Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Printed on one sheet with another portrait of Steevens by Sayers., and Mounted to 25 x 37 cm.
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
"Three-quarter length, standing, directed, facing and looking to the left, left hand resting on a paper on the table beside him, wearing robes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,1010.19., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 146 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Probably given to Richard Bull by Horace Walpole, as suggested by a note in Walpole's hand mounted below: Lord Orford is extremely obliged to Mr. Bull for the two prints. He has not the plate of Lord Waldegrave, but he believes Lady Waldegrave has; & if she has, he will get one for Mr. Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Text following title: Canada is represented in the figure of an Indian paying homage to her royal conqueror ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and at top., and Written in contemporary hand in the upper right corner: "76"
"Portrait of Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans, nearly half-length, directed very slightly to right, looking ahead, wearing long curly wig and lace collar over doublet; rectangular design, bordered by two lines."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after a painting by Henry Stone., Probably a reissue, with imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state bearing the imprint "London, Pub. July 9th, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, 102 Pall Mall," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no. 1853,0112.1575., Possibly a plate from an edition of Hamilton's Memoirs of Count Grammont., and Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of, approximately 1604-1684, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1170., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., and Mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1783-1810,
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Name of manufacturer and date from pencil annotation on verso., Restrike of a plate from which all earlier imprint statements have been burnished. For the last known imprint of "Published Augt. 4th, 1797, by W. Bent," see Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 8., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate., and Copper plate from which this impression was made was later given to the library. See Lewis Walpole Library: Object 796.00.00.60.
A portrait of Ignatius Sancho, in an oval, half-length facing three-quarter to left, with his right hand on stomach inside vest. Born a slave, he was self-educated and became known as a scholar, playwright, poet, and composer
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of a 1781 print made in London by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Thomas Gainsborough and published by John Nichols., and Mounted to 27 x 19 cm.