"On a street, a man with a walking stick waves his hand at a dog standing at left, behind his back two finely dressed young men converse, one gesturing to right as if suggesting that they should leave, a monk behind them walking to left, and a religious building over a wall in the background (Two Gentlemen of Verona)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: From the original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York., Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Launce. O, tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies ... The two gentlemen of Verona., and One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet St.
"Corrigenda"--p. [10] at end., "En Ceretae desideratam hactenus effigiem, nuper Brixiae repertam"--Half title., Includes index., and Signatures: [chi]² [cross]⁸ A-P⁸.
"Portrait of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, bust in profile to right but looking at the viewer, wearing neckerchief and collar of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval on a pedestal"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image. and The following text appears below the portrait: "In the Collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Burlington."
"Satire on the financial crisis in 1720 with two plates one framing the other. In the centre an etching showing a nymph (Pecunia) and a satyr embracing underneath a palm tree, on the left clouds and wind, on the right coins dropping from the sky, in the foreground, a dish of horse droppings wrapped in gold foil (according to the verse description), a mariner's compass lettered "West" and "Zuid" and papers referring ominously to the financial situation in the coming year. The frame consists of strapwork peopled by callot figures: at the top a civet-cat peers over a cartouche lettered with the title, on either side is draped the cloak of a fool covered with hawks' bells; on the left, at the top, hangs a pair of skates, below this a young dwarf leans out of a window raising his hand to throw a stone, and below him is a large fan of feathers; on the right, at the top, hangs a pair of fur mittens, below this a dwarf looks out of a window blowing his fingers to warm them, and below him hangs a horse-collar (?) decorated with two eagles' heads; at the bottom, a dwarf wearing a fur cap sits in a sledge propelling himself with a stick, beside him, to left, lies a large bundle of twigs and an axe, and, to right, a spade and pick-axe. Engraved Dutch titles, inscriptions, and verses in two columns alluding to the Scotch trader (i.e., John Law)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The keepsake of January which, because of the new golden age, was transformed in horse-figs : New-Year's gift perfumed by the musk of fools' horses and dedicated to Pecunia, Goddess of Money, by the Prince of Stocks, or Viceroy of Plutus, nourishing his ill-placed love in a new hiding-place., Four columns of verse in Dutch above and below the smaller plate: Geen beter Gift in 't Niewe Jaar Was ooit voor 't Actie volk te vinden ..., Plate 82 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark.
14 p. The first letter chiefly concerns Matthias Claudius; mentions of Herder, the brothers Stolberg, Bahrdt, Bodmer, Lenz; the third and fourth letters contain a character sketch of Goethe, with mention of Werther, Wagner's Prometheus and Menschen, Thiere und Goethe
Correspondence with Eliza von- der Recke chiefly relating to Cagliostro. With handwritten transcripts of his Manifest, copies of letters to von Blankenberg, and copies of letters from C.F. Nicolai, all relating to Lavater's controversy with Nicolai. Includes exchange of letters between Elisa von der Recke and J.D. Uhlenhuth; her letter to Uhlenhuth is in a ms. copy and includes Tiedge's poem An Christus; also bound in are autobiographical notes by her and a fragment of an account of her return trip from Italy in the company of Tiedge and party. With typed manuscripts of all items.
Title from caption engraved below image., Attributed to Kingsbury in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Coffeehouses: Nando's -- China -- Mary Edmonds, fl. 1772-1787.
Title inscribed at top of image., Plate numbered '36' in upper right corner., Six lines of verse below image: If these hirelings must judge and judge by their own laws, let them find themselves quarters, a very just cause ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3401 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Alehouses: 'Man of Kent'.
Title from item., Six lines of verse below image: If these hirelings must judge and judge by their own laws, let them find themselves quarters, a very just cause ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '36' in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Alehouses: 'Man of Kent' -- Hessians., and Mounted to 17 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 30, 1756, by Edwards and Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Strand