Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
1841.
Call Number:
841.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portraits of John Jardine and Alexander Kidston, both whole-lengths, walking in street, in hats and coats, Jardine with spectacles and umbrella, Kidston in chequered waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Jardine
Description:
Title from text etched below each figure in image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Questionable publisher from that of the volume in which this plate was published., Plate also published in: Crombie, B. Modern Athenians: being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, MDCCCLI [1851]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of left half of image. Description based on impression in the British Museum., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 20.3 cm., and Imperfect; left half of print showing Alexander Kidston has been trimmed away, leaving only the right half showing John Jardine.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton?
Subject (Name):
Jardine, John, 1777-1850 and Kidston, Alexander, 1762-1850
"Portrait; head and shoulders to left, with a curly beard, wearing a hat with a turned-up brim ad a coat with a broad collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Paton, 1877, v. ii, no. 145., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Parson Adams and Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 130., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Lawyers: country justice -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: tables -- Slipcovered chairs -- Smoking: pipes -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Drinking glasses -- Night watchmen -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 233., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Ducking -- Practical jokes: ducking -- Clergy: parsons -- Tubs -- Furniture: chairs -- Stools -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fifth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 219., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Clergy: parsons -- Dogs: hunting dogs -- Hunters., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The History of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: kitchens -- Kitchen utensils -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: kitchen tables., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title assigned by the cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, imprint and placement directions., Place, publisher and date of publication from illustrations in the 1791 and 1792 editions of The History of Tom Jones. This illustration is not present in the Beinecke Library copies of either edition., Illustration to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones ... , Book IX, Chapter 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1791 by J. Sibbald, Edinr