Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1717]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 140++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the Church of St Mary-le-Strand, showing the statue of St Anne on the Portico, with further statues in the niches on the south side; elegantly dressed figures on Strand around church, a sedan chair and a carriage on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prospectum hunc Templi Stae. Mariae in vico dicto the Strand
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., "Debito Obsequio D.D. Jacobus Gibbs Architectus"--Below title, lower right corner., and Watermark.
"A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
"Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Subject (Topic):
Elopements, Firearms, Servants, and Carriages & coaches
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Scotorum Regina
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558., Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Whole length caricature portrait of a man sitting on a four-legged stool in profile to the right. He has a large sharp nose. In his left hand he holds a paper inscribed "Newgate Contract". On the ground are two papers, one inscribed "To Mr Nic", the other, "Speech agt City Place Bill". He is plainly and neatly dressed, his wig in a tight pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Mary Darly in dealer's description., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue. Based on the building of new Newgate Prison which began in 1770 and was completed after 1780., The figure in the print is identified on the British Museum impression, "Sharp, an ironmonder in Leadenhall Street." The London directory for 1780 James Sharpe, Ironmonger is at 15 Leadenhall Street., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of artist statement from lower left corner. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.13117.
"Portrait of Humphrey Gower; half-length, slightly to right, looking towards left; wearing a wig, fur-trimmed robes and clerical bands; in an oval frame with a ribbon on top, and decoration of oak leaves around, placed on a pedestal; after Fellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- The White Horse of Hanover -- British territorial concessions: Cape Breton to France.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Devil, Hostages, Military uniforms, British, National emblems, and Hanoverian
Page 137. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The courtyard of the Royal Exchange, London, with numerous male figures, most wearing hats and carrying canes; the statue of Charles II in the centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 137 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Merchants' exchanges, Commercial facilities, Courtyards, Colonnades, Sculpture, and Crowds
"Landscape with, in the centre foreground, a woman wearing a dark dress seated on a stone and staring into the distance, to right; beside her, a man wearing a plumed hat reclining on the stone; beyond some figures resting under trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Capricious woman and Capricious girl
Description:
Title from that of the original painting, now in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg., Printmaker identified as Philip Mercier in the British Museum online catalogue., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0808.1958., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Original painting was formerly part of Sir Robert Walpole's collection; purchased by Horace Walpole in 1748 and later hung in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 152 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., and 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 29.8 x 24.1 cm.