- Published / Created:
- [1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.02.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A whole-length standing portrait of Dr. Bragge who is pictured as a very fat and round-shouldered man who leans both hands on a walking-stick and wears a loose overcoat and pince-nez. Illustration to a letter describing Dr. Robert Bragge, a collector who "... generally goes by the name of the Connoisseur".
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London, 1768-[1776], v. 8, p. 69.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Collectors, Eyeglasses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A celebrated connoisseur [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Caulfield, James, 1764-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.00.00.47
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full-length portrait of Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder who was later hanged as a sorcerer in 1647, looking left and shown wearing a hat and cloak, holding a walking stick in his right hand and standing next to a tree beside a foot path
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Plate from: The wonderful museum, 1792.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hopkins, Matthew, -1647
- Subject (Topic):
- Witch hunting and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Matthew Hopkins witch finder general / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [3 November 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An etching with the whole-length figure of Dr. Bragge, a picture-dealer. He is stooped over, both hands on his walking-stick and peers intently as if contemplating a work of art. He wears a long, loose coat, a cocked hat and pince-nez. His lower lip is characteristically large, and it protrudes considerably
- Alternative Title:
- Monsieur Le Virtu
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Variant state, with both volume and plate numbers; Cf. No. 4685 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., For a similar design etched by Sir Edward Newenham, see no. 4926 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Third of three plates on leaf 63., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.7 x 10.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 3d, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Humor, Antiquarians, Collectors, Eyeglasses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monsr. Le Virtu' [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [3 November 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.1 plate 21
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An etching with the whole-length figure of Dr. Bragge, a picture-dealer. He is stooped over, both hands on his walking-stick and peers intently as if contemplating a work of art. He wears a long, loose coat, a cocked hat and pince-nez. His lower lip is characteristically large, and it protrudes considerably
- Alternative Title:
- Monsieur Le Virtu
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Variant state, with both volume and plate numbers; Cf. No. 4685 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., For a similar design etched by Sir Edward Newenham, see no. 4926 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Sheet 249 x 152 mm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 3d, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Humor, Antiquarians, Collectors, Eyeglasses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monsr. Le Virtu' [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [3 November 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.11.03.01
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An etching with the whole-length figure of Dr. Bragge, a picture-dealer. He is stooped over, both hands on his walking-stick and peers intently as if contemplating a work of art. He wears a long, loose coat, a cocked hat and pince-nez. His lower lip is characteristically large, and it protrudes considerably
- Alternative Title:
- Monsieur Le Virtu
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Variant state, with both volume and plate numbers; Cf. No. 4685 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., and For a similar design etched by Sir Edward Newenham, see no. 4926 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 3d, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Humor, Antiquarians, Collectors, Eyeglasses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monsr. Le Virtu' [graphic].
- Creator:
- Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1877]
- Call Number:
- Print00687
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portraits, full-length: Dr. Glen on the left talking to Robertson, who stands opposite, his hat in his right hand and a staff topped with two heads."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Glen & Laird Robertson
- Description:
- Title from volume in which the print was issued., 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. 1., Plate numbered "9" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Idiocy.
- Publisher:
- Adam and Charles Black
- Subject (Name):
- Glen, Dr., -1786 and Robertson, James, -1790
- Subject (Topic):
- Mentally ill persons, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Dr. Glen and the Daft Highland Laird] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 May 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 7. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of Effingham standing in profile to the right, wearing a sword and carrying two staffs of office
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Probable a later issue, with the number "10" not visible in upper left of plate. Cf. No. 6061 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord Effingham.
- Publisher:
- Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Effingham, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 1747-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Politicians, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Earl of Effingham] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 June 1782]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 5. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XX" in upper left corner., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Sir Charles Turner.
- Publisher:
- Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Turner, Charles, Sir, 1727?-1783
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Politicians, Public speaking, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Sir Charles Turner] [graphic]