"Portrait of the infant musical genius William Crotch; aged 3, half length, full face; holding music sheet; wearing feathered hat; oval on pedastal with musical ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., Two lines of biographical information beneath image: This celebrated child who discover'd extraordinary talents for music during the third year of his age, was born at Norwich July 5th, 1775., Dedication at bottom of plate: To Sir Harbord Harbord Bt. L.L.D. this plate is by permission most humbly inscribed by his faithful and obedient servant, Isabella Crotch., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament May 12th, 1779, by Mrs. Crotch, near St. James's Street, Piccadilly
A view from the street of the bookseller William Darton's shop at No. 58 Holborn in London, with the shop window filled with prints and books. Above the windows Darton advertises the scope of his wares: "Books in all languages on the arts, sciences &c.; Maps, plans, charts, prints & games; Works of merit soon as published. A woman and two children are shown looking in the windows while a second woman and child are shown entering the shop. A horse-drawn carriage enters the scene from the right. On the left, a man sits beside a lamppost with a basker and dog at his side
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly used as a trade card?, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1822, where may be had maps and prints wholesale
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darton, William, 1781-1854.
Subject (Topic):
Booksellers and bookselling, City & town life, Lampposts, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Carriages & coaches
Opposite page 39. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Duke of Cumberland, bust length in profile to left; wearing armour, and fur-lined cloak fastened with brooch at shoulder; in circle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Smollett, T. A complete history of England. London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, v. 11 (1760)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 18 x 12 cm., and Bound in opposite page 39 in Richard Bull's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Publisher:
Richard Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of threads, tapes bindings, pins, needles, fans, necklaces, plain & figur'd ribbons, velvet caps, silk & linnen, handkerchiefs, cypres & french gauze, paris-net & cat-gut, silk & thrd chimmy lines, sattin pincushions, stay straps, ferrets & french cord, sattin stomacher, dimity stomachers, french mittens, silk thread and worsted fringes, capuchins & shades, black lace, bags & roses, silk & thread purses, shoe galloons, shoe lace & breed, silk & worsted leaders, stay goods of all sorts, leghorn, chips and horse hair hatts, thread & worsted, bed lace, stockings, and gloves. With all sorts of haberdashery goods, wholesale and retail at the lowest prices., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 76 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"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,
Title from item., Title continues: Makes and sells all sorts of gilt and silver buttons, on ivory & box moulds, all sorts of livery buttons at the lowest prices, wholesale or retail., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 82 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of superfine broad and narrow cloths, superfine drabs, German serges, forrest cloths, duffels, sagothies, barragons, lustrings, fustians, thicksetts, shaggs, manchester velvets, dimitys, double and single allopeens & c., flannels, bays, linceys, cottons & c., stuffs, camblets, callamancoes, rufsells, damasks, crapes, venetians, dresden poplins, mefsinets & c., also, shalloons, wholesale & retail at the lowest prices., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 46 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
A portrait of Hogarth in profile, looking left, with a pencil in his right hand poised above an open book in his left hand. He wears a cocked hat on his head. Adapted from his self-portrait in "The Gate of Calais."
Description:
Title from engraved text above image., Date based on similar print published by R. Sayer. See no. 3066 in the Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Verses engraved below image begin: "In solemn scenes great Kneller's pencil wrought, and kings and heroes fill'd his lab'ring thought. Hogarth more humble, yet as justly draws the lines of nature, and pursues her laws ..."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard