Elizabeth Jeffryes and John Swan condemned at Chelmsford-Assizes
Description:
"John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes in their cell at Chelmsford prison; he is wearing shackles, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, hands clasped; she is seated to left with her right elbow on a table, on which lie open book, bottle and glass, supporting her face; probably frontispiece to the sitter's Life and Trial"--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two columns of verse below title: Behold two wretches here replete with guilt! Lamenting sorely for the blood they spilt ...
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parlt., 1752, & sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Swan, John, -1752. and Jeffryes, Elizabeth, -1752.
"Portrait of Mary Squires, whole length, standing to right, leaning on a short stick, wearing hat, cape, apron; after Richard Edgcumbe."
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Squires the Gypsy who stripped Elizabeth Canning at Enfield Wash
Description:
Title from item. and Earlier state, with different name in the title and different description. Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum / Freeman O'Donoghue, v. 4, p. 170.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773. and Squires, Mary, -1762,
Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
publish'd according to the act of Parliam[...] [not before 1738]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Elizabeth Adams, three-quarter length, seated to left, holding a notebook titled "Repenting sins", shown with both hands on her lap, wearing bonnet and plain dress. Adams was a criminal who was hanged for robbery in 1738. Resemblance to a figure in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, plate 6; and tentatively attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the end of the publication statement., and On page 63 in volume 1. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 194.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[27 May 1754]
Call Number:
754.05.27.01
Collection Title:
Tracts respecting Elizabeth Canning.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, half-length directed and looking to left, sitting at a table with her right arm resting on it, in front of her, left at her side, wearing a simple gown, laced bodice and bonnet
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate line., and Matted.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to the act of Parliamt, May 27th, 1754 ; printed for & sold by Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Full length profile portrait facing left of Elizabeth Chudleigh during her trial for bigamy. She wears a black dress with a hood and holds papers in each hand. An upholstered armchair is behind her
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Chaloner-Smith., and Print trimmed into plate mark, repairs to lower corners, inlaid, folded.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Bigamy, Trials (Bigamy), Clothing & dress, and Chairs
Elizabeth Sawyer is shown full-length walking left with a divining rod in (Fate) pointing at her
Description:
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Symbols: finger of fate
"Bust portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry, in profile to left, hair pulled back and loosely fastened, falling down back and over right shoulder, wearing loose, low-necked gown, button at left shoulder; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Barry
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Engraved after the picture kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 170 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:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1792, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)