Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, printers, [1842]., and Attributed to Fairholt who drew illustrations for the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue. See London magazine, ca. 1843.
Publisher:
Smith and Robins
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Evans, William, active 1797-1812, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1 March 1809]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Queen Charlotte, bust directed to right, looking towards the viewer, in white turban, loose gown with frilled collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Bound in opposite page 428 (leaf numbered '39' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Queen, consort of George III, 1744-1818,
"Portrait after Beechey, vignette-style with the King almost half-length slightly to left, head turned to look over his left shoulder, face in three-quarter profile, wearing uniform and three cornered hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His Majesty King George the Third
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 320 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
"Portrait of George IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, in gold-laced military uniform buttoned to the neck, an aiguillette and lace epaulette on his shoulder, a riband across his chest and the Order of the Golden Fleece on a ribbon about his neck, the stars of other orders pinned to his breast, the whole surrounded by a rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His Most Excellent Majesty George IV
Description:
Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left margin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 480 (leaf numbered '85' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 4th, 1819, by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
"Head and shoulders looking to right with embroidered coat and wearing garter chain"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication and printmaker's name from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3633., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer Printseller, in Fleet Street
"Portrait; almost half-length standing to left, head turned towards the viewer, wearing a double-breasted military coat with a star of the Garter and powdered hair tied at the nape; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 690 (leaf numbered '146' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd by E. Harding
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, and Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
"Portrait seen almost half-length slightly to right within oval frame, his head turned to face l, wearing armour, sash, neckcloth and long, full wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a similar print
Alternative Title:
John Dux Marlborough, March. Blanfort
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist and date from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Text on edge of oval frame in print: Armis circumdatus ipse suscitat, eratasque acies in praelia cogit.--Virg. 9 aenid., and Mounted on paper support: 328 x 237 mm.
"Portrait of John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a neckerchief and brocaded jacket with star of the Order of the Garter; in an ornamental oval; an owl and books below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Duke of Lauderdale
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "In the collection of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart"--Below image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., and Mounted on page 48 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton, Londini
Subject (Name):
Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682 and Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1753]
Call Number:
Portraits G442 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in the image: A plan of the Radcliffe Library., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3288., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 39.8 x 29.9 cm.
Title from caption below image., Title from item., Printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and "Front to his Poems of Ossian."--Catalogue of engraved British portraits.