A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses
Full length portrait of Gascoyne wearing a hat and buttoned coat, his hands in the pockets
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11.4 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 3 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Bamber Gascoigne.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1793?]
Call Number:
Quarto 27 19 793B Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 305. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney; full-length, facing the viewer with his gaze directed downward and to the right; his boyish face topped with a black hat and framed by long, curly brown hair; wearing a tan coat with gold trim, red stockings, and a white cravat; a sword hangs from his left hip and a muff covers his hands
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 305 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
Charles Fox, his feet wide apart and his hands on his hips, stands on the steps of an open arched doorway looking outside. Below the image is a quote from Hudibras, beginning, "--he that has but Impudence / To all things has a fair pretence."
Description:
Title devised by the cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Full length portrait of Isaac Barré, facing viewer, a hat in his right hand, his left hand in waistcoat
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XII" in upper left corner., and Mounted on page 7 with three other prints.
Full length portrait of Isaac Barré, facing viewer, a hat in his right hand, his left hand in waistcoat
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XII" in upper left corner., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Colonel Barré.