"Portrait of Thomas Gray; head and shoulders, directed to left, head in profile, wearing a plain open coat, jacket, cravat, high collar and long hair tied at the nape beneath a short wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,0701.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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.
Title from text below image., Place of publication based on sitter's known place of activity., and Date of publication based on year sitter debuted on the London stage as Robin Roughhead in Fortune's frolic; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Edward Knight (1774-1826).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Knight, Edward, 1774-1826, and Allingham, John Till, active 1799-1810.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication surmised from the year Dimond first appeared on stage, per Oxford Dictionary of national biography., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Text above image: Engraved for the Ladies Magazine., Text below title: Alba. Here is my picture &c., and In paper frame: 307 x 254 mm.
A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait standing whole-length in profile to left supporting large lute with her right hand, beside harpsichord in interior, head turned to face front, wearing white satin dress with pearls, lace and ribbon; armchair, pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3229., Mounted on page 198 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., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 50.4 x 35.3 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits C682 no. 2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait standing whole-length in profile to left supporting large lute with her right hand, beside harpsichord in interior, head turned to face front, wearing white satin dress with pearls, lace and ribbon; armchair, pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3229.