"The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple engraving and roulette on wove paperr ; plate mark 24.9 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 19.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
"The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
"Portrait of Thomas Gray; head and shoulders, directed to left, head in profile, wearing a plain open coat, jacket, cravat, high collar and long hair tied at the nape beneath a short wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,0701.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1710]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of William Congreve, standing half length to the right, face turned forward, wearing wig, open collar, and coat; trees in background
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 188 (leaf numbered '230' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Smith
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729, and Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
BEIN BrSides 2019 527: Uncolored. On sheet 41.0 x 27.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., Title from caption below image., and Publication date is from printmaker's active dates.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
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.
Sergent-Marceau, Marie Louise, 1753-1804, printmaker
Published / Created:
1792.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, bust directed to left, looking to front, with brown hair and beard, and black robe emblazoned with a white Malta cross; within oval."--British Museum online catalogue and "From 'Portraits des grands hommes, femmes illustres et sujets mémorables de France', a series of colour prints executed by Antoine Sergent, Marie Louise Cernel, Louis Le Coeur, Jean Baptiste Morret, Ridé and L. Roger, and published in Paris by Pierre Blin in 1786-1792. The series consists of a frontispiece, a lettered dedication to the King, ninety-two portraits and ninety-two figurative scenes in relation to the portraits (historical events, allegories, reproduction of a painting in the case of Poussin...). It was advertised in the Mercure de France, November 1786, p. 44, as 'Portraits des Grands Hommes', to be published monthly as four prints per livraison (two portraits, two actions) at eight livres per livraison."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication etched beneath lower border of oval portrait, centered between artist and printmaker signatures., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and plate cut in half, with image separated from title and imprint statement lost. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1869,0612.202., Printed with several plates; see British Museum online catalogue., Letter "K" etched in upper left corner; "No. 9" etched in upper right corner., Image mounted on page 137 and text (lacking imprint statement) mounted on page 148 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.