Title engraved below image., Plate from: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), English artist and publisher., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763?]
Call Number:
Portraits V568 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust of George Vertue with cap, in oval, looking left, after oil painting by Richardson
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate originally issued preceding "The life of George Vertue" in: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers. Strawberry-Hill : 1763., and Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Title from text below image., First published ca. 1675-1700; this is a late 18th-century reissue., After Francis Place (1647-1728). See National Portrait Gallery, London, pen and ink sketch., and Publication date from National Portrait Gallery, London.
Publisher:
Published by W. Richardson, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Copy of the print after a self-portrait after the painting in the Tate Gallery (London); the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette. Lettered, on the palette 'The Line of Beauty', and below image, Gulielmus Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Alternative form of title
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print on secondary mount: An Irish copy of the first print in the first volume of this [col?]lection., and On page 234 in volume 3.
Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 1 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; oval image 32.1 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 41.4 x 32.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
Portrait of William Hogarth; half length, to the right, head turned towads the viewer; with short curly hair; part of a curtain in background
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date based on known dates of activity for W. Read. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait after a self-portrait; half-length in an oval frame, directed to right, looking towards the viewer, arms at his sides, wearing a plain coat buttoned at the waist, a white cravat and tricorn over a shoulder-length wig
Description:
Title etched below image., State without price below image, lower right., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 209 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d edit., p. 409.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, June 1781, and sold by C. Townley, Arlington Street, Piccadilly