publish'd pursuant to an act of Parliament, 15 July 1746.
Call Number:
Topos It88 no. 4++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of an overgrown, ruined, domed classical building, on the left, in a field with uneven ground, bushes and trees, with a house to the right, a statue of a man wearing a laurel wreath on a pedestal in the right foreground and figures, including a boy lying on a piece of fallen masonry to the left, an old man walking towards him and pointing back at a woman who carries a basket on her head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered "3" in lower left corner.
"View at night of the structure erected for the firework display in St James's Park in 1749, showing the fireworks in action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
View of the public fireworks exhibited on occasion of the general peace concluded October 7, 1748
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from description of varaint state in the British Museum online catalogue., Variant (earlier?) state, showing fewer fireworks, of a print in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Plate numbered "9" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 179 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.
"Millbank, looking westwards towards Chelsea; a man leads an ass laden with vegetables along a road beside the river between trees about to cross a stream in the right foreground, a woman with a mop on her shoulder follows him; two men fish from a boat; on the far side of the river, in Lambeth, a windmill; in the distance the recently opened Battersea Bridge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist attribution from British Museum online catalogue., Publication date based on that of earlier state., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate, of a print published in 1789 by R. Sayer. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1717]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 140++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the Church of St Mary-le-Strand, showing the statue of St Anne on the Portico, with further statues in the niches on the south side; elegantly dressed figures on Strand around church, a sedan chair and a carriage on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prospectum hunc Templi Stae. Mariae in vico dicto the Strand
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., "Debito Obsequio D.D. Jacobus Gibbs Architectus"--Below title, lower right corner., and Watermark.
Title from text above image., Questionable date of publication from annotation in pencil below plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: Know, all the distant din the world can keep rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep ... A. Pope., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and No. 9, "Pope's Villa," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
View of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London; figures and carriages on street in foreground; shops adjoining church to the left
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate numbered "10" in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and St. Mary-le-Bow (Church : London, England),
"View of Buckingham House from outside the gates on to the park, without the fountain, a few elegantly dressed figures strolling around the yard, other figures outside gates in the park; an inscription on the building is lettered 'Sic Siti Laetantur Lares'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "22" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowe's Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Title etched below image., Plate from: Hoare, R.C. The history of modern Wiltshire: hundred of Dunworth and vale of Noddre. London : Printed by and for John Bowyer Nichols and son ..., 1829., and "Plate II"--Above image.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Hoare, R.C. The history of modern Wiltshire: hundred of Dunworth and vale of Noddre. London : Printed by and for John Bowyer Nichols and son ..., 1829., and "Plate III"--Above image.