"View of large house from surrounding fields; a couple with a dog stands in foreground looking towards lodge to the right, sheep in field on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Third in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 48 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
View of the small "oratory of St. Nicholas" perched on a tiny island in Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with initials and dated in lower left corner. "I.G.", i.e., Isabella Godfrey, the married name of Augusta Isabella Ingram., and Probably engraved and printed in England, where the printmaker presumably lived after marrying John Godfrey of Sandwich, Kent, in 1823. Possibly worked up from a sketch made on a post-nuptial continental tour.
"View in an oval frame, showing different parts of the school and hospital on Newgate Street, London; an arcade at the back lines one side of the courtyard, pupils and school masters in yard; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a separate plate; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the library founded in 1429 by Richard Whittington
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image., Heading to six lines of engraved text on a separate plate (7.5 x 17.5 cm), printed beneath plate with image: A view of the library founded in 1429 by Richard Whittington., Citation at bottom of text on separate plate: See Pennants London 3d edition., Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London : Pubd. by J. Sewell [etc.], 1791[-1800]., and Bound in opposite page 205 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.119
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of a cave, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment and frieze
Description:
Title from text below image., Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire., and Printed on thin lithographic paper contemporaneously laid on thicker wove sheet.
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
829.00.00.115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of tomb of the Plauzia family, near Tivoli, Italy
Description:
Title from text below image. and Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire.
Publisher:
privately printed
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Tivoli.
Subject (Name):
Mausoleo dei Plauzi (Tivoli, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Rivers, and Ruins
"View of the villa with house to the left, the river to the right with bridge in the back; a cart in the river collecting water, two figures talking in the left, looking towards the river."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eleventh in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 60 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Publish'd 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Richmond Bridge (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Asgill, Charles, Sir, 1762-1823
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Rivers, Bridges, Dwellings, and Carts & wagons
"View of Copenhagen House, from the gardens; two slim and one stout man smoking a pipe stand in foreground, a horse to their left, two further men walk away from tavern to right, looking suspiciously towards the other men, behind them men play a game of skittles; fields in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Southeast view of Copenhagen House
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., For a nearly identical print, probably from a different plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.5.9., and Leaf 64 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Islington (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Taverns (Inns), Pipes (Smoking), and Games
Opposite page 1. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from contemporary manuscript note "From The weekly miscellany no. 11, 1772, very inaccurately taken" in upper margin. The weekly miscellany was a continuation, from 1773 onward, of: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772-., Plate from: An appendix to the Sherborne mercury, or, The weekly magazine. [Sherborne] : [R. Goadby], 1772., A later state of the plate, with volume number added in upper left, was published in: New display of the beauties of England. London : R. Goadby, 1773., Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark., "P. 22"--Above image in upper right., Cf. Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 254., Mounted opposite page 1 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3., and Inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
R. Goadby
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Page 83. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Temple Bar du côté du couchant
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Beeverell, J. Les délices de la Grande Bretagne, & de l'Irlande. A Leide : Chez Pierre Vander Aa, MDCCVII [1707], v. 4, opposite page 834., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., Mounted on page 83 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]., and Note in ink below image, on mounting page: Temple, Ludgate Hill, and St. Pauls, 1730.