Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1762]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length standing to left, looking over his shoulder to right, right arm extended, left holding brushes, a painting stick and palette, wearing a long brown wig, simple coat and open shirt with a cloak draped over his shoulder and flowing behind him; after Hysing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., "Vol. 4, p. 31"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 170 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 16.8 x 13.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
"Interior of the chapel, in Bermondsey; a priest delivering a sermon from pulpit in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 61., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 222.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Philanthropic Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Chapels, Religious services, Interiors, and Pulpits
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Philibert, Comte de Gramont; half length, turned to the right; with long curled wig; wearing lace cravat, sash, and armor
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont ... [Twickenham] : Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Enface de l' epitre"--Upper right corner., Engraved after the picture in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill, which was copied from the original at the convent of the Grands Augustins in Paris., and Mounted on page 51 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Half-length portrait in an oval, Philip Thicknessee looking right, frowning and brow knit
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: Curious facts and anecdotes not contained in the memoirs of Philip Thicknesse ..., and Below title quote from Horace beginning: Absentem qui rodit amicum ...
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 14th, 1790, by J. Ridgway, York Street, St. James's Sque
Half-length portrait in an oval, Philip Thicknessee looking right, frowning and brow knit
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Variant state, with a verse contained in a scroll above Thicknesse's portrait, of frontispiece from Curious facts and anecdotes not contained in the memoirs of Philip Thicknesse ..., Two lines of text quoted from Horace below title: "Absentem qui rodit amicum, "hic niger est, hune, tu Romane caveto! Horat., Four lines of verse in a scroll above image begin: No ties can hold him, no affection bind ..., and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 14th, 1790, by J. Ridgway, York Street, St. James's Sque
"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, bust length in an oval, wearing open shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Philippus Melanthon Germanice dictus Schwartzerd
Description:
Title from text within oval border of image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Sleidanus, J. The general history of the Reformation of the Church ... London : Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke, 1689., Biographical details etched on tablet beneath image: Natus Brettae, Anno 1497, 17 February, Augustanam Confessionem ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.2442., "Pag. 127"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 101 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke
Depiction of an antique painting in fresco. Six figures either sit or stand and the head of a seventh figure, surrounded by ornamentation, is above them. This painting was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Tab. I"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 180 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 18.1 x 21 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Depiction of an antique painting in fresco. Six figures either sit or stand and the head of a seventh figure, surrounded by ornamentation, is above them. This painting was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Tab. I"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 264 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 : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 16.4 x 19.7 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature from lower right and plate numbering from upper right., and For further information, consult library staff.
"View of Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, with two men in the pillory in the centre surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, on the right the equestrian statue of Charles I stands watching over the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 62., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 226.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Charing Cross (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
Title from caption etched above image., One line of text below image: There's honour for you, Sir Iohn Falstaff., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reversed copy of no. 4079-1 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Executions: Tyburn -- Carts with convicts -- Gallows -- Veterans -- Amputees -- Medical: peg leg -- Punishments: stocks., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.