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1. Sir Joshua Reynolds from the original picture, painted by himself, in the Council Room of the Royal Academy / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 May 1809]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait, after a self-portrait (Mannings 21); half-length to right and turned to face front, wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Bound in opposite page 108 (leaf numbered '157' 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:
- Published May 8, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
- Subject (Name):
- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British, and Robes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Joshua Reynolds from the original picture, painted by himself, in the Council Room of the Royal Academy / [graphic]
2. Sr. James Thornhill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of Sir James Thornhill, slightly turned to the right
- Alternative Title:
- Sir James Thornhill
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86., and On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to:
- Publisher:
- S. Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sr. James Thornhill [graphic]
3. Sr. James Thornhill [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.44 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of Sir James Thornhill, slightly turned to the right
- Alternative Title:
- Sir James Thornhill
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86.
- Publisher:
- S. Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sr. James Thornhill [graphic]
4. The complicated R-n [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy after the 1734 print from a design by W. Hogarth. The artist Jonathan Richardson, seated at a table, looks through a telescope that is aimed at the bare bottom of his son who stands on the table before him. Through his son the father looks at a volume of "Virgil [A]enid" which lies open on the shelf above. With his right hand he writes with a quill pen on a sheet of paper with the heading 'Note'. On the other shelves along the wall are paintings and small statuary; on the wall below the shelves is a portrait of Milton. On the floor in the lower right edge is an artist's palette and an easel. A dog jumps and barks at the son's feet
- Alternative Title:
- Complicated Richardson
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Signed within image: WH f. [i.e., Wm. Hogarth fecit]., Text below image: "I know well enough my eye is no eye at all. I must apply to my telescope. My son is my telescope, tis by his help I read [the] learned languages.", Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £14-0--0., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 19.7 x 12.6 cm.
- Publisher:
- S. Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The complicated R-n [graphic]
5. The complicated R-n [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.50 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A copy after the 1734 print from a design by W. Hogarth. The artist Jonathan Richardson, seated at a table, looks through a telescope that is aimed at the bare bottom of his son who stands on the table before him. Through his son the father looks at a volume of "Virgil [A]enid" which lies open on the shelf above. With his right hand he writes with a quill pen on a sheet of paper with the heading 'Note'. On the other shelves along the wall are paintings and small statuary; on the wall below the shelves is a portrait of Milton. On the floor in the lower right edge is an artist's palette and an easel. A dog jumps and barks at the son's feet
- Alternative Title:
- Complicated Richardson
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Signed within image: WH f. [i.e., Wm. Hogarth fecit]., Text below image: "I know well enough my eye is no eye at all. I must apply to my telescope. My son is my telescope, tis by his help I read [the] learned languages.", and Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86.
- Publisher:
- S. Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The complicated R-n [graphic]
6. The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1807]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The design is surrounded on the upper and side margins by a festooned curtain; from this, in the upper corners, smiling heads look out supporting a chain of prints, small copies of plates in the volume, overlapping one another. These form a border to the central figure, who stands, like a showman, addressing the spectator, arms extended, opera-hat in his right. hand. He resembles the man who stands chapeau-bras in British Museum satire No. 10889. Behind him (left and right) stand six grinning figures, men and women, who listen to him. All seven are grotesque figures with large heads, typical of Woodward's 'Lilliputians' (cf. Museum Satire No. 9635). He says (the words etched above his head across the centre of the design): "Ladies and Gentlemen having compleated the first volume of the Caricature Magazine I am desired in the names of the Proprietors. Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large-long [see British Museum Satire No. 10604, &c], and small headed Bretheren to return you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced, in this the commencement of our exertions, and at the same time to assure you that neither pains nor expence shall be spared to merit your future patronage, you are requested to be as early as possible in giving your orders for the first number of the second volume, for the present Ladies and Gentlemen we most respectfully take our Leave." At the base of the design, flanking a tablet on which the title is etched in small letters are (left) ink-stand, book: 'Sketches from Nature', and a rolled print or drawing. On the right are painting materials: palette, with brushes, and mahl-stick, small bags of (powdered) colour, porte-crayon, and another print or sketch. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ladies and gentlemen, having compleated the first volume of Caricature magazine ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Design incorporates small representations of prints included in the Caricature magazine; see British Museum catalogue for identifications of the depicted prints., Central figure is most likely a caricature of G.M. Woodward., Tailpiece to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Watermark: Basted Mill., and Leaf 99 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Septr. 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]
7. The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.09.01.01+
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The design is surrounded on the upper and side margins by a festooned curtain; from this, in the upper corners, smiling heads look out supporting a chain of prints, small copies of plates in the volume, overlapping one another. These form a border to the central figure, who stands, like a showman, addressing the spectator, arms extended, opera-hat in his right. hand. He resembles the man who stands chapeau-bras in British Museum satire No. 10889. Behind him (left and right) stand six grinning figures, men and women, who listen to him. All seven are grotesque figures with large heads, typical of Woodward's 'Lilliputians' (cf. Museum Satire No. 9635). He says (the words etched above his head across the centre of the design): "Ladies and Gentlemen having compleated the first volume of the Caricature Magazine I am desired in the names of the Proprietors. Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large-long [see British Museum Satire No. 10604, &c], and small headed Bretheren to return you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced, in this the commencement of our exertions, and at the same time to assure you that neither pains nor expence shall be spared to merit your future patronage, you are requested to be as early as possible in giving your orders for the first number of the second volume, for the present Ladies and Gentlemen we most respectfully take our Leave." At the base of the design, flanking a tablet on which the title is etched in small letters are (left) ink-stand, book: 'Sketches from Nature', and a rolled print or drawing. On the right are painting materials: palette, with brushes, and mahl-stick, small bags of (powdered) colour, porte-crayon, and another print or sketch. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Ladies and gentlemen, having compleated the first volume of Caricature magazine ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Design incorporates small representations of prints included in the Caricature magazine; see British Museum catalogue for identifications of the depicted prints., Central figure is most likely a caricature of G.M. Woodward., Tailpiece to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published 1st Septr. 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature magazine [graphic]
8. Thomas Gainsborough, Esq. R.A. from the original picture painted by himself, in the Council Room of the Royal Academy / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 November 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Head-and-shoulders self-portrait of English painter Thomas Gainsborough, facing right and "Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, after his self-portrait; half length, to the right, head turned to the front, his hair lightly curled over ears, wearing jacket fastened at waist and cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 686 (leaf numbered '129' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Published Nov. 27, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
- Subject (Name):
- Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, and Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Thomas Gainsborough, Esq. R.A. from the original picture painted by himself, in the Council Room of the Royal Academy / [graphic]
9. [G. Morland] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Edwards, William Camden, 1777-1855, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1830]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of George Morland; half length, to the left, holding drawing of woman, head turned to look at viewer; after Muller; illustration to Cunningham's 'Lives of the Painters' (London: 1830)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state
- Description:
- Title from published state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on published state: Robt. Muller ; W.C. Edwards., Proof before letters. For the published state with the imprint "London, Published by John Murray, Albemarle St., 1830," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.30.58., Proof state of a plate from: Cunningham, A. The lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects. London : J. Murray, 1830-39 (v. 2, opposite page 222)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 687 (leaf numbered '130' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- John Murray
- Subject (Name):
- Morland, George, 1763-1804,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [G. Morland] [graphic].