Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand in margin at top of print: See p. 1 & Mr. Nichols's book, 3d, edit. p. 295., and On page 147 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 39.6 x 29.9 cm.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Self-portrait of William Hogarth in a fur cap, looking right; a bust in an oval canvas resting on volumes of Shakespeare's works; with his dog Trump on the right. In the lower right, an artist's palette engraved with the words: "The line of beauty and grace. WH 1745". Stack of books labeled: Shakspeare, Swift Works, Milton Paradise Lost
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Title, printmaker, artist, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits. Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity. and Annotation in ms. in right lower corner: April 12, 1797.
Volume 2, page 88. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on page 88 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : crayon manner on laid paper ; sheet 22.3 x 16.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 1st, 1794, by J. Jones, No. 74 Great Portland Street
Volume 2, page 88. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Figure identified by manuscript note in a contemporary hand in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 1st, 1794, by J. Jones, No. 74 Great Portland Street
"Portrait seen bust-length three-quarter profile to right, within oval frame, her hair piled hight, wearing necktie, vest and coat; proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2371., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "Lady Spencer" and "Proof" written at bottom of sheet in black ink, in a contemporary hand., Mounted on leaf numbered 19 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes "Lady Spencer," and "Proof," written in black ink in unknown hand., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Volume 1, page 23. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title from later state., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Name of the sitter written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1772, by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
Oval portrait of Henry Fielding; half length, profile to left. Finished state used as the frontispiece to Murphy's edition of 'The Works of Henry Fielding'.
Description:
Title, state, artist, date, and printmaker from Paulson., Sheet trimmed., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath image: Proof given by Basire to Hogarth., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's above print: See Nichols's book 3d. edit. p. 385., and On page 194 in volume 2.
"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., With Horace Walpole's manuscript annotations in brown ink in lower margin identifying the sitters and their relationships and a note: "The original picture at Strawberry Hill.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 50.5 x 58.4 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)