On the left a thin man stands stiffly in profile to the right his head thrown back, chapeau-bras, and holding a muff. A very stout man on the rights stands full-face, his hands behind his back, looking up quizzically
Description:
Title from manuscript note., Variant state with title provide only in manuscript in a contemporary hand; no engraved title., Plate for: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Variant state. Cf. No. 7467 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"Poetry sitting on a cloud, looking up, quill pen in her right hand towards her cheek, papers in her left on the lap, Cupid sitting on the right, facing front, music instruments, ornaments and foliages below; state before publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within design., and On page numbered 38 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A full-length image of a stout man in profile, walkinig left, with a long wig and coat decorated with fleur-de-lis, pointing with right hand, holding his hat in the other, saying 'Im against Hanover that's flat'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and date from British Museum catalogue., Copy in reverse from a figure in "The recruiting serjeant.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., Ms. note in pencil in unidentified hand on mount below print: Ld. Melcomb., and Ms. note in pencil in same hand lower right beneath print: Hogarth.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762
Title from ms. note in ink below image: "Bulstrode Whitlock by Winceslaus Hollar.", Mounted to 320 x 261 mm; French mount with gilt, black ink, and gray wash borders., and With a note in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "A portrait of Bulstrode Whitlock Esqr. by Winceslaus Hollar. Born at Prague in Bohemia about 1600. An unfinished proof print wash'd & hightned by [...]"
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below image: Scudery.
"Portrait of Margaret Lemon, half length, turned to the right, but looking towards the viewer, wearing a pearl necklace and dress, with flowers in her hair; in an octagonal frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0504.143., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 123 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 Sitter's name added by Horace Walpole in pencil at bottom of sheet: Mrs. Lemon.
A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., State from British mezzotinto portraits., After Joshua Reynolds's painting, ca. 1766., and Numbered in manuscript upper left: 75. Printed on gilt-edged paper.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Text below image: Literam Libri Manuscripti initialem pulcherrimé depictam et Authoris Icona hoc modo exhibentem., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink on verso: Trivet.
"Portrait of Richard Smalbroke, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in a fur-lined cloak over his waistcoat and a matching fur-lined hat on his head, a jewelled brooch at his neck."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist from description of variant state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,0410.2486., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink at bottom of sheet: Dr. Richard Smalbroke L.L.D., Chancellor of Litchfield 1756.