"Double portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1376); the father seated three-quarter length to right, facing the front, with both hands resting on plans laid on a table covered with carpet, which his son, standing beside him, is looking at; shelf behind at left, curtain and pillar at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and imprint from published state: "Reynolds pinxt.", "Watson fecit", "Sold by Ryland & Bryer at the Kings Arms in Cornhill." See British Museum registration no.: 1833,0716.45., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 50.0 x 39.2 cm.
Publisher:
Ryland & Bryer
Subject (Name):
Paine, James, 1717?-1789, and Paine, James, 1745-1829,
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., With Horace Walpole's manuscript annotations in brown ink in lower margin identifying the sitters and their relationships and a note: "The original picture at Strawberry Hill.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 50.5 x 58.4 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., Formerly laid in 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., and A note in pencil on verso, possibly in Frank T. Sabin's hand, mentions "Fritz Reiss Sale, 2900 guineas at Christies", in reference to the sale of another impression of the print in 1923. A second note below, in the same hand but likely written at a different time, asserts that this is the "finest impression of the 1st state known, specially selected by Horace Walpole, for whom the original picture was painted, & inserted by him in his own enlarged & illustrated catalogue of the pictures at Strawberry Hill".
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Members of the Dilettanti Society after Reynolds (Mannings 511); seven men sitting around a table, from left to right: Lord Mulgrave looking to front, Lord Dundas standing examining ring in his raised right hand, Lord Seaforth looking at ring held in his right hand, Charles Greville almost in profile to right, toasting with John Charles Crowle turned to left looking down and the Duke of Leeds, almost in profile, Sir Joseph Banks at front of table to right, holding a ring in his right hand; pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloguer based on British Museum online catalogue's description of similar print, registration no.: and 1902,1011.4121., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1830,0613.7., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Two pieces of tape at top on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Phipps, Constantine, Sir, 1656-1723,, Dundas of Aske, Thomas Dundas, Baron, 1741-1820,, MacKenzie, Kenneth, of Seaforth,, Greville, Charles Francis, 1749-1809,, Crowle, John, 1738-1811,, Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of, 1751-1799,, Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,, and Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
"Lady Diana Beauclerk's two daughters sitting on a bench, Elizabeth, later Lady Herbert, in profile to left, drawing in a sketch-book leaning on her knees; her younger sister Mary, later Countess Jenison Walworth, seated behind on left facing front; curtain, pillar and landscape in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 71 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1780, by F. Bartolozzi, No. 1 Bentinck Street, in Berwick Street, Soho
A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., State from British mezzotinto portraits., After Joshua Reynolds's painting, ca. 1766., and Numbered in manuscript upper left: 75. Printed on gilt-edged paper.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Full length full-face portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux on the left and the much shorter Robert Quarme in profile on the right. Both were ushers in the House of Lords
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Publisher worked in London. See Maxted., Publisher's name is omitted from description in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 11 with three other prints.
Full length full-face portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux on the left and the much shorter Robert Quarme in profile on the right. Both were ushers in the House of Lords
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Publisher worked in London. See Maxted., Publisher's name is omitted from description in the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with drypoint and roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figures in the print are identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their names in letterpress: Sir Francis Molineux and Mr. Quarme.