Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1778]
Call Number:
Babb-Beckford no. 116++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an estate with blacks (slaves) leading an oxcart, carrying sugar canes, walking with basket on head, and leading a horse. Includes dwellings, outbuildings, and mill buildings (?). Also includes (Beckford?) coat of arms."--John Carter Brown Library image collections, call no.: En778 R649v OVERSIZE
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 2."--Lower left corner., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1778]
Call Number:
Babb-Beckford no. 117++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an estate with blacks (slaves) leading an oxcart, carrying sugar canes, walking with basket on head, and leading a horse. Includes dwellings, outbuildings, and mill buildings (?). Also includes (Beckford?) coat of arms."--John Carter Brown Library image collections, call no.: En778 R649v OVERSIZE
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 2."--Lower left corner., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 40.5 x 55.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark; matted to 56 x 72 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"A small wooden bridge over a broad river with rapids, between banks with rich foliage, and a group on the right bank, a woman gathering a sheet, a man with a broad hat and another sitting."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 4."--Lower left corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"View of the spring-head of Roaring River on the estate of William Beckford, surrounded by trees with cattle wading to front, where a kneeling man hands fruit from a basket to a standing woman; no. 5 from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "No. 5."--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 52 x 67 cm.
Publisher:
Published Mar. 25th, 1778, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
A view of the home of Dr. Batty in Twickenham from across the Thames. Three horses on the shore pull a fishing boat in foreground, a tree to the left. A row boat on the river midfield wtih two other small boats in the distance, up and down stream
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on the dated drawing on which this print is based., and Inscribed on backing: For Mr. Lewis our fairy Godfather on his 76th birthday, with love Becky & Tim More, Nov. 14th, 1971. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Batty, Robert, 1763?-1849
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Boats, Estates, and Landscapes (Representations)
Titles from text below image, in English and French., "No. 32"--Lower right corner., No. 22, "Mr. and Mrs. George Morton Pitt," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: G.R.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament & sold by J. Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside
"View in Charing Cross with the Golden Cross Inn on the left, Northumberland House and the equestrian statue of Charles I on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü de la Maison de Northumberland á Charing Cross
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2814., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Watermark: Curteis & Son 1806., and Leaf 30 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Charing Cross (London, England),
Subject (Name):
Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Taverns (Inns), Row houses, Dwellings, Equestrian statues, Carriages & coaches, and Carts & wagons
"The Thames at the centre with boats on the water, figures on the quay to the right, a mansion by the quay and the city in the back, Richmond Hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill from the Earl of Cholmondeley's and Vue de la Montagne de Richmond de la maison du Conte de Cholmondelly
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "6" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1872,1012.5399., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 10 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleetstreet
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Thames River (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Rivers, Dwellings, Piers & wharves, and Boats
A view of Strawberry Hill as seen through the trees from a perspective on the river, with an empty row boat in the foreground and cows lay on the ground in the pasture along the river. A man stands near the trees on the right
Description:
Title below image., Artist and date from Gascoigne., and Based on a drawing by Samuel Owens, with the addition of a man standing near the trees on the right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Manuscript in a single hand with a room-by-room inventory of the contents of Castle Hill Lodge which was owned by Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. The inventory was taken presumably shortly after his marriage, and the contents listed reflect the high Regency taste of the owner. The Duke had purchased the Lodge in 1801 from his sister-in-law Mrs. FitzHerbert and had spent thousands of pounds for improvements commissioned from James (?) Wyatt. In addition to the detailed listing of the Duke's private rooms and the formal rooms, the inventory includes servants' quarters, outhouses, barracks, and concludes with an inventory "of sundry articles not comprised in the foregoing inventory."
Description:
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son of Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte and father of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). He married Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 29 May 1818., The firm Tatham & Baily was founded in the 1780s and had premises at 14 Mount Street. The original parnership was between George Elward and William Marsh with Edward Baily joining the firm in 1793 and Thomas Tatham in 1798., In English., Title from item., Some blank pages and numbering irregularities., Binding: reversed calf., Paper watermarked: C. Ball 1816., Stationer's label on inside front cover: Robert Hoffman, Stationer to the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Middlesex (England)
Subject (Name):
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Wyatt, James, 1746-1813., and Castle Hill Lodge (Middlesex, England)