"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 11 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1788, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street
A clergyman in bands and gown, his hat on the pavement, squares up to a watchman holding a lantern and stick, his fists raised. He has evidently knocked out one watchman already, who lies on the ground, wig dislodged and still touching his lantern, while a third approaches from the left. Possibly from a series featuring a pugnacious parson's brushes with the law
Description:
Title etched below image., For another print featuring the same characters, see no. 5520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Watchmen, Lanterns, Staffs (Sticks), and Fighting
Volume 2, page 34. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady nurses a sleeping baby while another older girl approaches from the left; an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 34 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
Theatre-Royal, Bath. The public are respectfully informed, that Miss Smith, late of the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden, and formerly of this theatre, is engaged to perform here three nights, previous to her return to Dublin
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815].
Publisher:
Printed at Keenes Bath Journal Office, Kingsmead-Street
Subject (Name):
Cherry, A. 1762-1812. (Andrew),, Shield, William, 1748-1829., and Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789.
Plate 71. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A defense of the unpopular ministry of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, Hogarth takes off from a print published in August 1762 "John Bull's House sett in Flames". He depicts a London street scene in which the half the buildlings are in flames as the political factions either stir the flames or are battling to extinguish them. The fire is the Seven Years' War and the houses, Germany and France; the two men clasping hands are France and Spain who had recently joined in the fight against England
Description:
Title etched below image., Second state as described by Paulson, with 'HERMIONE' and the door and doorway to the house with the burning globe have been darkened with added seriese of diagonal lines. For other changes to the design, see Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mar., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 30.5 cm, on sheet 28.5 x 36.9 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 71 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, Fires, Fire fighting, Firefighting equipment, and Signs (Notices)
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: My daddy was a tinker's son ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14, Great Saint Andrew Street, Seven Dials and Mantz, Finsbury
Eliz +33: A fragment only, consisting of four half sheets, uncut and unsewn, as issued, measuring 19.7 by 28.2 cm. Mounted in an album bound in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine. Each leaf bears the British Museum duplicate stamp. Acquired by exchange with the British Museum for the Huth copy, which was complete, November 1911.
Caption title., Date of imprint from date of trials., Account of the three trials, with one column of verse on the murder of John Oldcroft., In the text, the name of the murder victim is given as Charles Oldcroft, not John, as in the title., Verses begin : Oh! listen to a tale of woe, I now to you unfold., Wood engraving (8 x 14.2 cm.) : Hanging scene before prison walls, with spectators., and For further information, consult library staff.