"Portrait of Margaret of Anjou, half-length, turned to the right, her eyes downcast, a crown over her long straight hair, dressed in an embroidered robe and mantle pinned with jewelled brooches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., Mounted on page 101 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 16 x 11.9 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 7, 1792, by E. Harding, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1715]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Lady Margaret Herbert, whole length, standing, wearing jewels in hair, earring, necklace, low dress, and holding drapery; curtain to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Margaret Smith, married to Sir Thomas Carey ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.341., "Ex Muséo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton"--Below title., Engraved after the painting, bought by Sir Robert Walpole from the Wharton Collection and afterwards acquired by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 159 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 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 49.3 x 30.4 cm.
Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1715]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Lady Margaret Herbert, whole length, standing, wearing jewels in hair, earring, necklace, low dress, and holding drapery; curtain to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Margaret Smith, married to Sir Thomas Carey ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.341., "Ex Muséo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton"--Below title., Engraved after the painting, bought by Sir Robert Walpole from the Wharton Collection and afterwards acquired by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 211 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 51 x 31.5 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Margaret Nicholson attempting to assassinate the King
Description:
Title etched below image., Above image: Engraved for the Lady's magazine., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Royal coaches -- Attempted regicide -- Knife.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828.
Title from item., Below title are eight lines of verse in two columns, signed R.G. Sr. D.L.: Flore, Thisbe! Lucresse & Porcie & Cypris ..., Engraved below verses: Omnia vincit amor & nos Cedamus amori. Virgil., Watermark upper center of sheet., and Written in ink along right plate line, top: 155. Lower left corner of plate mark: 74. On verso, lower left: 141[?]
A young woman sits under a tree, holding a small dog on a leash. An instrument (a recorder?) is partially hidden by her arm and hungs by a cord across her shoulder. In the distance is a horse and chaise
Description:
Title from item., Number '204' in lower left corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume.
Publisher:
Published 23rd July, 1787, by Robert Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
"Portrait of Mary of Modena as Duchess of York, three-quarter length, holding a flower in one hand, and with the other plucking a flower from a small tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.8340., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 17 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
A. Blooteling
Subject (Name):
Mary, of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718,
"Portrait; half-length standing to left, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a sprigged gown with lacing at the bodice, and a cloak which flutters behind her; her hair dressed up with tresses falling behind the nape of her neck; in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2388., Mounted on leaf numbered 45 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
"Portrait, half-length directed to right, wearing tiara and low-necked dress with a decorated belt, wrapping her daughter in a cloak trimmed in ermine, the child curled with her head on her hands in her mother's lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4925.+., Mounted on leaf numbered 35 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street