Plate 69. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 49. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Originally designed as the subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty" the design, based on Leonardo's Last Supper shows, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. On the bottom right, a dog peeps over the edge of the table, the cloth and cutlery tossed off to the side. In this state the receipt portion has been cut off and statement of responsibility added
Description:
Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 21.1 x 25.8 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 69 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 69. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 49. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Originally designed as the subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty" the design, based on Leonardo's Last Supper shows, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. On the bottom right, a dog peeps over the edge of the table, the cloth and cutlery tossed off to the side. In this state the receipt portion has been cut off and statement of responsibility added
Description:
Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 21.1 x 25.8 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 69 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
Description:
Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty., With the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p., and Trimmed to the image; mounted on verso of title page in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 January 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a soldier, who stands to right, leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hat and looking curiously at her; in a roundel; unlettered proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Girl offering beer to a soldier
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton f., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publish'd 23d Jany. 1783., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 27 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.6 x 27.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of the Right Honorable Edward Harlay Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, the great collecter, drawn from life by George Vertue, 1725., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in pencil in lower right corner, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., Contemporary annotation in ink on verso: [Thi]s is a portrait of Geofery Chaucer, the father of English poetry, drawn after [an ol]d painting on wood by George Vertue., One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others., and Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Volume 1, page 23. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title from later state., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Name of the sitter written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1772, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
Drawings showing the floor plan and views of the walls on which were hung paintings and against which statues and other artwork were placed. The second drawing is titled "Plan of rooms that contains [sic] the statues & the pictures" in ink above, and the fourth drawing is titled "View of one end of the great room design'd by Inigo Jones" in ink below. The first drawing depicts a large painting by Van Dyck on the wall at a different end the great room, described in the printed text as "a landskip [sic] with dogs, and in the clouds are three angels ...".
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., One of the four drawings with horizontal orientation., Bound by Horace Walpole in his copy of: Gambarini, C. Description of the Earl of Pembroke's pictures. Westminster : A. Campbell, 1731., and Bound in old mottled calf. With slipcase.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Wiltshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 and Wilton House (England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, and Interiors