"Portrait after a drawing by Lawrence; bust-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Q,2.58.
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with scratch lettering and lacking engraved frame. For later state, see the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, p. 377., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper ; sheet 37.4 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Inscribed in ink at bottom of sheet, in Mary Berry's hand: To Lord Sheffield from M. & A. Berry.
"Portrait after a drawing by Lawrence; bust-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Q,2.58.
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with scratch lettering and lacking engraved frame. For later state, see the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, p. 377., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper ; sheet 34.2 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Inscribed in ink at bottom of sheet, in Mary Berry's hand: To Mr. Bull from M. & A. Berry., and Pencil annotation in lower left corner, in Richard Bull's hand: Only 60 proofs were taken off.
Volume 1, page 1. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after a drawing by Lawrence; bust-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, within engraved border., Attribution to William Evans (as opposed to the stated "T. Evans") and date of publication from the signature "Wm. Evans sculpt. 1797" on proof state. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Portraits W218 no. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 1 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous for his daring escapes from multiple prisons in London
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
"Portrait of Thomas Gray; head and shoulders, directed to left, head in profile, wearing a plain open coat, jacket, cravat, high collar and long hair tied at the nape beneath a short wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,0701.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from text below image., Place of publication based on sitter's known place of activity., and Date of publication based on year sitter debuted on the London stage as Robin Roughhead in Fortune's frolic; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Edward Knight (1774-1826).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Knight, Edward, 1774-1826, and Allingham, John Till, active 1799-1810.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication surmised from the year Dimond first appeared on stage, per Oxford Dictionary of national biography., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Text above image: Engraved for the Ladies Magazine., Text below title: Alba. Here is my picture &c., and In paper frame: 307 x 254 mm.
A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head
Description:
Title in scratched letters at top of image, partially in reverse; the individual letters are printed correctly but the words themselves run right to left on the print., Printmaker attribution and date from impression at the Library and Archives Canada (Acc. No. 1938-223-42), on which the contemporary statement of responsibility "by Mrs. Simcoe 1794" is written in ink., After a drawing by British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton, who travelled with Pacanne during the American Revolution. The original drawing is now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard., A slightly later date is suggested by a contemporary ink annotation beneath plate mark on Lewis Walpole Library impression: An Indian Chief N. America of the Miamis tribe (from life 1795)., and Presumably one of only two small plates etched by Simcoe, which were sent to England in 1794 and printed in Bristol and London; see Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Elizabeth Posthuma (Simcoe) Gwillim.