A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
A view from Richmond of the Twickenham bank of the Thames, showing (left to right) Pope's villa, Lady Ferrers' summer house, Cross Deep, and Dr. Batty's house (later Poulett Lodge).
Alternative Title:
Pope's villa, Twickenham
Description:
Title and date assigned by curator., Unsigned; attributed to Augustin Heckel., and Previously attributed to Johann Heinrich Mü̈ntz (1727-1798) and inscribed on the wash line mount 'J H Muntz / Pope's Villa Twickenham'. Also on the mount in lower right corner is the ownership stamp 'Scipio' (Henry Scipio Reitlinger).
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England) and Thames River (England),
"Two officers stand together directed to the right, almost in profile, dressed alike. The taller (right) holds a sheathed sword crooked in the left elbow; his shorter and slightly stouter friend stands very erect, and takes his right arm. They wear cocked hats with small plumes and side-tassels, stock and jabot under high-collared tunics, wide crossed belts, high cavalry boots, and gauntlet gloves. They are Robert Christopher Packe, Captain Royal Horse Guards, killed at Waterloo, and Lieut. George Augustus Fenwick."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Two soldiers
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 75 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 18.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Dighton Junr.
Subject (Name):
Packe, Robert Christopher, -1815 and Fenwick, George Augustus, active 1805
Volume 1, page 61. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the western front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Alternative Title:
West front
Description:
Title devised by curator., Note in ink in upper left corner: The west front., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet numbered "2" in upper right corner., Laid down on an ink line mount., Mounted on the following leaf (page 63) is a sheet on which an inscription about the erection and repair of Chichester Cross is reproduced in ink, beneath which is written "Inscription to west front"., and Mounted on page 61 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
"Portrait of William Hayley; half-length leaning against a book; state after 'London 1779' added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 219 (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 421); three-quarter length seated in ecclesiastical robes, looking to left, holding a paper on his lap in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
William Howley, D.D. F.R.S. : Lord Bishop of London
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from later state., Early (proof?) state, with production details only. For a later state with title and imprint added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5597., Publication information inferred from imprint on later state: London, Pubd. July 28, 1817, by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Haymarket., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Bound in before page 559 (leaf numbered '150' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Manuscript title "William Howley - Archbishop of Canterbury" in ink below image.
Volume 1, page 35. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed "R.W. f." in lower left corner; artist with the intials "R.W." is unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., With a faint and mostly illegible pencil annotation below image, which includes the name "Juxon" and the date "1633"., Another portrait drawing is mounted on the same page, beneath which is the ink annotation: Two heads of Archbp. Juxon., and Mounted on page 35 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Volume 1, page 35. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., Beneath image is the ink annotation "Two heads of Archbp. Juxon", which refers to this drawing and another portrait drawing mounted on the same page., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 35 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1791]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, three-quarter length seated directed to right, looking towards the viewer, right hand on the arm of his chair, left hand holding a letter, resting on a table beside an inkpot, wearing a jacket with two buttons fastened over the chest and a chin-length wig, shirt ruffles at the cuffs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Crest bearing the motto "Uni Aequus Virtuti" etched below image, beneath which is a quotation from Horace: Virtutis verae Custos, Quo multae magnaeque secantur Judice lites. Hor., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 261 (leaf numbered '76' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 1, 1791, by T. Payne, Mews Gate