"Portrait, three-quarter length; seated slightly to left on a high-back chair, with head turned to look towards right; wearing a cap, long open coat over buttoned waistcoat, shirt with lace ruffles at the wrists, and cravat; his right arm resting on a table, holding a quill pen in his hand; his left hand inside breast of coat; after Richardson; touched impression."--British Museum online catalogue
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the Duchess of Gordon and William Pitt the Younger
Alternative Title:
Miss Gordon
Description:
Titles etched below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 13 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of Peter [?], son of a glazier from Wells who made fortune during the war, and his cook-maid, Miss G.
Alternative Title:
Commissary
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 5 (1773), page 289.
"Portrait of Kitty Clive when Miss Raftor, as the shepherdess from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); three-quarter length half-turned away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown, hair up, holding a wreath above the head of a young man who leans in to kiss her from left, her left hand on his arm, his right hand on her waist, left arm around her back, holding hat, in a forest with sheep."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse below image: "In native Beauty clad without disguise ... And live in Pleasures which alternate spring.", Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6963., Note from British Museum online catalogue regarding artist: "Schalken died 5 years before Catherine Clive was born: this print is simliar to a mezzotint by Faber II after Bleeck (Chaloner Smith 85), and to a mezzotint by Faber inscribed with 'G Schliecken' as the painter's name (Russell 85a), which may have been the source for the erroneous inscription.", and Numbered in ms. at top left of verso: Mint. 5-3648.
"Portrait of the singer, performing at Vauxhall; holding sheet music, resting on ballustrade in front of him; an orchestra in background; in oval with ornaments at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Darley as performing in the orchestra at Vauxhall
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state: Barlow sculp., Later state, with printing plate cut down on right and left sides, removing part of the ornaments above portrait. Title has also been re-etched to fit the new dimensions, with printmaker's signature and imprint statement removed from the plate in the process. For the earlier state with the imprint "Published as the act directs by W. Locke, Septr. 1st, 1792", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1011.643., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 10., Inlaid to 55 x 38 cm., and Mounted on page 35 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Darley, William, approximately 1756-1809, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
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.