McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait standing whole-length in profile to left supporting large lute with her right hand, beside harpsichord in interior, head turned to face front, wearing white satin dress with pearls, lace and ribbon; armchair, pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3229., Mounted on page 198 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 : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 50.4 x 35.3 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits C682 no. 2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait standing whole-length in profile to left supporting large lute with her right hand, beside harpsichord in interior, head turned to face front, wearing white satin dress with pearls, lace and ribbon; armchair, pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3229.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Mrs. Lessingham (No. 10) and Justice Addington of Bow Street (No. 11).
Alternative Title:
Upright magistrate
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête extracted probably from the Oxford magazine, April 1792., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, June 1777 (ix, 233) with different titles and plate numbers., Variant state of No. 5415 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Great seal of King William the Third and Queen Mary
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., Text in image, surrounding both seals: "Gulielmus III et Maria II dei gra Ang. Fra. et Hib. rex et regina fidei defensor &c.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, and Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694,
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
"Portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of St Michel; in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond and cartouche below; a weeping putto seated next to an axe and resting his hand on a crown below"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved in image., Caption below image: "In the collection of Mr. Richardson.", and Publisher from catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum, v. 3, p. 340.
Title from text below image., Approximate date of publication assigned by curator., Photomechanical reproduction of a stipple engraving, originally made by Joseph Singleton after P. Sauvage, that was published as a plate to The European magazine, v. 32 (October 1797), page 147. Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 152., and "From the engraving in the European Magazine, 1797."--Below title.
"Portrait of William Beckford, from his monument in the Guildhall; whole length, standing, looking to the left, wearing fur trimed robes and garter chain; seated by his feet to the left a female personification of the City of London weeping, and on the right the figure of Trade & Commerce shown slouching with head bowed; the statue on large pedestal; book illustration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.5031., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 24 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770 and Beckford, William, 1709-1770,
Portrait of the chronologer William Parsons; bust, in profile to the right, with long hair, wearing breast plate and cloak; in decorated roundel
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from annotations at bottom of sheet., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in ink at bottom of sheet: Coll. Parsons ; S.G.