Titles engraved below each of three images of seals., "Plate 1.", With another plate on same sheet: Seal of John Howard, the first Duke of Norfolk ... [London, 1784?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '1' in manuscript. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Below title: Not worth a halfpenny, sold for a guinea.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
790.00.00.127+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Clergy, Fathers, Occupations, and Sons
The image in the center of the plate shows a fox seated on a throne placed in an outdoor setting, with a city and a river in the background. Behind the fox, a lion holding a flag decorated with the fleur-de-lis, removes the crown from fox's head. In front of the throne lie a few dead sheep while another one is being devoured by a fox. The text added above the image explains that "The following exact copy of a print published in the year 1628 is offered for the amusement of the public with Sir Richard Hill's verses delivered in the House of Commons on Monday the 8th of March 1784, entitling them His Majesty's most gracious answer to the mover [i.e., Fox] of the late humble (...) address."
Description:
Title from item., Impression without the publication statement., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., "Price 6d.", Copy of the title page to Gommersall's The tragedie of Lodovick Sforza (...) with contemporary text added., and Mounted to 33 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foxes, Lions, Sheep, Thrones, Scepters, Crowns, and Cities & towns
Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: 1729?, Frontispiece from: Miller, J. Harlequin-Horace,or, The art of modern poetry. 3rd ed. London : Lawton Gilliver, 1735., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: scenery -- Theater: stage boxes -- Apollo -- Muses -- Literature: William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Literature: Benjamin Jonson, 1573?-1635 -- Literature: Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1744 -- Literature: allusion to Harlequin Horace by James Miller, 1706-1744 -- Harlequin -- Punch --Pierrot -- Mottoes: Vivitur ingenio -- Nicknames: "Lun" for John Rich -- Actors: Johnson, 1665-1742., and Mounted to 23 x 16 cm.
Shewing a good figure of a horse and Showing a good figure of a horse
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Artist identified in the British Museum catalogue., Reduced copy of a print published by S.W. Fores in 1801., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker based on other prints from the series., Date and place of publication extrapolated from other prints in the series., and Watermark.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1750 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits H257 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication, printmaker, and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1850,1214.106., Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity., Text below title: "From an Original Picture by B. Wilson in the Possession of William Fauquier Esqr." per image in British Museum online catalogue., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Scene [9] in a broadside on the Popish Plot, 1678., From: A true narrative of the horrid hellish popish plot ... The second part., One of twelve images from No. 1093 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Mounted to 11 x 11 cm.
Portrait of British magistrate Sir John Fielding, the blind brother of Henry Fielding; a bust in oval frame, with Fielding facing left and below the frame, a child holding emblems of justice -- a book, scales, and a sword
Description:
Title etched in image., Probably a book illustration, but not the engraving in Leslie-Melville's Life and work or the portrait in The malefactor's register (1779)., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.