"Allegory of Britain's naval victory, with Neptune driving the Chariot of Britannia, while nymphs riding on fish alongside carry portrait medallions of, from left to right: Pocock, Bosc[a]wen, Hawke, Saunders, Keppel and Howe; ships at battle in the background at right, representing the defeat of the French fleet by Sir Edward Hawke, November 20th. 1759."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below the title: "N.B. In the back Ground is represented the defeat of the French Fleet by Sr. Edw. Hawke, Nov. 20th 1759" and "Size of the Picture 12 F. by 15 F. in Length.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to sheet: 473 x 666 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Saunders, Charles, Sir, 1713?-1775, Boscawen, Edward, 1711-1761, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799, and Pocock, George, Sir, 1706-1792
"Double portrait after Richard Cosway, whole-length, the Prince at left turned to front, looking at his wife on his arm and gesturing towards the garden with deer beyond at left, the Princess directed towards him but head turned to look to front, a bouquet by her side in her left hand, pillar behind; re-engraved version of an earlier plate, the heads and background entirely re-worked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Their Royal Highnessess the Prince and Princess of Wales and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
Description:
Title etched below image., Unintelligible artist's signature in lower left. Artist attribution to Cosway from Daniell., "The plate was originally engraved as a portrait of Michal and Isabella Lasockich Oginscy, with Schiavonetti named as the engraver, from which the heads were entirely re-engraved and the background altered"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1261., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 417 (leaf numbered '30' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published April 12, 1797, by Messrs. Schiavonetti, No. 12 Michael Place, Brompton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
"Portrait group of the Society of Artists; men gathered around a table in a fine interior, some seated, attended by servants; with portraits of Grinling Gibbons, William Kent, John Michael Rysbrack, Gawen Hamilton, Marcellus Laroon, Michael Dahl, John Vanderbanck, and Charles Bridgman; a landscape painting on wall in background, a curtain to the right, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Society of Artists
Description:
Title etched below image. and Dobson. Hogarth, 1902, p. 233.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1829 by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Hay Market
Camp scene with soldiers from the Loyal Associated and Volunteer Corps of the City of Westminster, with an officer escorting the ladies through the camp (right) who honoured them with the presentation of colours; two horses in the center and a dog ready to pounce at an officer's hat seen in the foreground
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
Publisher:
Pub. March 30, 1799 by Messrs. Schiavonetti, No. 12 Michaels Place, Brompton (Plate 1) by their most obedient humble servts. L.I. & N. Schiavonetti
"The three children of Christian II of Denmark, painted after their mother's death in 1526, wrongly titled the children of Henry VII; three children sitting close to one another around a table within a frame, Prince Hans (who would die as a boy six years after sitting for this painting) at centre wearing flat hat and mourning clothes, three cherries in front of him, Dorothea at left reaching for a quince, and Christina at right holding a quince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three children of King Henry VII and Elizabeth his queen
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after the 1526 painting by Gossaert in the Royal Collection, London. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0914.62., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and Tipped in at page 97 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1481-1559. and Christine, Duchess, consort of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, 1521-1590
"Pitt the elder falls back after speaking in the House of Lords; on the walls are the tapestries of the defeat of the Spanish Armada."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Death of the Earl of Chatham
Description:
Title from dedication below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1st 1791 by J.S. Copley, no. 24 George Street Hanover Square
"Interior of the House of Commons; the Speaker Arthur Onslow seated to the left of center, speaking with Sir Robert Walpole on his left; to his right seated with pen and ink and open book is Edward Stables, the Clerk of the House of Commons; other figures from the administration portrayed behind central figures, all wearing wigs and hats, including Sydney Godolphin, Sir Joseph Jekyl, Colonel Onslow, Sir James Thornhilll, and Mr. Aiskew (clerk assistant); just visible to the left of the Speaker are Sir Thomas Cotton and Sir William Wyndham."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To the RIght Honorable Earl Onslow and House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Walpole, Honble. Onslow, Godolphin, Jekyl, Col. Onslow, Stables Esqr., Thornhill, and Aiskew identified below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1803 by E. Harding, No. 100, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, 1645-1712,, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734,, Stables, Edward,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Onslow, George Onslow, Earl of, 1731-1814,, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768,
Title from caption below image., Text below image identifies each subject in the group portrait., and Date of publication taken from years of partnership for Thomas and Eno. See entry in: Peters, H.T. America on stone.
Publisher:
Published by Caldwell & Co., 37 Park Row, New York
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799,, Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857,, Lewis, Nelly Custis, 1779-1852,, Washington, Martha, 1731-1802,, and Lee, William, ca. 1750-1828,
"Double portrait after West (Staley 683); whole-length, the Duke at left, leaning on a pedestal and wearing his robes, his coronet just visible behind his right arm, Edward standing beside, his right hand on his brother's shoulder and left on his hip; curtain behind at left; state published by Humphrey. 1774 as re-issued in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved within bottom portion of image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 578 (leaf numbered '7' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. 24 June 1780 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Bentinck, Edward Charles, Lord, 1744-1819,
Titles from text above or below each image., Printmaker identified as J.S. Müller in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the print was issued., Plate from: London Magazine. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), page 591., and Images of three portrait medallions on one plate, each individually titled.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770,, Townsend, James, -1787,, and Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795,