"Portrait of Marie de Bretagne, Duchess of Montbazon, bust-length, slightly turned to the left, with curly hair, pearl earring, pearl necklace, and dress with square neckline."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A Madame la Duchesse de Montbazon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3886., Dedication to the Duchess of Montbazon by Jean Leblond engraved below image: Quoy qu'il ne soit pas possible, Madame, que l'art puisse bien representer l'extreme beauté ... Vostre tres-humble, et tres-obeissant seruiteur Iehan le Blond ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 63 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:
Jean Leblond
Subject (Name):
Montbazon, Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de, 1610-1657,
Title from text below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Text within image: Hilloa! Ben here's the rigger for you, may hap he'll find the arms you lost at Trafalgar. Shiver my timbers! I wonder if he finds legs.
Publisher:
Published by Alfred E. Harrison, 5 White Hart Ct., Lombard St., Gambart & Co., and Printed by P. Jerrard, 206 Fleet Street
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
"Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, half-length, turned to right; in armour, with insignia of the Order of the Garter; in trompe l'oeil masonry border"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., and Numbered in manuscript in lower left corner: "No 91."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,
An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk at the husband's elbow is a book with a spine label "L'École des vieillards" and at his feet he has thrown his quill pen and the account book with the label "Dépense".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Series title and number from caption above image., Printmaker's name letterd in image on the base of the harp., This plate was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 12 June 1824. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 2003,0630.14., and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Desks, Harps, Interiors, Parlors, and Writing materials