Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker from other prints from the series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds.
"Cupid mourning, standing in front of the tomb of Queen Mary, hands crossed over his breast, looking down to left at a banderolle inscribed 'Pastora is no more' lying on the edge of the dais on which the casket stands, wearing an empty quiver and cloak, his broken bow and arrows cast on the ground nearby; the tomb decorated with swag and the Garter star; mountains in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
John Smith
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694 and Cupid (Roman deity),
Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, collector
Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
Folio 64 Es75 768 Index
Container / Volume:
Index
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
A manuscript index to William A. Foyle's extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and antiquities of the county of Essex 1768 London edition, listing 868 prints, drawings, and maps used to expand the already illustrated two volume work into five folio volumes. The additional plates included maps (included some hand-colored maps), portraits of kings, nobility, criminals, and other significant personalities; views, scenery, and plans of towns; historical monuments, ruins, castles, manors, and country houses; churches and abbeys; tombs and monuments, coats of arms, genealogies, and antiquities; some satires and a print of teh Fairlop Fair. In addition to 21 original drawings, the collection includes representative examples of a range of mediums used in printmaking since the 17th-century and into the late 19th-century: woodcuts, mezzotints, aquatints, steel engravings, stipple engravings, etching, aquatint, lithography, and wood engraving, including many that are hand-colored or, for later production processes, colored as issued; also included are images from London magazine and the Universal magazine as well as privately printed plates. Some of the earlier mezzotints and engravings are in proof states and The entries in the index reference the artist and printmaker when known and lthe list inlcudes: George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, William Smith, Bernard Baron, James Smith, Simon Watts, Lucas Vorsterman, William Byrne, Charles Turner, Vitor Maire Vicot, George Hawkins, W.H. Byrne, John Claude Nattes, James McArgell, William Franklin, T. Athow, Andrea Freschi, R. Cooper, Samuel Buck, John Coney, Richard Houston, Thomas Nugent, John Simon, Henry Shaw, John Faber, Charles Mosley, Pierre Charles Canot, Edward Harding, Jospeh Ryland, Isaac Beckett, Thomas Wright, and Pierre Lombart. The artists of the original art included are: T. (Thomas) Athow and John Laporte, as well as several unidentified artists
Description:
Index is on 28 unnumbered leaves, with blanks before and following.
Title from text above and below image., Text in speech bubble begins: Beg pardon, hope no offence ..., Description based on imperfect impression; most of the text in speech bubble has been erased and replaced with manuscript text., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A burlesque coat of arms of the city of Preston, evidently relating to a contested election of that city's parliamentary representative, probably John Burgoyne. A mayor with staff of office is on the left and a woman holding a chamber pot on the right. She stands behind an older horned man (a cuckold). The central escutcheon depicts a lamb, with Folly in a fools-cap as the crest
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Isaac Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Preston (Lancashire, England) and England
Subject (Name):
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792., Great Britain. Parliament, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
"Interior of part of Westminster Abbey, from the aisle by Poet's Corner, looking into the nave; a vaulted ceiling above connecting with large arches to the left marking the aisle; a group of three figures in foreground in shadow to the left, another group further on"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist and printmaker from impression in the British Museum with production details: F. Nash delint. ; G. Hawkins fecit., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly a proof state lacking statements of responsibility., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A short man on the left stands in profile, chapeau bras, pointing towards a very large man approaching him from the right
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '6' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1763? -- Wigs: bag wigs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials I C H below.
Verse begins: "Ye commons and peers,", Attributed to Benjamin Bragge as vendor by Foxon on strength of a Daily Courant advertisement., Fourteen stanzas in this edition., Mounted on leaf 48. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
sold by Benjamin Bragge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Steeples, Campaigns & battles, Massacres, and History
A exciseman stands in profile facing to the left. His lower lip protrudes, and his chest is thrown out
Description:
Title inscribed in ink, lower right: Jack in office., Attributed to Dighton based on published print of the same title., Date based on publication date. Original sketch of British Museum 8395A?, Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and Watermark.
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, Excise tax, Inkstands, and Taxes