Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
Volume 2, opposite page 364. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ticket for the ninth day of the trial of Warren Hastings; coat of arms at center, with the motto "sub libertate quietem" beneath
Description:
Title etched within banner above coat of arms; remainder of title etched below coat of arms, with "Ninth day" etched at bottom of plate., Date based on that of the trial, which began in February 1788., With wax seal and contemporary inscription "Tuesday Feb. twenty sixth 1788, James Ely" in brown ink at bottom of sheet. Later pencil annotation on verso identifies the writing as that of James Yorke, Bishop of Ely., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 364 (leaf numbered '183' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Gwydir, Peter Burrell, Baron, 1754-1820.
Two plates on one sheet: top plate is an engraved title page with text. The plate below is a reduced copy of Hogarth's designfor the arms of the Foundling Hospital: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'.
Alternative Title:
Arms of the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from Paulson., Date based on earliest edition of this collection of psalms., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 230., and On page 101 in volume 2.
A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'.
Alternative Title:
Armes for Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from Paulson., Imprint from penciled inscription on the impression in George Steevens's collections., Subtitle appears in the line below printmaker's statement., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 230., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Do. Proof., and On page 101 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs July 31st 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
"Bookplate of John Holland; a female figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear and a shield decorated with the arms of the herald painter John Holland: a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and On page 3 (top right) in volume 1. Plate mark 145 x 119 mm.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a female figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear and a shield decorated with the arms of the herald painter John Holland: a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "John Holland, No. 95."--Ms. note below image., and Mounted on blank verso of printed price sheet for Hogarth prints, p. xix; sheet 235 x 156 mm.
A print after Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'.
Description:
Title, state and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Arms of the Foundling Hospital on the top of indentures., and On page 101 in volume 2.
A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'.
Alternative Title:
Armes for the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from Paulson., Subtitle appears in the line below printmaker's statement., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 230., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: First sketch of Arms for the Foundling Hospital. See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 288., and On page 101 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd, Decr. 22, 1781, by Rd. Livesay, at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
Title written above image in brown ink, in a contemporary hand., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate was issued., Plate from: Carter, F. A journey from Gibraltar to Malaga ... London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1777., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably engraved after the title, formerly owned by Francis Carter and later acquired at auction by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the China Closet at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 191 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
T. Cadell
Subject (Name):
Carter, Francis, -1783 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)