"Interior view of the auditorium of the Opera House in Haymarket, London; a performance taking place; actors dancing on stage, the audience watching from six tiered galleries on either side, and from the pit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 59., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 213.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Theatre (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Opera houses, Interiors, Auditoriums, and Audiences
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Rise, middle, and no-end of the crafty John Law., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Four columns of verse in Dutch below central design: Nu Lauw ziet dat de Goude schyven ..., Plate 9 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Watermark in the right part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the left part.
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: village cottage -- Press gangs -- Containers: tub -- Containers: barrel -- Children -- Furniture: cradle -- Hearth -- Trades: butcher -- Buildings: church., and Mounted to 34 x 46 cm.
Title from item., Address of partners Darly & Edwards in 1756. See DNB entry for Matthew Darly., Plate numbered '41' in upper right corner., Nine lines of text below title: Beloved by the bravest of people, justly admire by all ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 16 cm.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book vii, page 25 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 69 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"Jerry Hawthorn handing a lady into a coach, Corinthian Tom following with a lady on his arm, both gentlemen dressed in dark coats, holding opera hats, both ladies wrapped in shawls with feathers in their hair, a coachman standing at the door to the coach, two link boys with flaming torches offering their services to Tom, a large crowd behind them in the colonade outside of the opera house, a beadle pushing his way through the masses and two infantrymen on guard at the near door, one chatting to a young girl, a man shouting to the right; illustration to Egan's "Life in London" (1821)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Egan, Pierce. Life in London., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark.
"A printing-press, behind which stands a printer; he shouts, waving his hat towards a placard on the wall: "The Queen for ever Procession to Brandenburg House." Behind him is pasted a large sheet of 'The Times October 1820'. On the left are three men in melancholy consultation. Behind them is a placard: 'The Liberty of the Press is like the air we breath, if we have it not, we die.' P. 16: P, for the Press that exposes the view, Which tyrants in despite of reason pursue, ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
P, for the press that exposes the view which tyrants in despite of reason pursue ...
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 11 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):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Rosco.
"Interior of the Pantheon on Oxford Street, during a masquerade; the hall crowded with figures in costume dancing and making merry; a band plays on the stage; other figures on balconies to left and right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 60., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 215.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
A representation of Charles XII's battle plan when he fought the Russians and the Turks. The medals decorating the bottom of the plate depict his opponents, Peter the Great of Russian and the Turkish Achmet's vizier
Description:
State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "XXVI. B."--Upper left corner., "T. II."--Upper left corner., and One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa.
A representation of Charles XII's battle plan when he fought the Russians and the Turks. The medals decorating the bottom of the plate depict his opponents, Peter the Great of Russian and the Turkish Achmet's vizier
Description:
State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "XXVI. B."--Upper left corner., "T. II."--Upper left corner., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., and On page 16 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 25.5 x 17.7 cm.