Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 1 of Plate 2. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 5 of 12 titles bound together., The portion of the title "the creation of the world, 5636 ... the death of K. Charles II, 2" is enclosed within brackets., Signatures: A-C⁸., and Annual almanac which ran 1657-1715; 6 lines of verse precede most of the monthly tables; advertisements: C6 and C8 versos.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Horton for the Company of Stationers
"Portrait after Richard Cosway, standing whole-length to left on a terrace, looking to front, wearing evening dress with feathered headdress, holding up her skirts in her left hand and a feather fan in her right, stairs descending beyond at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1856,0308.19., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on board to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
R. Cosway R.A. et Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis delint. et excut
Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
Act for the Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation
Description:
Bound with two other titles: A subsidy granted to the king, of tonnage, & poundage. London, 1661; An act to prevent frauds, and concealments of His Majesties customs, and subsidies.
Publisher:
Printed by C. Barker
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Commerce --Law
Subject (Topic):
Maritime law --Great Britain --Early works to 1800, Shipping --Great Britain --Law, Smuggling --Great Britain --Early works to 1800, and Trade regulation --Great Britain --Early works to 1800
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Queen, pregnant, walks towards the King; politicians and courtiers comment on the birth of a new heir to the throne
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 74.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops