Third leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View from the south lawn of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with a couple and two children and their two dogs walking to the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Mounted on third leaf following title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 16.0 x 19.7 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly, at No. 46 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Second leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham; with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on second leaf following title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 15.8 x 20.1 cm, inlaid to 21 x 27 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament G. Kearsly in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
"View of the grand house at Kenwood with walled garden, seen from the passing road; three figures on horseback riding by, a couple walking to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "The design is attributed to [Jefferyes Hamett] O'Neale on stylistic grounds; the lively spotted dog is typical of his work"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5592., Fourth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 49 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Hampstead (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 and Kenwood House (Hampstead, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, Garden walls, Horseback riding, and Dogs
"View of the mansion from across the lake, a couple in the foreground to the left looking at the house, a dog sniffing the grass near them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lake House, belonging to Sir James Tilney Long, on the Ilford Road, Essex
Description:
Title engraved below image., Tenth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 57 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Tylney-Long, James, Sir, 1736-1794 and Wanstead House (England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, Dwellings, and Lakes & ponds
Volume 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., Mounted on page 127 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 39.3 x 49.9 cm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, and Children
"View of the villa, with Ionic portico at entrance; a fence surrounding grounds; in foreground a carriage passes on road."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., First in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; at top is the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "1" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 46 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Kentish Town (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Estates, Dwellings, Porticoes (Porches), Fences, and Carriages & coaches
"Outside a thatched cottage, partly visible on the left, Paris, a loutish peasant, hands the apple to an old harridan holding a fan and wearing a very wide hoop. Cupid, a hideous boy, holding a bow, is partly concealed by her petticoat. Juno (?), a hideous hag, strides towards them, brandishing a bottle. Minerva (?) in a soldier's coat and grenadier's cap, inscribed "J.R." [?Juno Regina], walks away to the right. looking over her shoulder; one fist is clenched, she carries a bottle and is smoking a pipe. One sheep (left) stands behind Paris who is holding a crook. A basket and his hat are on the ground. In the foreground his dog chases the peacock and the owl. Two doves fly over the head of Venus. Two broadsides are pasted on the cottage wall: one headed "Gods . . ." the other, "Thos the Wood Lous" (?). Mountains are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publisher's name and month of publication in imprint have been mostly burnished from plate., Text in upper left margin, preceding title: Jun: But to bestow it on that trapes it mads me. Min: Hang him jackanapes., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Venus., Mounted on page 83 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 17.9 x 20.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by [...]
Subject (Name):
Cupid (Roman deity), and Juno (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):
Paris (Legendary character), Minerva, Dwellings, Peasants, Fans (Accessories), Military uniforms, Bottles, Pipes (Smoking), Sheep, Baskets, Dogs, Peacocks, Owls, and Doves
"Caricature with a family of a working man, his wife and daughter dressed in fashionable clothes, with a cottage and pig on a dung-hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine).
Alternative Title:
March of intellect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century, Dust-man & family of the 19th century, and Dustman and family of the nineteenth century
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from publisher's street address. John Lewis Marks is recorded at 17 Artillery Street in 1824; see British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1985,0119.338., For a companion print entitled "The march of interlect, or, A sweep & family of the 19th century", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2008,7088.1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Formerly mounted with remnants of blue paper.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate
Subject (Topic):
Dustmen, Families, Clothing & dress, Dwellings, and Swine
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and "Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a Greek inscription and mock coat-of-arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Charles Christian the engraver and Humphrey Skelton the upholsterer, notorious for their bad tempers lived, perhaps together, in the house, which acquired the name Bear's Den Hall by virtue of their eccentricities., and Titled 'W. prospect of Bears Den Hall, in the county of Surrey.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Putney.
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,