Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
Plate [85] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; diagram showing the rectos and versos of five coins from the tudor period, in a plaque surmounted by figure of fame kneeling at foot of a palm tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Image consists of two adjacent designs, each with its own statements of responsibility etched below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [85] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509,, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547,, Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553,, Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558,, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,
An engraved ticket to the retirement dinner for John Philip Kemble. At the top, a portrait of Kemble's head, irradiated. The text is surrounded by garlands; at the base a banner with a quote from Hamlet "The observed, all observers" woven through a lyre, a mask above
Alternative Title:
Ticket to farewell dinner for John Philip Kemble
Description:
Title from engraved text., Signed: Secretaries., "Not transferable"-- Engraved above mask., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The farewell dinner was held 27 June 1817 at the Freemasons' Tavern. See the Dictionary of National Biography., and Mounted to sheet 32 x 26 cm with watermark "1821".
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., Mounted on page 87 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published 1 May 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson. See: Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 652832., and Mounted on page 30.
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway, half length, turned slightly left, in an oval
Alternative Title:
Field Marshall Conway
Description:
Title from text below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 277 (leaf numbered '95' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 1st, 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
"Portrait of George Frederick Cooke as Iago in Shakespeare's 'Othello'; standing three-quarter to front with plumed hat in his left hand, his left arm close to his waist, turned to face left; wearing cloak over slashed, embroidered doublet and ruff with tassles"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., One line of verse below title: Oh, beware, my Lord of jealousy., and Library's impression with multiple tears, glued on buckram mount.
Publisher:
Published April 21, 1801, by Messrs. Wards, & Co. N. 6, Newman Street, London
Subject (Name):
Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812,
Subject (Topic):
Iago (Fictitious character), Fictitious characters, Actors, and British
Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand and "Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' 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:
Published for the proprietors
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822.
Portrait of David Garrick in the role of Richard III, bust only, taken from Hogarth's painting of him awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field; in oval in rectangular brick frame with tablet below
Description:
Title engraved in tablet within image., Printmaker active in Basle., After the painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. See O'Connell, S. London 1753 (2004), pages 135-6., and For a discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 165.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic production, Actors, British, and Portrayals
Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds stick in his left hand, looking to right; folly beside river, beyond at right
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
Publisher:
London Magazine
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,