Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1791]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man laying the seeming dead Juliet out on a bed, as the friar gestures to heaven, trying to comfort her mother, who approaches clasping her hands together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Shakspeare' etched above title., and Also inscribed with ten lines of dialogue on either side of title: "Fr. Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not ... Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1791, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide, As you like it, Act 2, Sc. 3.", 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:
Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 February 1791]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Frances Abington after Reynolds (Mannings 32), in the character from Bickerstaffs's 'The Sultan'; half-length, standing, looking to right, appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Hamilton., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Aa,9.22., Sheet trimmed into an oval shape (23.8 x 19.4 cm), with ink wash added to fill in the blank spaces around the rectangular portrait; window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 174 (leaf numbered '212' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Title and statements of responsibility written in ink at bottom of mounting page, in a later hand: Mrs. Abington as 'Roxalana' in the "Sultan" / Sir J. Reynolds, pinx. ; J.K. Sherwin, sculp.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1, 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815, (Frances Barton), and Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812.
"George IV (left), covered with orders, flees in terror from a figure (right) composed of rectangular slabs of different size, all inscribed 'Address', except for the head, which is inscribed 'Queen', and the feet: 'Feeling' and 'Sense'. This figure extends an arm towards the King, from its feet rays of light slant towards him. P. 19: S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, That told what a cowardly action deserves; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, that told what a cowardly action deserves ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
"Three men on the deck of a small sailing-vessel. Boswell, his knees flexed, stands in profile to the left holding the end of a rope and looking at Col, in Highland dress, who holds up his finger admonishingly. His Scots cap flies from his head, his coat-tails blow in the wind, his ink-pot dangles from his neck, his 'Journal' is under his left arm. A sailor (right) stands in back view leaning against the side of the vessel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "As I saw them all busy doing something, I asked Col. with much earnestness what I could do. He with a happy readiness put into my hand a rope which was fixed to the top of one of the masts ..." Vide Journal p. 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ink pot., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-159.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Inkstands, Dancing, Scottish, Costumes, Sailing ships, and Sailors
Title from caption below image. and On same sheet: The pursuit ; Weller & Pickwick ; Mr. Perker -- Whist at Wardles -- Fat boy & crow ; Cricketer ; Winkle rook shooting ; Pickwick drunk ; Winkle drunk.
Publisher:
Pub. May 15th, 1837, by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand and Standidge & Cos. Lithy
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Sancho sits beside his physician Pedro Rezzio who stays his hand that is posed with a fork full of meat. Two platters have already been placed on the table, and two more (one with a rabbit and the other with clams) are brought to the table by two young servant boys. On the left a group of three ladies stand behind Sancho's chair, one pointing to him. Behind the physician on the right a larger group of men, one woman, and a black man laugh at the scene around the table. In the upper right on a balcony, three musicians play for the guests below. From the lower right, a dog looks at a platter of food
Alternative Title:
Sancho at the magnificent feast prepared for him at his government of Barataria and Sancho's feast
Description:
Title from caption below image., Statement of responsibility in lower right, following imprint., State from Paulson., Title continues: " ... Pedro Rezzio his phisician [sic], out of great care for his health ordering every dish from the table before the governour tasts it.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark, On page 85 in volume 1. Mounted on sheet: 29.2 x 29.9 cm., and MS pencil note in Steevens hand above print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 248.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Overton & J. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate
Sancho sits beside his physician Pedro Rezzio who stays his hand that is posed with a fork full of meat. Two platters have already been placed on the table, and two more (one with a rabbit and the other with clams) are brought to the table by two young servant boys. On the left a group of three ladies stand behind Sancho's chair, one pointing to him. Behind the physician on the right a larger group of men, one woman, and a black man laugh at the scene around the table. In the upper right on a balcony, three musicians play for the guests below. From the lower right, a dog looks at a platter of food
Alternative Title:
Sancho at the magnificent feast prepared for him at his government of Barataria and Sancho's feast
Description:
Title from caption below image., Also signed lower right, following imprint: W. Hogarth inv. et sculpsit., State from Paulson., "Price 1s."--Upper right corner., Title continues: " ... Pedro Rezzio his phisician [sic], out of great care for his health ordering every dish from the table before the governour tasts it.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; signature on lower right faint.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Overton & J. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate