"Portrait, standing whole-length, TW to left, holding right hand under a fountain with a lion's head, drawing up her cloak with right hand, lookingover her shoulder towards the viewer, in a landscape with trees and bushes behind to the right; one of thirteen plates after Kneller."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1226., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 12 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street & Ino. King at the Globe at the Poultrey
"Portrait, bust in an oval, wearing a gown with loops of pearls at the shoulders, sleeves ending in rounded petals, and jewels down the ermine-trimmed front of her bodice."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1279., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 23 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737,
"Portrait, half-length to front and looking to the left, his right arm leaning on ledge and holding compasses, wearing long wig and chain and badge; arms below; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir John Vanbrugh
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate no. 29 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London : Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from lower right. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "29" in lower right corner., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 154 (leaf numbered '201' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, his right hand tucked into coat, his left hand on hip, wearing the badge of the Garter, a sash diagonally from his left shoulder, cravat, and long brown wig; arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Walpole &c. &c. &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information based on that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate no. 28 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Plate numbered '28' in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait seen three-quarter length slightly to right but facing front, wearing pearls in her hair, column and landscape behind; retouched state with title, after artist's names erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 285, pages 410-411., State from: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1799., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 41 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"Portrait, three-quarter length, directed to right, right hand on a cannon, left hand on his sword-hilt, hat under left arm, wearing a long wig, coat and long jacket, the cravat tucked underneath, with the end pulled through below the top two buttons, facing and looking to front, on a sea-shore, with ships firing in the background to right; after Gibson; before retouching and price added"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honourable Nicholas Haddock Esquire
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1497., and Mounted on sheet 49.0 x 32.0 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
"Portrait, three-quarter length, standing, directed to right, wearing chin-length wig and uniform with braid hanging from right shoulder, right elbow on a ledge next to his tricorn hat, left hand resting on cannon; after Hudson; retouched state, dog altered to cannon, date altered. 1748, this state 1756."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honorable William Blakeney
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., Date of publication from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Mounted on sheet: 477 x 338 mm. Ms. note lower right corner: '48'.
"Portrait after a self-portrait, three-quarter length, seated three-quarter to left, in an armchair, left hand on the arm, right hand on the edge of a table, wearing clerical robes with a high sheen and a soft cap, smiling towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 150 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.
"Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, seated on a bank, left elbow leaning on a stone ledge, right hand in her lap, looking towards the viewer, wearing a loose dress, night landscape int he background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable the Countess of Jersey
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 47 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil