"Portrait of the historian William Beckford; a silhouette, bust, in profile to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The monthly mirror. London : T. Bellamy, 1795-1811., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.4 x 10.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
"Portrait of the historian William Beckford; a silhouette, bust, in profile to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The monthly mirror. London : T. Bellamy, 1795-1811., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 16.3 x 11.0 cm, on sheet 18.0 x 11.9 cm., and Sheet stained by ink across image.
"Portrait of the historian William Beckford; a silhouette, bust, in profile to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The monthly mirror. London : T. Bellamy, 1795-1811., and Number "59" written in ink in upper right corner of sheet, in a contemporary hand.
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; circular image 7.2 cm, on sheet 12.1 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of imprint and text above image., and Window mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; circular image 7.2 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 12.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title etched below image., Artist identified as P. Sauvage in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate from: The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147., "European magazine."--Above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; circular image 7.2 cm, on sheet 17.6 x 11.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; window mounted to 29 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1797, by J. Sewell, No. 32 Cornhill
Title from text below image., Approximate date of publication assigned by curator., Photomechanical reproduction of a stipple engraving, originally made by Joseph Singleton after P. Sauvage, that was published as a plate to The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147. Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 152., and "From the engraving in the European Magazine, 1797."--Below title.
Fortune, blindfolded and with one foot on her wheel, is guided by Wisdom who wears a plumed helmet and carries a spear. They stand on a cloud while a putto walks between them showering banknotes on the Hibernian Magazine's readers, who celebrate on the right side of the foreground, while snakes and demonic figures are kept at bay to the left
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian Magazine, was located at Dame Street, Dublin from 1770-1786., and At top of image: "Frontispiece" (probably from the Hibernian Magazine ca. 1775).
Titles from text above or below each image., Printmaker identified as J.S. Müller in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the print was issued., Plate from: London Magazine. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), page 591., and Images of three portrait medallions on one plate, each individually titled.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770,, Townsend, James, -1787,, and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795,