"Portrait, half-length directed to right, wearing dark clerical vestments, bands and a short white wig, looking towards the viewer with his hands on his knees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printseller identified as J. Faber in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Price 1s. 6d.", After a painting by Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 626., Mounted on page 112 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 32 x 22.7 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and price from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold [by J. Faber] at the Golden Head near the church, Bloomsbury Square
"Portrait, head and shoulders, of an old man with loose, curling hair to his shoulders, and a plain white collar, three-quarter to right, looking down to centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 i. by 1 f. 6 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 30 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 same sheet: Innocent the Tenth.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 30th, 1776, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 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 same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1788]
Call Number:
Drawer 788.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later state with different lettering. Earlier state published ca. 1715 as one of a series of ten plates by Gunst after van Dyck; see British Museum online catalogue, registration number: Kk,5.5.4., Publication date based on that of the bound volume in which this print appears., Plate LXVIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat.
Publisher:
Publish'd by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669,
"Portrait of the poet John Oldham; half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing plain black doublet with small white collar, and shoulder length hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Plate from: Cornwall, B. Effigies poeticae, or, The portraits of the British poets. London : J. Carpenter and Son, 1824.
Publisher:
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square
Subject (Name):
Oldham, John, 1653-1683, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"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,