Two fashionably dressed women flee a charging bull; one woman lies face down in the grass of Hyde Park as gentlemen and the bull's owner try to subdue the animal with sticks
Description:
Title and imprint supplied in a contemporary hand on mounting below image., Signed Lepagelet in image who was active in Paris, so ms. note seems questionable., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making tea. Row 2: A couple conversing; a man in stocks getting whipped; a woman with a basket on her head behind a lady with a fan; a boy with a book beside a cobbler, a dog at his feet; a hunter on horseback with a hunting dog. Row 3: An artist painting a portrait of a woman; an old woman seated with a boy at her feet, learning to read; two men; a man with a horn and dancing dog; a Scot in tartan looking at a woman with a yoke on her shoulders support two pails. Row 4: A trainer with a performing bear and dog; a vendor with an urn; a woman with a cart of apples; a boy with a toy hoop; a woman feeding her hogs and piglet as a boy looks on.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Imprint burnished from plate., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
Probably a view of a section of St. Martin-in-the-Fields submitted by Sir James Thornhill for the 1720-1721 St. Martin-in-the-Fields project
Description:
Title devised by curator., Questionable attribution to Sir James Thornhill., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes
Description:
Title from local card catalogue. and Published stipple engraving: no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Portrait of Sir Anthony Denny; bust-length, turned slightly left; wearing a cap and a chain
Alternative Title:
Sir Anthony Denny
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Engraved after a portrait by Hans Holbein. The original picture, set in a roundel, was formerly part of the Arundel collection; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.1669., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 105 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.
Title devised by cataloger., Subject identified from: The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Windsor Castle.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on sitter's death date., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark to image with loss of text., and Mounted on sheet: 419 x 302 mm.
A view of Strawberry Hill from the edge of the Thames looking back up towards the house over the lawn. In the foreground, on the left, a man in classical dress sits on the lawn, a woman standing over him and pointing. On the right, three other figures in classical costume stand together, a woman again pointing to the left
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill East front
Description:
Title and printmaker from Gascoigne., Added title from curator., Proof before letters?, and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
View of Strawberry Hill (north front) as seen from the lane with fences on either side. A man with a scythe and a woman carrying a baby walk in the road in front of the estate, towards the viewer
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill, north front
Description:
Title written by the artist in block letters on mount below image., Artist's initials and date etched in lower left corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Formerly laid in 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., and With wash-line mount (40.6 x 36 cm); signed with initials and dated by the artist ("E.E. 1783") on mount, to the right of manuscript title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)