"View of London from the Thames, with London Bridge on the left and the Tower on the right; St Paul's beyond the bridge, boats in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the southeast prospect of London, from the Tower to London Bridge and Vüe de Londres sur du côte du sud-est depuis la Tour jusqu au Pont de Londres
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably a later state, with slight alteration to the plate numbering format. For a state with "No. 2" in upper right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0710.4905., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., and Leaf 21 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Thames River (England),, London Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England), and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Monument, The (London, England), Cathedrals, Bridges, Monuments & memorials, Rivers, Sailboats, and Rowboats
Titles from text below image, in English and French., Text at bottom of plate identifies the house at center of image as "Lord Kingston's" and the resident of house at right of image as "Green Esqr.", "No. 34"--Lower right corner., No. 38, "Sir John Hawkins," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 40, "Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, & sold by J. Boydell, engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
BEIN 2015 1520: Undeciphered autograph. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer., "Epitre" signed: Brunet. By Pierre Nicolas Brunet. Cf. Barbier., and Original calf. Bookplate 2 early state. Press-mark G.8.12. With two architectural sketches in pencil, probably by Horace Walpole, drawn inside back cover.
Publisher:
Chez Desaint & Saillant ..., J. Th. Hérissant ...
Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 53 Box 5
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of four numbered stanzas of four lines each. Possibly composed by Queen Hortense of Holland and addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte
Description:
In French., Title from manuscript note in English at bottom of sheet., Possibly from 1806, the year that Hortense became Queen of Holland and the year of death for Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 196 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Housed in mylar sleeve matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Portrait drawing of Afonso de Albuquerque; bust length, turned slightly left; with a long beard; wearing a black hat; the hilt of a sword just visible at bottom of image
Description:
Titled above image in ink over pencil., Signed in ink over pencil in lower left corner., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 85 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
"A thin elderly man proferring his wares, holding a long stick tucked under one arm, rubbing a short ribbed staff against the hilt with the other to spark a fire, looking to left, lit from the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Feu sans fumée, ou exellentes pierres a fusil
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Ninth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "9" beneath lower right corner of image.
"An old and young woman holding a large basket between them full of crockery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toute sorte de potterie a un sol et demi par assiette ...
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Fifth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "5" in lower right corner.