"Portrait, just more than half-length, facing front with arms folded in front of her, head tilted to right shoulder, smiling towards the viewer, wearing a dark dress and cloak around the arms, with an embroidered white shirt, a decorated cap with a widow's peak."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Inn keepers handsome daughter
Description:
Title etched below image., Additional statement of responsibility, "Faber fecit," present on earlier states of the plate; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Publication line includes etched underscores following "John Bowles" and "No. 13" that represent areas from which previous text was burnished; the burnished text "& Son" is faintly visible above the first underscore., and Mounted on page 126 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Portrait, half-length to the left, his left hand on hip, looking towards the viewer, holding a letter addressed to him as Secretary for War in his right hand at waist level, wearing a dark coat, cravat and long, pale wig; arms below; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print was issued., Plate no. 33 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London : Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Plate numbered "33" in lower right corner., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 570 (leaf numbered '163' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Tonson & J. Faber
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764.
"Portrait of Margaret, Lady Hardwicke, seated slightly to right, beside stone table with head turned to face front, three-quarter length, holding garland of flowers with two lambs beside her, landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from J.C. Smith., Mounted on leaf numbered 33 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"Portrait of a young woman, standing three-quarter length leaning on the rim of a fountain to the left, left hand on her right arm, looking to right, her cloak hung across her with a string of pearls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1311., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 37 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff., and "Mrs. Collier" written above publication statement in contemporary ms., black ink, unknown hand.
"Portrait of Mrs Paulett, seated, directed to left, hands folded in her lap, facing and looking to front, wearing feathered hat, pearl earring and jewel at her breast; after before Vanderbank; after publisher altered from Faber."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0403.103., Mounted on leaf numbered 32 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Portrait, seated to front and smoking pipe, almost whole-length, his arms resting on chair-backs, bottle, glass and paper on table at right. According to the British Museum catalogue, Benjamin Bradly [sic] was a tobacconist, and an opponent of Robert Walpole's excise bill
Description:
Title supplied by cataloguer., Text below image: Behold the Man, who when a gloomy Band, Of vile Excisemen threaten'd all the Land, Help'd to deliver from their Harpy Gripe, The chearfull Bottle and the Social Pipe, O rare Ben Bradly! may for This the Bowl, Still unexcis'd, rejoice thy honest Soul! May still the Best in Christendom for This, Heave to thy Stopper and compleat thy Bliss., A small crest showing Britannia smoking, centered between text below image., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait seen three-quarter length slightly to right but facing front, wearing pearls in her hair, column and landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from second state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1799., State from: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states., Mounted on leaf numbered 40 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.