Title etched below image., Possibly a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. London : R.S. Kirby, 1803-20., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published October 6th, 1814, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Paul's
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[1] 'H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Punch (left) points to a large butt or tun inscribed 'WYNNSTAY', from the top of which hang comic masks which encircle its upper circumference; in his right hand is a stick with an ass's head. On the right side of the butt are three figures: Mother Shipton, humpbacked with a profile like Punch's; a demon or satyr, who looks from behind the cask; and a small man or boy, perhaps Tom Thumb. [2] 'View of the Theatre at Wynnstay. I. Evans Esqr del.' A view of the theatre is framed by a curtain held up (left) by Comedy and right by Tragedy. The façade has the date '1782'. [3] 'Wynnstay. H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Amateur actors and actresses dance in a circle round a high pedestal supporting a bust of (?) Shakespeare. They include a Falstaff leering at a lady in Elizabethan dress, a man wearing a tall leek in his hat (? Fluellen), and a French military officer with long queue and cavalier's boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above images., Three designs arranged in a vertical strip, each with its own title and artist's signature., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate from: The European magazine, and London Review, v. 9 (February 1786), page 71., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Theatre at Wynnstay., and Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feby. 1, 1786, by I. Sewell, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561 (Ursula), and Wynnstay Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Masks, Barrels, Demons, Theaters, and Pedestals
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[1] 'H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Punch (left) points to a large butt or tun inscribed 'WYNNSTAY', from the top of which hang comic masks which encircle its upper circumference; in his right hand is a stick with an ass's head. On the right side of the butt are three figures: Mother Shipton, humpbacked with a profile like Punch's; a demon or satyr, who looks from behind the cask; and a small man or boy, perhaps Tom Thumb. [2] 'View of the Theatre at Wynnstay. I. Evans Esqr del.' A view of the theatre is framed by a curtain held up (left) by Comedy and right by Tragedy. The façade has the date '1782'. [3] 'Wynnstay. H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Amateur actors and actresses dance in a circle round a high pedestal supporting a bust of (?) Shakespeare. They include a Falstaff leering at a lady in Elizabethan dress, a man wearing a tall leek in his hat (? Fluellen), and a French military officer with long queue and cavalier's boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above images., Three designs arranged in a vertical strip, each with its own title and artist's signature., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate from: The European magazine, and London Review, v. 9 (February 1786), page 71., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Theatre at Wynnstay., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 25.8 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of title.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feby. 1, 1786, by I. Sewell, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561 (Ursula), and Wynnstay Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Masks, Barrels, Demons, Theaters, and Pedestals
Three men and two women in a lottery insurance office, one man with quill pen behind desk. The other individuals all hold bills reading "Mess. Gosling & Co. pay the bearer one hundred..." Sign on back wall reads "Tickets insured by Iohnson & Co." and coat of arms of George III is visible on wall to the right. One of the women is a barmaid and holds 2 tankards
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imprint from Lottery magazine.
Publisher:
Edward Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Lottery winners, Lotteries, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Coats of arms, and Clothing & dress
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 August 1839]
Call Number:
839.08.31.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the legal case between two purveyor’s of medical ointments Felix Albinolo and Thomas Holloway in the form of a dialogue between Mr. Bull, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sawney; with an image with a cartouche "Albinolo's, or, The St. Come et St. Damien (brothers & physicians.) Ointment, 23 Earl Street, Blackfriars, London." decorated with an eye (all-seeing?) at the top, snakes on the side, and a lion at the bottom
Alternative Title:
No family ought ever to be without a pot of Albinolo's ...
Description:
Title from text below image., Text above image: No family ought ever to be without a pot of Albinolo's, or the St. Come and St. Damien's Ointment., Attribution to C.J. Grant from his known contributions to the periodical in which this illustration appeared. See: C.J. Grant's political drama. London : University College, c1998, page 12., Illustration from: The Penny satirist. London : B.D. Cousins, v. 3, no. 124 (31 August 1839), page 4., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three figures in a garden: a woman standing with a parasol, a man looking through a telescope, another woman seated; a large tree on the left; a house behind the figures; two women seated on a bench next to the house"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Early (proof?) state of a plate published in Copper-plate magazine with the title "Twickenham Meadows, Middlesex." For the later state with additional details added to the building and figures and with re-etched title, publication line and statements of responsibility, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,0712.874., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 249 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.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feb. 1, 77, by Harrison and Co., No. 18 Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Houses, and Estates
"A young man in profile to the right, with a knotted bludgeon under his arm, holds a fierce mastiff by the collar. This collar, being inscribed 'Hamil[ton]', shows that the duke is Douglas, 8th Duke (1756-95), Duke of Brandon in the English peerage. He has cropped hair and wears the dress of the young blood of 1791, with the star of the Thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tiger and his master
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Printmaker from earlier state with title, 'The Ruffian Duke', and lettered ''Attic Miscellany.' and 'Annabal Scratch fecit' issue in 1791., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., and Cf. No. 7958 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 29., Temporary local subject terms: Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Secret influence -- Sport: cricket bat., and Lower corners cut off diagonally.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The European magazine, 1784, p. 241., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Artillery Ground -- Spy glasses -- Flags: Union Jack -- Barrels., Mounted on verso of cropped title page of: The looking glass or caricature annual, v. 6. London : Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, [1835], and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of courtesan Agnes Townshend numbered 16, and the otherwise unidentified Lord C., numbered 17.
Alternative Title:
E- of C- and Vis à vis Townshend
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777 page 289., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...