Maurer, John, active 1720-1742, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 181. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View in the park with spectators watching the parade, as George II makes his way to the House of Lords, showing the Horse Guards and the Treasury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la parade dans le Parc de St. James : le Treser, le nouveau batiment de Gardes a Cheval, et la procession du Roy allant a la Chambre des Seigneurs
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., "An earlier state of this print was first listed in John Bowles's catalogue for 1753, in the series 'Perspective Views in and about London', p.44, number 19"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,9.27., Plate from: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London : Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Plate numbered "5" beneath lower right corner of image., Folded to 25.5 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 181 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
W. Innys and J. Richardson, etc.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760,, Horse Guards (London, England : Building),, and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Parks, Government facilities, Soldiers, Parades & processions, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
"View in the park with spectators watching the parade, as George II makes his way to the House of Lords, showing the Horse Guards and the Treasury"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la parade dans le Parc de St. James : le Treser, le nouveau batiment de Gardes a Cheval, et la procession du Roy allant a la Chambre des Seigneurs
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state of a print originally published in 1753. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "35" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from text below image., Questionable date of publication from manuscript annotation in pencil on similar print in The Lewis Walpole Library. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Topos L847 no. 120+., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
"View looking across the Temple onto the River Thames beyond; elegantly dressed figures in foreground, a carriage on the left and a sedan chair on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Temple à costé de la riviere
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner., and Window mounted to 37 x 52 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Relief shown by hachures., Appears in William Faden's Atlas of battles of the American Revolution. [1845], Oriented with north to the left., Indexed for points of interest., Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image., and Library copy annotated "12" in black ink at lower right.
Verse begins: "Henry our royal King would ride a hunting,"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In four columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Mounted on leaf 5. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
First line: "Here night and day conspire a secret flight:"., LWL: imperfect copy, lacking p. 3-4., Mounted on leaf 65. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
A fashionably dressed young woman in a low-cut dress sits talking to an old (bearded but not bald) cleric in monastic habit who holds her hand. Behind the pair another monk peeks around the door smirking. Above the door a painting shows semi-clothed figures. Miss Tittup was a character in Garrick's "Bon Ton".
Alternative Title:
Miss Titups visit to Father Bald-pate and Miss Tit ups visit to Father Bald-pate
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Monasticism and religious orders, Paintings, and Clothing & dress
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Title from first two lines of verse., Mounted on leaf 4. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.