"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed arms at left, a church building behind a high wall before which a carriage is waiting behind; circular design, after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
La Fleur part de Montreuil
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Verses in English and French below title; English verses begin: "La Fleur kissed their hands round & round again, and thrice he wiped his eyes, and thrice he promised ...", Mounted on page 35 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching in sepia ink on laid paper ; circular image 30.5 cm, on sheet 40.9 x 36.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 28th, 1781, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 31. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
First interview of Werter and Charlotte
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Charms, that the bliss of Eden might restore, that Heaven might envy, & mankind adore; I saw - and oh what heart could long rebel, I saw - I lov'd - and bade the world farewell., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 31 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; circular sheet 31.3 cm., and Sheet cut into a circular shape, with all text and with the corners of the image trimmed away.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 16, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
A copy of the Hogarth's Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler's poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
Alternative Title:
Hudibras. Frontispiece
Description:
Title from text above image., After Hogarth., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Five lines of explanatory text below image: The bass relief on the pedestal represents the general design of Mr. Butler in his incomparable poem Hudibrass ..., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 504., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet annotated in brown ink in a contemporary hand: "Twelve plates" written above image and "35" is written in upper right corner. Two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
"A young shepherdess at left leads her flock through a stream, approaching a piper sitting on rocks at right, mountains behind; oval design; after Kauffman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint at bottom of plate includes publisher's name and street address; secondary publication statement immediately below image includes publication date., 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., Illustration to Marmontel's moral tale 'The shepherdess of the Alps'., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.
"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door ..., another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist from statement of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Proof before letters. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and imprint "London, Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson ..." below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 123 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
W. Dickinson
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Abbeys, Monks, Doors & doorways, and Bells
A group of amateur watercolor drawings that illustrate various scenes from Clara Reeve's Gothic novel The old English baron. The drawings are inserted throughout the printed text of the fourth edition, bound in near the scenes that are depicted. Although untitled, the drawings have been assigned titles that derive from the text
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Each drawing is signed 'C. Boyle' and most are dated with the month, day, and year of production. The artist is probably Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1769-1831), who married Lord Henry Fitzgerald in 1791; she legally changed her name to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros in 1806, after successfully petitioning to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros and becoming 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley., Bound in a copy of: Reeve, C. The old English baron: a Gothic story. London : Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]., Lacking the two published plates., Bound in vellum with gilt edges and tooling and with pink silk endpapers., Extra-illustrated with eight watercolor drawings on vellum, produced by Charlotte Boye in 1789 (these drawings are cataloged separately)., Autograph (Fitz-Gerald?) scratched out on page iii., and In red case.
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),
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