"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, eyes to front, wearing plain dark coat, white cravat and frill and badge on ribbon around neck, his hair short; landscape seen beyond, behind raised curtain; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
James King Esqr. : Master of the Ceremonies at Bath & Cheltenham
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: Painted & engraved by I [sic] I.R. Smith., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Publication information inferred from imprint on lettered state: London, Pub. Feb. 1, 1805, by I.R. Smith, 31, King Street, Covt. Garden, & R. Ackerman, 101, Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 178 (leaf numbered '216' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering and before drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering but after drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Major John Cartwright; aged 81, three-quarter length, seated in armchair, legs crossed, looking at viewer, his left arm resting on armchair, holding a closed scroll."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different print of the same composition
Description:
Title from facsimile signature beneath image on later state., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Drawn & engraved by H. Meyer., Proof before letters. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published Feb. 21, 1826, for the proprietor Miss Cartwright by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13772)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Early state of a plate from: The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright / edited by his niece, F.D. Cartwright. London : H. Colburn, 1826., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 220 (leaf numbered '43' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Sitter identified as "Major Cartwright (aged 81)" in ink on mounting sheet, in a later hand.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was completed shortly before Locke's death, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is a portrait of Mr. John Lock, author of the Letters on Toleration, the Essay on Human Understanding, on Coinage, & many other valuable pieces, sketch'd from a painting & afterwards (not long before his decease) finished up from the life, by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
"Portrait; three-quarter length, standing in the open in naval uniform with sword, a rock and sea behind."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
John Willett Payne Esqr., Rear Admiral of the Red, Vice Admiral of the Coasts of Devonshire & Cornwall ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist from statement of responsibility on lettered state: John Hoppner Esqr. R.A. pinxt., Proof before letters. For a lettered state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1856,0308.14., Publication information inferred from imprint on lettered state: London, Pub'd Novr. 12, 1813, by Colnaghi & Co., 23, Cockspur Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 402 (leaf numbered '14' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Samuel Johnson is shown full-length on the left, facing right and apparently asleep standing up; his knees are bent, his eyes are closed, and his head rests on his left hand. A second man stands on the right, hands in his coat pockets, looking over at Johnson; this figure may be Sir John Hawkins
Alternative Title:
Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Alternative title from description of original drawing in: Riely, J. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Library, 1973, no. 48., After a drawing that is probably the work of Samuel Collings., Printmaker attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
A semi-comic gift card showing the eight stages of matrimony: Possession, Rumination, Alteration, Irritation, Disputation, Desperation, Detestation, and Separation. Each stage is described with four lines of verse and with vignette scenes of a husband and wife
Alternative Title:
Possession
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date conjectured from style of dress., and Issued with two blue bows at the top, right and left.
A small print depicting a scene from Homer's Odyssey as he sails back to his home in Ithaca: Two Laestrygonian, who are giants, one who upends one Odysseus's ships as other eats one of the men as the fail into the sea. The high cliffs of Lamos is in the distance on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possibly a book illustration?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Laestrygonians (Greek mythology), Giants (Fictitious characters), Cannibalism, and Ships