A view of Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After a design by Canaletto. For an engraving of the same scene in reverse, published by Robert Sayer in 1752, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2450
Alternative Title:
View of the canal, Chinese building, rotunda, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquerade, Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade, and Masquerade angloise
Description:
Title etched below image., Additional title "Masquerade angloise" at top of plate, etched as a mirror image., Signed in lower right corner with an illegible printmaker's signature., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., A 'vuë d'optique', designed to be viewed through an optical viewer that gives a sense of depth perspective; the scene is reversed, as is the additional title at top., Manuscript number "9" written in ink at bottom of sheet, centered., Mounted on board., and Windows of the rotunda in image cut out by hand and inset with hand-painted multi-color inserts, which appear illuminated when a light is held from behind.
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 9, p. 1., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bank-notes -- Bags of money -- Brooms -- Row-boats -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Allusion to Lord North budget speech, 1 May 1772 -- Financial crisis, 1772 -- Allusion to speculation.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Title below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Novr. 1768., Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Printed by Edw. Cave ..., v. 38 (1768), p. 450., Temporary local subject terms: Balls: masquerade -- Costume., and Window mounted to 17 x 22 cm.
"View of a waterfall in a canyon with forest surrounding, two small figures standing on the edge of rocks, sun rays piercing through the clouds."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Vue de l'Cataracte du Passaick, ou Seconde Riviere, dans la province de Nouveau Jersey and View of the falls on the Passaic, or Second River, in the province of New Jersey
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., State with blank space preceding year "1761" in imprint statement. For another state with day and month "20 May" engraved within that space, see British Library online catalogue, shelfmark: Maps K.Top.122.31.b., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of 28 plates in the series: Scenographia Americana., and For a later issue of the plate, with new imprint listing John Bowles, Robert Sayer, and three others as publishers, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.946.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1761, by Thos. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martins Lane
"A satirical print showing George III with attendant ladies making his way towards a side door of the palace; and the attempted assassination by Margaret Nicholson; a young boy with a dog runs towards the king in the left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vûe de l'entrée au Jardin du Palais Royal de St. Jacques
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and One of a series of plates, originally engraved for John Bowles in the mid-eighteenth century, that were reissued ca. 1840 for Francis West's A collection of Views of old London and its environs. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by F. West, 83, Fleet St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828,
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 3, 1748.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 31+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
View of the great fireworks on account of [the] general peace
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: This elegant piece of architecture is 410 long & 105 feet high, is embellish'd with statues of Justice, Prudence, Fortitude ..., and Sheet numbered "130" in ink in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Tho. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"View of the Piazza of the Annunziata looking south."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on earlier state with "Publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1750" etched below image. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, facing Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"View showing the north front of Bethlem Hospital, looking across the gardens; figures in foreground and on paths outside hospital."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the hospital of Bethlem and Vü̈e de hopital de Bethlehem
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.4016., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., and Leaf 16 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Eleven views in three rows, arranged around a larger central image of "A view of the island of St. Helena"; the ten smaller views, four in the top row, two in the middle row, and four in the third row, show images of various boats, ships and other sailing vessels on the sea
Alternative Title:
View of the island of Saint Helena
Description:
Titles etched below images., Publication date based on date assigned by Isaac to other Davison prints., Plate numbered "45" in upper right corner., and Not in: Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
Saint Helena
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Sailing ships, Warships, British, and French