published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
"Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by a crown. The lion is apparently attempting to lunge at a Spaniard holding a whip who has harnessed three English sailors to a cart."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason and Don Diego brought to reason
Description:
Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on leaf 73. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
R. Thompson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Subject (Topic):
Whips, Carts & wagons, Lions, Sailors, and Staffs (Sticks)
The prisoner Gulliver is shown being presented to the Queen of Babilary
Alternative Title:
Gulliver presented to the Queen of Babilary
Description:
Title from Paulson., Caption title below image: Gulliver presented to the Queen of Babilary., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note above print in Steevens's hand: Gulliver 171., and On page 52 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: sheet 14.3 x 7.7 cm.
Title and date supplied by curator., Statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet., and Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's copy of his Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Freemasons magazine., "To the Rt. Worshipful & Rt. Honorable Lord Rawdon the rest of the officers composing the Grand Lodge of England the Freemasons' Magazine is most humbly inscribed"--At top of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: freemasons -- Cherubs -- Allusion to Francis Rawdon, 1st Marquis of Hastings, 1754-1826.
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a cherub cuts the inscription on the plinth below: 'The Collection of Charles Jarvis Esq Consisiting of Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Basso Relievo, &c &c'; with classical artistic fragments to left and classical buildings in the background, including Trajan's column, and a fragment on the right inscribed 'Heath Auctioneer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures, prints, and drawings late of Charles Jarvis Esq; deceased. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1740]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 20.3 x 12.2 cm; mounted on leaf 24 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 466 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Knox, V. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers ... London : Rivington [etc.], 1791.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
Corporal Trim stands with his back to the viewer as he reads a sermon upon Conscience. Dr. Slop sleeps in an armchair on the left beside the fireplace, his chin resting on his large belly. In the background Uncle Toby and Walter Shandy sit smoking. Behind them in the corner against the wall is a grandfather's clock and on the wall Toby's map of the fortifications of Namur. A three-cornered hat is shown on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to vol. 1
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Text upper left corner: Frontispiece Vol. 1., Text below image: Vol. 2. page 128., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above this print and another version listed above: Tristram Shandy; in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 14.7 x 8.7 cm.