"Ticket for the funeral of Reynolds; a monument in the centre; on the left, a woman with a veil standing, holding an urn, leaning over the monument; a naked child next to her, looking up towards her; after Burney; open-letter state with additional inscription."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Inscription below image: "The executors & family of Sir Joshua Reynolds return thanks for the tribute of respect paid to departed genius & virtue, by your attendance at the funeral of that illustrious painter & most amiable man, in St. Pauls Cathedral, on Saturday, March 3rd, 1792.", Caption in center of image in Latin., and On page numbered 13 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson., Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:"., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: ibidem., and On page 187 in volume 2.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the second edition published May 21, 1761., Location in volume lacking in this second plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the first edition published January 28, 1761., "Vol. 4 Page 112"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
"Title-page to 'Angelica's Ladies Library', with a roundel scene showing cupids harvesting wheat, two resting and looking up at another pair who carry a sheaf to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue copy: Cf. museum registration no. 1977,U.1219., Lettered below image: "Ev'ry moral charm, That leads in sweet captivity the mind To virtue. Thomson.", Sheet trimmed to design, resulting in loss of lettering., and On page numbered 47 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players., Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression., A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note added below image: 1828.
Title supplied by cataloger., Faint pencil notation, partially legible: "9125 large plate of design with variation on the hand.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 32 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Two soldiers shown full-length engaged in a fight. The bayonet of the solder on the left is pierced through the chest of the soldier on the right whose sword is drawn over his head and ready to strike
Description:
Title devised by curator., Ms. note in pencil on sheet above plate mark: Not in Nichols's book., and Formerly on page 108 in volume 2. Removed from Steevens volume by LWL conservator in 2012.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr.1, 1791 by W. Birch, Hampstead Heath from a drawing by Hogarth