publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 15 July 1746.
Call Number:
Topos It88 no. 4++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an overgrown, ruined, domed classical building, on the left, in a field with uneven ground, bushes and trees, with a house to the right, a statue of a man wearing a laurel wreath on a pedestal in the right foreground and figures, including a boy lying on a piece of fallen masonry to the left, an old man walking towards him and pointing back at a woman who carries a basket on her head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered "3" in lower left corner.
View of the ball at St. James on his Mjesties birth night, View of the ball at St. James on his Majesties birth night, and View of the ball at St. James on his Majesty's birth night
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy in reverse of : A view of the ball at St. James's on her Majesty's birth night., Dated "1770" in an unidentified hand in lower right corner below title., and Mounted.
"View of the gardens with pagoda in middle distance, figures in boat on lake in foreground with footbridge at left, temple of Arethusa at right and trees in left foreground with sheep grazing below"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines below image: They go from the devil to Court, and from the Court to the devil again., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Demons -- Female dress: petticoat -- Allusion to the Princess of Wales -- Games: soap bubbles -- Litearture: quotation from Jonathan Swift., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Social satire: a crowd of invalids and loungers on the North Parade in Bath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Joshua Kirby Baldrey from unverified data in local card catalog record., Published between 1780-1790; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.797., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: North Parade Street -- Prepoint Street -- City buildings -- Walking staves -- Parasols -- Pavement -- Candy in baskets -- Street vending -- Iron fences -- Female costume, 1785 -- Male costume, 1785.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, City & town life, Terraces, Crowds, Staffs (Sticks), Wheelchairs, People with disabilities, Umbrellas, Wheelbarrows, and Street vendors
"View at night of the structure erected for the firework display in St James's Park in 1749, showing the fireworks in action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
View of the public fireworks exhibited on occasion of the general peace concluded October 7, 1748
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from description of varaint state in the British Museum online catalogue., Variant (earlier?) state, showing fewer fireworks, of a print in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Plate numbered "9" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 179 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.
"Millbank, looking westwards towards Chelsea; a man leads an ass laden with vegetables along a road beside the river between trees about to cross a stream in the right foreground, a woman with a mop on her shoulder follows him; two men fish from a boat; on the far side of the river, in Lambeth, a windmill; in the distance the recently opened Battersea Bridge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist attribution from British Museum online catalogue., Publication date based on that of earlier state., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate, of a print published in 1789 by R. Sayer. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is being shaved outside a tent as the group looks on.
Description:
Title from captions below images., Two designs on one plate, each individually titled., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from description in Grego of design on lower half of plate., Plate measurement from later impression in bound volume., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], 1836?], page 76., Reduced copies of nos. 6727 and 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, v. 4., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.9 x 25.3 cm., Imperfect; lower half of sheet trimmed away, leaving only the upper design of two printed from the same plate., and Artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas