Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Madame du Deffand, half length, in profile to the left, eyes closed, head covered with a bonnet or hooded garment
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 55 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.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1760]
Call Number:
Print01206
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In margin lower right: [rubbed out]., Originally inscribed: R.Pine pinxt. Js McArdell fecit. Madness. Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. May 30th 1760., See: Smith, J. C. British mezzotint portraits, no. 196., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject headings: Patients, psychiatric.
"Britannia leaning against a globe, her limbs severed and lettered wit the names of the colonies: "Virg[inia]; Pennsyl[vania]; New York; New Eng[land]. A ribbon draped across her is lettered "Date Obolum Bellisario", in reference to the fallen Greek general. Behind her lie her shield and her lance, pointing at her heart; beyond are ships at anchor with brooms at their masheads signifying that they are for sale. In the foreground, on the right, is a shattered British oak, and on the right, an olive branch that has fallen from the hand of Pennsylvania."-- British Museum online catalogue for a copy of this same print "The colonies reduced".
Description:
Title from heading above image. Words 'Magna" and "Reduced" larger and in all capitals., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below image: To face page 422, Vol. I., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Cf. A version of an image produced by Benjamin Franklin while in London in 1766 with the title "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd" (see Tim Clayton, War of Words, in V. Bajou (ed.), Versailles and the American Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Versailles, 2016, and, "Magna Britannia: her Colonies Reduc'd".
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from creators' nationalities., Published: Attic Miscellany I: 121., Sheet trimmmed within plate mark with loss of artist's inscriptions. Information is supplied from copy in the Wellcome Collection., Attic Miscellany I, p. 121., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Magnetic healing, Quacks and quackery, Magnets, Sick persons, Dogs, Urination, Snuff, and Quacks & quackery
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., In image upper right: 35., Place of publication supplied by curator., Caption below image: The Figures represent Man in his compleat Body, composed by Bones, Flesh & Skin ..., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, Human body, Physicians, Students, and Muscles
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Nine small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Veil made by a protestant to prevent the spread of popery among the fair sex, the worker trusting if this pattern were adopted no one would hereafter take the veil; Novel-ties in fast colours ..., and Numbered '2' in the upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet; each individually captioned: A lovely Grecian gothic arabasque, watered drawing room paper, in the style of Louis XIV from the school of design; State bedstead ..., and Numbered '6' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Proverbial parian pottery, a butter boat, illustrating the adage of there being more ways of killing a dog thank choking him with butter, rejected because there are "no dogs admitted"; "The addle" a poetical egg cup ..., and Numbered '5' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 plates.