"Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ben Jonson
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 28 (leaf numbered '86' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
"Portrait of Louise de Savoie (but falsely named Catherine of Aragon), bust directed to right, wearing a dark head-dress; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal; a cartouche below showing Catherine of Aragon in front of the papal legate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catherine of Aragon
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 99 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:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531,, Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of the couple, half-length behind a table, holding hands; a jester on the right whispering to the Duke's ear, a curtain on the left; three coat-of-arms below the image."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, below the coats of arms., Four lines of verse in two columns etched below image, above the coats of arms: Cloth of gold do not thou dispys ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 129 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1794, by John Simco, Great Queen St.
Subject (Name):
Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,
Title from caption below image. and Mounted on page 7.
Publisher:
Richard Bentley & Son
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Choiseul-Daillecourt, Maxime de, 1782 or 1783-1854,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image., Mounted on page 99 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 laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 22.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
"Portrait of John Fisher, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title and surmounted by the papal tiara and crossed keys, dressed in a fur-trimmed chimere over his rochet with a Canterbury cap on his head, his decapitated head, a mitre and a child carrying a galero below to the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,68.90., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image.
Publisher:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Name):
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535, and Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
"Portrait of Galfridus Walpole, half length to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing large long wig; in oval; with facsimile of signature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second line of title from bottom edge. Complete title supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 142 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Galfridus, 1683-1726 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
"Portrait of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; half-length directed to the left, hands clasped in prayer; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., Engraved after a drawing that was done after a picture kept by Horace Walpole in the chapel at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 175 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:
Pub. May 1, 1783, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Plate from: Pinkerton, J. Iconographia Scotica; or, Portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland. London : I. Herbert, 1797., Mounted on page 102 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 : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 15.5 x 12.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Published 1st November 1794 by I. Herbert, No. 29 Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury
Subject (Name):
James V, King of Scotland, 1512-1542 and Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811