"Portrait of Mrs Lawson, nearly whole length, seated to front in a landscape, with head slightly tilted to left, looking to front; her right hand resting on a draped piece of furniture, her left hand on her lap; wearing a veil and low-cut dress fastened with two clasps; curtain, tree and fence behind; church in background at left; proof illustration to Mrs Jameson's 'Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II' (London: 1833); after Willem Wissing; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, date, and artist, from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "From picture now at Hampton Court. Pl. to Mrs. Jameson's Beauties of the Court of Charles II, 1833."
Portrait, seated to front and smoking pipe, almost whole-length, his arms resting on chair-backs, bottle, glass and paper on table at right. According to the British Museum catalogue, Benjamin Bradly [sic] was a tobacconist, and an opponent of Robert Walpole's excise bill
Description:
Title supplied by cataloguer., Text below image: Behold the Man, who when a gloomy Band, Of vile Excisemen threaten'd all the Land, Help'd to deliver from their Harpy Gripe, The chearfull Bottle and the Social Pipe, O rare Ben Bradly! may for This the Bowl, Still unexcis'd, rejoice thy honest Soul! May still the Best in Christendom for This, Heave to thy Stopper and compleat thy Bliss., A small crest showing Britannia smoking, centered between text below image., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar.", Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders., and With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from item., Attribution to Hollar, title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and right., and Fourteen lines of text below the image: Dr. Laighton, for writing a booke called Sions plea ...
Half-length portrait of engraver William Bawtree, facing left, at the age of 80.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist and engraved not identified., Date based on manuscript mounted opposite, written by his great-great-grandson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 1 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 devised by curator., Possibly after an oil painting by Wootton that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 63 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portrait of a military officer, in profile to the right, wearing a tricorne hat
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 10b in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.