publisch'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Douane de Londres et d'une partie de la Tour prise de la Thamise
Description:
Title from caption below image; French title also etched in reverse above image., Possibly a copy of a print with a similar title published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles and Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Heny. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue., "No. 22."--Upper right corner., and "50" written in ink in contemporary hand above plate mark on recto; "16 Serie Mo 4 [?]" written on verso.
Title in letter press above image., Publication date based on the date of Lord Bute's appointment in 1762., Two columns of text, separated with vertical ornamental border, below plate: Explanation., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Weapons: guns -- Dress: wooden shoes -- Emblems: thistle -- Executioner's axe -- Scots -- Protestants: reference to protestants -- Mottoes: Ense recidendum me pars sincera trabatur immedicabile vulnus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Firearms, Gallows, Lawyers, Military uniforms, British, and Shackles
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1742 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait seated half-length to right beside table and holding plan of the Foundling Hospital, eyes to front, wearing wig, plain coat and cravat; curtain and view of harbour through window behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,1.248., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 435., and On page 127 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Locke, Daniel, 1681 or 1682-1754, and Foundling Hospital (London, England),
Title from caption below image., Text following title: Canada is represented in the figure of an Indian paying homage to her royal conqueror ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and at top., and Written in contemporary hand in the upper right corner: "76"
Lady Ailesbury's invitation card designed by Bentley: with decorated border, three candles in candlesticks on the left and a teapot on the right. With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany
Alternative Title:
Lady Ailesbury's compts. to and desires the favour ..., Lady Ailesbury's compliments to and desires the favour ..., and Lady Ailesbury's invitation card
Description:
Title from etched text., Formerly mounted on leaf 14 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., The Lewis Walpole Library: With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany., and With ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Designed by Mr. Bentley.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., 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., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge., Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
according to act of Parliament, 1750.
Call Number:
Portraits C642 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 36.7 x 25.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ministers deserting East India reform, December 9, 1766 -- Maps: map of East India -- Coalitions: Bute and Chatham -- Personifications: Popularity -- Reform of the East India Company as a windmill -- Mythology: Atlas -- Hercules -- Personifications: Folly as an East Indian -- Gout: gouty shoes -- East Indians -- Crutches -- Emblems: Dutch East India Company as a windmill., and Identification below title in contemporary hand: Ld. Chatham.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and East India Company.
"Portrait seen three-quarter length, directed towards right, facing towards and looking to front, wig, velvet coat, ruffles, right arm across that of chair, hand holding pen, left arm on table to right, on which lie inkstand and papers addressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Horatio Walpole Esq
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before addition of date at end of artist's signature. Cf. State I in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 157, page 1122., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 43 x 33 cm., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil (traced in ink) in lower left corner: Created Lord Walpole June 1756.