John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, the caricaturist; styled himself as "the Lancashire Hogarth"; half-length, seated in a chair, looking left, in cap. After the portrait by Hogarth
"Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat; before letters or border."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: M.A. Shee R.A. pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt., First state according to Baker, before letters or border., and For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by W. Sharp, April 7, 1803," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0809.180.
"Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: M.A. Shee R.A. pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt., Second state according to Baker, before letters but with the border., For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by W. Sharp, April 7, 1803," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0809.180., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Full length caricature of Lord Amherst wearing sash and sword, in profile to the left
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 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 9 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: Lord Amherst.
Coat of arms of the admiral Lord Matthew Aylmer, with motto STEADY etched in reverse and four Cornish choughs, ducal coronet, two sailors on either side, one holding a lead line and the other a cross staff
Description:
Title from ms. note in Steevens's hand., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Inscribed: 4D., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below: Lord Aylmer's Arms. Ms. note in pencil below: Sold at Gulston's Auction for £7.10.0., and On page 4 in volume 1.
"Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet., Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Proof before letters?, Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774,
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, British, and Military uniforms
"Design in two rows of eight sections, with 15 figures demonstrating a salute with the half-pike; at top, the title in an oval decorated with arms, and figures numbered 1-7, below, figures numbered 1-8 ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., One of two folding plates to John Blackwell's A compendium of military discipline., Caption in the oval at the left: The several postures of [the] salute wth [sic] [the] half-pike. Describ'ed from order & on [the] long march, as it is practis'd in [the] Artillery Company of [the ] City of London. By Jon. Blackwell adjutant and clerk., Companion print to: Exercise for the Halberd., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 439. Blackwell's figure in all, 26. Note below print: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 44 in volume 1.
Publisher:
John Blackwell
Subject (Name):
England and Wales. Army. Honourable Artillery Company of London.