"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1497); bust-length to right; wearing robes; in a round medallion."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Smollett, T. A complete history of England. London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, v. 11 (1760)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 205 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title from caption etched above image., Plate numbered '37' in upper right corner., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladaes [sic] are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Punch -- Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV., and Mounted to 16 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 15, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at [the] Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
"Two men and two children standing next to a Chinese man in a pillory; river and boat in the background."--Wellcome Library no. 579902i and "A Chinese man undergoing punishment, with his head and right hand locked into a sort of stocks formed of planks of wood onto which are nailed placards, with a guard and onlookers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate issued to accompany: Staunton, G. An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London : G. Nicol, 1797., Numbered "28" in upper right corner of plate., and For a proof state before letters, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.686.
Publisher:
Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol
Subject (Geographic):
China.
Subject (Name):
Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Punishment & torture, Punishment devices, and Pillories
"Irradiated banners carried by four cherubic little boys, followed by a youth blowing a newsboy's horn, are watched by four men who register despair. They are clustered round a decayed post topped by a crown, and are 'Dr. Slop' (Stoddart) and 'Treasury scribes'. A demon (left) beckons them from a cloud. The banners are 'Times' (the largest), 'Examiner', 'Traveller' (an evening paper), and 'News' (like the 'Examiner', a Sunday paper). P. 17: Q, for the qualms that arose when they heard, Hard blows in the contest, they challenged were feared. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Q, for the qualms that arose when they heard hard blows in the contest, they challenged were feared ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 11 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Stoddart, John, 1773-1856, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Banners, Despair, Boys, Newspaper carriers, Bullhorns, Crowns, and Demons
"The meeting taking place in a hall, with gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 64., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 236.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England., England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Interiors, Religious services, and Meetings
Depiction of four glass vessels with sepulchral functions. The two flask-shaped vessels at top were apparently used to hold oils and the pot-shaped vessels below used to hold ashes. These vessels were 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., Text "e vitro" etched at bottom of plate., "Tab. VII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 34 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 22.7 x 20.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Depiction of four glass vessels with sepulchral functions. The two flask-shaped vessels at top were apparently used to hold oils and the pot-shaped vessels below used to hold ashes. These vessels were 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., Text "e vitro" etched at bottom of plate., "Tab. VII"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 44 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 21.4 x 19.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Depiction of four tear-shaped vessels, one at each corner of the plate, with a shorter cup-shaped vessel in the middle. These vessels were 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., Text "e vitro" is etched twice at the bottom of the plate, once below the vessel in the lower left and once below the vessel in the lower right., "Tab. VI"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 33 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 23.7 x 18.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Classical antiquities, Containers, Glassware, and Pottery
Depiction of four tear-shaped vessels, one at each corner of the plate, with a shorter cup-shaped vessel in the middle. These vessels were 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., Text "e vitro" is etched twice at the bottom of the plate, once below the vessel in the lower left and once below the vessel in the lower right., "Tab. VI"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 44 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 22.9 x 17.6 cm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
R. Manby and H.S. Cox
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Classical antiquities, Containers, Glassware, and Pottery
"Representations of Henry III and Queen Eleanor, taken from a stained glass window originally in Bexhill; the king and queen shown three quarter length, under gothic tracery, wearing crowns, with architectural details behind them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henry IIId
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Frontispiece to: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780], v. 1., "Frontispiece to vol. I"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 176 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 on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 12.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Henry III, King of England, 1207-1272 and Eleanor, of Provence, Queen, consort of Henry III, King of England, 1223 or 1224-1291