Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Nosegays -- Domestic service: valet -- Hairdressing implements: curling papers -- Street scenes -- Paris: rue d'Enfer.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 83 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26.8 x 20.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat., and Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
"Satire on fashion. A portly middle-aged man wearing riding boots, embroidered waistcoat and powdered wig peers through an eye-glass presumably at pictures offered at an auction the catalogue of which he holds with his riding crop in his left hand.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Macaroni at a sale of pictures
Description:
Title from item., State with series numbers. Cf. No. 4601 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Publication date assigned based on that of the Sayer and Smith edition. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Series numbering "No. 29" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses., Watermark: initials G R under mostly cut off watermark., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
"View of Hampton Court bridge; with an angler in the centre foreground to left seen from behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below images., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1599., Design consists of a view of the bridge at top of plate with an overhead plan of the bridge below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 54 cm.
Vüe du pais proche de la riviere prise de la Montagne de Richmond
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different publication line, of a print published in 1752 by R. Sayer and H. Overton., Plate numbered "62" in upper right corner., and Watermark: W. King.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
"A circular building (the Rotunda) in the background and a Chinese structure on a lake reached by a bridge"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe du canal, du bâtiment, Chinois, de la Rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade
Description:
Title from caption below image., Terminal date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Later reissue of a print published in 1752. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Plate numbered "74" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
"View from the hill, looking down on the River Thames, and Richmond; a carriage and pedestrians on road in right foreground, a farm directlyh below"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe du costé de l'occident de Richmond &c. dans Surry prise de l'Enseigne de l'Etoile et la jaretiere
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street