A reduced plate of a portrait of The Right Honourable Frances Lady Byron shown less than full length looking right and pulling on a glove. The dog at her feet is gone and the ducks in the background have been reworked
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Frances Lady Byron
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 83 in volume 1. Mounted on secondary support with ruled black ink border to: 37.8 x 27.2 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
"Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, seated on a bank, left elbow leaning on a stone ledge, right hand in her lap, looking towards the viewer, wearing a loose dress, night landscape int he background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable the Countess of Jersey
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 47 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 Cornhil
"Portrait, half-length, facing front, facing and looking to front, wearing a cap trimmed with lace, a dress with large sleeves, lace at the cuffs, and broad skirts, drawing together a lace-trimmed scarf around her neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Carle Vanloo; see British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from lower edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1885,0509.1546., Mounted on page 162 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait of Mary Viscountess Andover, shown three-quarters length, standing, directed towards right, facing towards and looking to the front. She wears a low dress and is shown leaning on a pedestal with a panel carved image of a boy holding a sketch. On the pedestal are papers and a book; in her right hand she holds a crayon over her left arm, with a curtain and column behind on the left
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Mary Viscountess Andover
Description:
Title from text below image., "Price 2d."--Preceding imprint statement., Mounted on leaf numbered 2 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:
Sold by Faber at [the] Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive as the character Phillida from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); in rural setting with shepherd approaching at left with his arm around her waist; three-quarter length slightly to left, eyes to front, right hand seeming to restrain the shepherd, left raised to her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State and artist from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.181., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 36 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:
Sold by J. Faber at [the] Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square Holbourn
"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 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.