Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 13.7 x 9.1 cm, on sheet 17.8 x 12 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 4 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Geo. Onslow.
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image. and Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Full length portrait of D'Eon dressed half as a man and half as a woman. The left side of the figure wears a full and elegantly styled dress, with hair piled high in the pyramidal fashion of the times. The right side of the image is in men's attire including a military coat, the cross of St. Louis, and a sword
Alternative Title:
Chevalier d'Eon
Description:
Title from item., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46 p. 443., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. Sepr. 1777., and Soiled and stained at top of print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810,
"Portrait (whole-length) of a man standing in profile to the right holding a violin in his right hand, a bow in his left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First catgut scraper
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly etched by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., and First letters of imprint statement are lightly printed and illegible, possibly due to an imperfection in the plate. The letter 'S' in 'Street' in publisher's address is etched in reverse.
Publisher:
[Pu]bd. Nov. 27, 81, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 May 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 75. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole length, of a very stout woman standing in profile to right. Her right hand is thrust beneath her apron, a bunch of keys hangs from her waist. She wears a cap, elbow sleeves, a figured handkerchief or scarf, a straight full skirt over a quilted petticoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bald faced doe
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Edward Topham in the British Museum catalogue., "Epping" is a pseudonym of Matthias Darly; see British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Portrait of Mrs. Owen, an innkeeper at Epping Forest; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., and First of three plates on leaf 75.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, May 29th, 1772, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Owen, Mrs., -1783?,
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Aprons, Keys (Hardware), and Taverns (Inns)