"Bird's eye view over Vauxhall Gardens, with figures surrounding bandstand and the Prince of Wales's pavillion in centre, triumphal arches at right and supper boxes at either side of the gardens, the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room' at extreme left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
General prospect of Vauxhall Gardens and Vüe d'etaillee des Jardins de Vaux Hall
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate. For an earlier state published in 1751 by John Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5465., Date of publication based on that of earlier state. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "128" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),, England, and London.
"View of Hampton Court bridge; with an angler in the centre foreground to left seen from behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below images., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1599., Design consists of a view of the bridge at top of plate with an overhead plan of the bridge below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 54 cm.
Title from text below image., Questionable date of publication from manuscript annotation in pencil on similar print in The Lewis Walpole Library. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Topos L847 no. 120+., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 178 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 91 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 41.8 x 56.2 cm., Annotation in pencil following title: Engrav'd from a private plate of Mr. Walpole's., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 178 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 (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) and Castles & palaces
"View at night of the structure erected for the firework display in St James's Park in 1749, showing the fireworks in action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
View of the public fireworks exhibited on occasion of the general peace concluded October 7, 1748
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from description of varaint state in the British Museum online catalogue., Variant (earlier?) state, showing fewer fireworks, of a print in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1717]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 140++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the Church of St Mary-le-Strand, showing the statue of St Anne on the Portico, with further statues in the niches on the south side; elegantly dressed figures on Strand around church, a sedan chair and a carriage on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prospectum hunc Templi Stae. Mariae in vico dicto the Strand
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., "Debito Obsequio D.D. Jacobus Gibbs Architectus"--Below title, lower right corner., and Watermark.
View of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London; figures and carriages on street in foreground; shops adjoining church to the left
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate numbered "10" in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and St. Mary-le-Bow (Church : London, England),