthon Germanice dictus Schwartzerd
Description:
Title from text within oval border of image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Sleidanus, J. The general history of the Reformation of the Church ... London : Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke, 1689., Biographical details etched on tablet beneath image: Natus Brettae, Anno 1497, 17 February, Augustanam Confessionem ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.2442., "Pag. 127"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 101 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke
"Portrait of William Ireland, half-length, in an oval lettered with the title, slightly turned to the left, with a mantle about his shoulders, a rope about his neck and a knife embedded in his chest, the Christogram in a laurel frame below upon a parapet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
R. P. Gulielmus Irlandus Societatis Iesu Sacerdos
Description:
Title from text in oval border of portrait. and Text engraved on pedestal below portrait: Fidei odio suspensus et dissectus ad Tybourn prope Londinum, 24 Januar. 1678, 3 Febr. 1679.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 10, 1805, by Wm. Richardson, York House, Strand