Opposite page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Tobias Smollett's Edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' (volume I, page 111); at night, Don Quixote with his foot on the chest of the unhorsed barber, threatens to kill him with a spear; Sancho watching at left with a bird in his hand, a carriage and figures fleeing behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote : translated from the Spanish ... by T. Smollett ... London : Printed for A. Millar [etc.], 1755., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from end of printmaker's signature., "Vol. 1, pag. 111"--Upper left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 18.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
A. Millar etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
"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.
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
"A girl sitting on a chair with weary expression outside a cottage, her parents standing either side of her anxiously, a cat in the left foreground, the sea behind at left with a boat; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
My faither urged me sair, my mither did nae speak ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Two lines of text below image: My faither urged me sair, my mither did nae speak, but she look'd in my face, till my heart was like to break. Auld Robin Gray., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Major John Cartwright; aged 81, three-quarter length, seated in armchair, legs crossed, looking at viewer, his left arm resting on armchair, holding a closed scroll."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different print of the same composition
Description:
Title from facsimile signature beneath image on later state., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Drawn & engraved by H. Meyer., Proof before letters. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published Feb. 21, 1826, for the proprietor Miss Cartwright by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13772)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Early state of a plate from: The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright / edited by his niece, F.D. Cartwright. London : H. Colburn, 1826., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 220 (leaf numbered '43' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Sitter identified as "Major Cartwright (aged 81)" in ink on mounting sheet, in a later hand.
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,
After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and complete loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "65" in lower right corner., Folded to 21.6 x 15.5 cm., and Tipped in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),
After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and partial loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "12" in lower right corner., "Vol. 1, p. 97 "--Lower left corner., Folded to 23.3 x 16.7 cm., and Bound in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),