Page 137. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London, with numerous male figures, most wearing hats and carrying canes; the statue of Charles II in the centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 137 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Merchants' exchanges, Commercial facilities, Courtyards, Colonnades, Sculpture, and Crowds
Portrait of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland; half-length to the right, in an oval frame with ornaments
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Engraved after a painting by Van Dyck; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Waller, E. The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose. London : Printed for I. Tonson ..., 1729., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from bottom right. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D30565., Mounted on page 54 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Plate 1: Faith. A female figure, whole-length, holding a crucifix and chalice, in a niche."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Publisher not identified; the set of plates was published on several occasions in the Netherlands, first by Goltzius in Haarlem, then by Claes Jansz Visscher (before 1652) in Amsterdam, and finally by Jochem Ottens. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of seven numbered plates showing whole length personifications of "The Virtues" placed in niches, after Hendrik Goltzius., Two lines of text engraved below image: Prisca Fides nullo macula ... tartara spernit. Franco Estius., Plate numbered "1" in lower left corner of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of design and text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1857,0613.503., Mounted on page 76 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., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 31.1 x 12.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Based on the type of paper, this impression probably represents a mid- to late-18th century printing from an earlier plate.
Visscher, Lambert, approximately 1631-approximately 1691, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1664?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Johannes Froben, bust to left, wearing fur-trimmed coat; in a circle on a pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink within pedestal below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., State lacking title and without year "1664" following printmaker's signature. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,7.177., Place and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 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.
Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
Volume 1, page 11. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Georgivs Dvx Clarentia : Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh and Georgius Dux Clerentia
Description:
Title devised by curator., Inscription in upper right corner of image: Georgivs Dvx Clarentia Cons. Cast. de Qveenebvrgh ..., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 11 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Title devised by curator., Date based on time period when Charles Cornwallis was known as "The Lord Cornwallis"., Text within banner below shield: Virtvs vincit invidiam., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.