Title etched below image., Figure identified as the physician Sir Isaac Pennington; see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10751., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and "Mrs. Fuller" written in ink in upper left on recto; figure identified as Sir Isaac Pennington in pencil verso.
Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
1841.
Call Number:
841.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portraits of John Jardine and Alexander Kidston, both whole-lengths, walking in street, in hats and coats, Jardine with spectacles and umbrella, Kidston in chequered waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Jardine
Description:
Title from text etched below each figure in image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Questionable publisher from that of the volume in which this plate was published., Plate also published in: Crombie, B. Modern Athenians: being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, MDCCCLI [1851]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of left half of image. Description based on impression in the British Museum., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 20.3 cm., and Imperfect; left half of print showing Alexander Kidston has been trimmed away, leaving only the right half showing John Jardine.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton?
Subject (Name):
Jardine, John, 1777-1850 and Kidston, Alexander, 1762-1850
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency., and 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 14.5 x 8.5 cm.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait of an exceedingly tall man wearing a striped waistcoat and tailcoat, resting his right elbow on an open door while a tailor stands on a chair on the right, measuring his other arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Giantism -- O'Brien, Patrick.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, and Tailoring
An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
Description:
Title engraved below image., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., and For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Peerage, British, Jacobites, and Rebellions
Copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Simon Lord Lovat as an elderly, rotund man seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
Description:
Title etched below image., "Page 293"--Upper right corner., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of sheet: Copy., and On page 123 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Subject (Topic):
Jacobites, Obesity, Peerage, British, and Rebellions
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.577., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 81-2., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 109., and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.