Half-length, portrait of Joseph Carreras, Spanish poet and chaplain to Catherine of Braganza
Description:
Title from text below image., Retouched state, with inscription beneath sitter's name erased and re-engraved in smaller letters; this is the third state according to Whitman, and the second state according to J.C. Smith., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Lettered below title with the measurements of the original picture and the Walpole crest with motto 'Fari Quae Sentiat'., Plate 15 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On verso in Walpole's hand: F. Walker.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1775, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"Portrait of Joseph Harris in character as Cardinal Wolsey; half-length standing holding a scroll, looking away to right with a frown, wearing a gown, cloak, plain collar and peaked soft hat; a building with arched windows and tall pillars seen through an arched window behind to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., After a portrait by John Greenhill. See description of later state in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate later published in: Waldron, F.G. The Shakspearean miscellany ... London : Printed by Knight and Compton, 1802., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 452., Mounted on page 257 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:
Pub. Augt. 29, 1793, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Harris, Joseph, approximately 1650-approximately 1715,
"Portrait of Joseph Richardson, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, in double-breasted jacket; after Sir Martin Archer Shee; finished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, Frontispiece to: Literary relics of the late Joseph Richardson, Esq. ... London : Printed for J. Ridgway, 1807., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 438 (leaf numbered '52 in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Ridgway
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803, and Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803.
Portrait after a painted sketch by Hogarth; head and shoulders to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a gown with a plain cravat and full-bodied jaw-length wig
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st 1788 by Molton & Co. 132, Pall Mall
"Portrait of William III, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing an ermine cape and collar of the Order of the Garter; in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond; a crown and sceptre on a pedestal before the portrait; a small scene with two allegorical figures in a roundel below; with inscription below; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King William the Third
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "At Kensington Palace.", Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top.
Title from text in image., Artist and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
"Portrait, three-quarter length, seated; hair in curls, earring, necklace, and bejewelled dress; one hand holding a snarling dog in her lap, the other hand held under a spout of water falling into a basin; in the background, a curtain and a pillar, and trees in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.368., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 3 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Tho. Bowles map & printseller next to the Chapter St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Braganza, Queen, consort of Charles II, King of England, 1638-1705,
"Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Fourth state according to Baker, with title in finished letters., and Bound in opposite page 584 (leaf numbered '14' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published by W. Sharp
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, and Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854.
"Outline sketches of the principal figures in Craig's painting of the death of Nelson, 1806."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above image., Artist, publlisher, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.4583., List of the identities of the sitters is etched below image., and "Price 1..1..0"--Following title.