McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length directed to left, looking away slightly to right, pointing with right hand held in front of him just above waist-level, wearing shoulder-length white wig, architectural interior behind him, the whole in an oval, resting on a pedestal against a brick ground, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist, printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3284., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark witih loss of artist and printmaker's names., and On page 143 in volume 2.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Portraits G442 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in the image: A plan of the Radcliffe Library., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3288., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 39.8 x 29.9 cm.
Portrait in a rectangular frame, James Stuart, known as "Athenian Stuart", in profile half-length, directed and looking to the left
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from published state National Portrait Gallery, London., and Text below image: "From a picture in the possession of Richard Brettingham Esqr., Shotford Hall, Norfolk."
Two head-and-shoulder portraits of the 4th Earl of Sandwich and his mistress, Martha Ray, in separate unnumbered, ornamental oval frames
Alternative Title:
Miss R-- and Miss Ray
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from that of the original., A copy in reverse of a plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 562., and Cf. No. 4361 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Reay, Martha,
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
"Portrait of John Gower; bust, in profile to the right; wearing chaplet of roses around his head; in a rectangle frame, set within architectural details; a tablet below, with his three principal works in front, and a further book open to a page with an illustration of his monument in Southwark Cathedral; the portrait taken from his effigy on this monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., Text below image: "Honoratiss Dno Ioanni Levison Gower Domino Gower; hanc effigiem humillime D.D. / G. Vertue." per image in British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,1.338., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of text below design., and In white paper frame with green gouche, yellow wash, and black ink frame: 420 x 360 mm.
Title from item., Publication date from date etched below sundial on the barn in the image ('9' etched in reverse view)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns etched on both sides of title: whence straight he came with hat and wig ..., Reversed version of no. 6896 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: calenderer's house -- Trades: calenderers -- Fences -- Horses -- Donkeys -- Sundials - Wigs -- Dressing gowns -- Literature: illustration to Cowper's John Gilpin.
Title etched below image., Date based on the date of the murder of John Hayes, which occurred on 1 March 1726., and Probably an illustration to a book or periodical.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 140 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.