"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 82' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: thatched overhang -- Old Maiden Head -- Elizabeth I.
Title from item., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., An engraved letter in form of rebus, addressed to the Duke of Bedford on his appointment as Ambassador to France in 1762., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to land tax -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '48' in upper right corner of design., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Gibbets., and Munted to 17 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title etched above image., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., Plate numbered: 49., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.', and Mounted to 31 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-4 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Furnishings: bed curtain -- Emblems: Scotch bonnet for Lord Bute -- Wall mirror -- Female dress: stays., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record and based upon other plates from the series., Plate from book: Joe Lisle's play upon words, pub by Thomas McLean, 1828., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1779]
Call Number:
Folio 75 L847 750
Collection Title:
Leaf 63. London and its environs about 1750.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View in Green Park as it appeared in 1735, looking towards Westminster Abbey, only one of its towers completed, with Buckingham House before it became a royal residence at mid-distance on the right; a cow being milked in foreground to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Antiquarian repertory. London : Printed for the proprietors and sold by F. Blyth [etc.], 1775-1784, v. 3., Mounted to 24 x 37 cm., Leaf 63 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation on mounting sheet, in a later hand: Before the towers of West. Abbey were finished.
Publisher:
Published 1st June 1779 by Richd. Godfrey, No. 120 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Green Park (London, England),
Subject (Name):
Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
"View of the Thames, with the Adelphi at far left on opposite shore, St Paul's in mid-distance, Blackfriars Bridge to its right and the steam engine at the York Buildings waterworks on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 89., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 279.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Blackfriars Bridge (London, England), Thames River (England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), and York-Buildings Company,
Subject (Topic):
Waterfronts, Buildings, Bridges, Rivers, Sailboats, and Rowboats
Title from caption etched above image., Motto below image: Finis coronat opus., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reversed copy of: No. 4079-6 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Mouth of Hell -- Monsters -- Devil -- Mottoes: finis coronat opus., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793