Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; possibly the first state without the price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 72 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 reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., and On page 53 in volume 1. With a note in Steevens hand below: Of this Plate (which belonged to Mr. Richardson) only 25 impressions were taken off, the Plate itself being destroyed by an accidental fire.
A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 56 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 : mezzotint with line engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.6 x 15.3 mm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., and Bound in as a frontispiece to her True copy of the paper, delivered the night before her execution (Lewis Walpole Library 55 M243 733). For further information, consult library staff.
Before frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Hackman, half-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a dark frockcoat over his waistcoat, his hair curled and powdered and with a black patch on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend James Hackman
Description:
Title etched below image., Frontispiece to: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the late Miss Martha Reay. London : Printed for G. Kearsly, near Serjeants-Inn, Fleet-street, 1779., Leaf before frontispiece, in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., and Originally issued as the frontispiece, this plate is separated from the title page here by another plate (a portrait of Martha Reay) that was inserted into this copy.
"George Smith (left) stands in profile to the right holding his hat, gazing fixedly at Deacon Brodie (right), who stands almost full-face looking to the front. Smith's clothes are out at elbows. Brodie is well dressed, wearing a cocked hat, a seal hangs from his fob, he holds a tasselled cane. Beside him are (left) a spurred game-cock and a dog, whose fierce-looking head appears on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Print numbered '106' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Brodie, William, 1741-1788, and Smith, George, -1788,
After page 21. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"James Maclaine, the gentleman highwayman, full-length standing against a plain background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.408., "Publish'd according to act of Parl.", Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of text from bottom of plate. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted to 37 x 26 cm., and Bound in before page 26 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Portrait of the highwayman and Royalist James Hind; half length, turned slightly left; in an oval
Alternative Title:
True portraiture of Captain James Hind
Description:
Title etched below image., "From a scarce print in the collection of Mr. Bull"--Below title., and Copy of a woodcut from 1651; cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 530, no. 2.
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.577., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 81-2., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 109., and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.