Head-and-shoulders self-portrait of English painter Thomas Gainsborough, facing right and "Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, after his self-portrait; half length, to the right, head turned to the front, his hair lightly curled over ears, wearing jacket fastened at waist and cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 686 (leaf numbered '129' 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 Nov. 27, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, and Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Caption title., Includes a printed list of paints and oils, as well as other chandlery goods including preserved goods and other supplies of use on board ships., Inscribed "No. 6 Painters Bill. The Marchoness of Ada[?] Capt Ogilvie. 1765." in ink on recto, over the printed list of paints. The verso lists the paints supplied to "Jno. Clarke Esq. For the Brig Marchoness ordered [by] Capt Hugolvie. ... [between] May 22 1765 [and] June 11 1765." The bill was paid in full August 30, 1765, and signed by James Ogilvie and Thomas Hewerdine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Hewerdine
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Paint, Paint industry and trade, and Painters (Tradespeople)
Caption title., A handbill issued by the churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, forbidding businesses to operate on Sundays, "Except works of necessity" and also mandating the hours that households must show lights on the exteriors., Signed by the churchwardens: Thomas Kynaston and Richard Smith., Not in ESTC., and Mounted on thin card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Title from caption above poem., Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia and British Lion in front of Princess Charlotte's tomb, which is located under a weeping willow and is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed "J. Thompson"., All engraved., First line of verse beneath title: Cease, ye minstrels! all be mute ..., Possibly Samuel Rothwell, but this address not listed in British Book Trade Index?, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by S. Rothwell, 3 Hatfield St., Blackfriars Road
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Grief
Caption titles., Two verses, each printed in one column with woodcut illustration at head., "Verses on the death of her Majesty" has imprint: Pitts printer and wholesale toy warehouse, Great St. Andrew Street 7 Dials., "To the memory of our beloved Queen Caroline" to the tune of "While pensive I thought on my love.", First line of "To the memory of our beloved Queen Caroline": The fair rose of England is dead ..., First line of "Verses on the death of her Majesty Queen Caroline": Hark! the doleful knell is tolling ..., and Laid on to recent blue sugar paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed at Pitts, wholesale toy warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
A Westminster election handbill., Caption title., First line of text: Gentlemen, I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the liberal and spirited support I received from you this day., Signed and dated at end: John Townshend. Bentinck-Street, July 18, 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Westminster (London, England)
Title from first lines of text., A settlement certificate signed, and with seals, by the church wardens, overseers of the poor, and witnesses, for a husband, wife, and their two children in the Parish pf Tamworth in the county of Warwick., "(No. 18)"--Upper left, above coat of arms., Certificate completed in manuscript to establish the right of William Bissell and his family to relief in Tamworth; signed and sealed by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. Imprint trimmed. For further information, consult library staff., and Annotated in blank ink on verso: No. 153, Wm. Bissells certificate from Tamworth.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: As Tom and Polly went a straying ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column., A slip song., In verse., First line: It was on Easter Monday ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Jennings, 13, Water-lane, Fleet-street, London