Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Later state with additional numbering. For earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate also published in: Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. [London]: Pubd. by Mary Darly ..., 1776, p. 59., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-8., Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots -- Fans., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly (39) Strand
"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. BMSat 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-79., Printmaker identified as Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Title from text in bottom part of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834, Harvey, Francis, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Oudh (Princely State), Projectors, and Riviere & Son
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Title from caption below image.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers,--Duke of,--1592-1628,--depicted. and Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with possible loss of imprint., Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv, p. 22., Title continues: ... My dear feller, I've eat so much beef lately I'm ashamed to look a bullock in the face., and Title from lines of dialogue below image.
A weeping Lord North, with a bag labelled "The nations plunder" thrown over his shoulder, kneels in front of Charles Fox, begging him for protection as the devil, reining North in with a rope wound around his arms, pronounces him his favorite. Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, points out North's long record of breaking promises.
Alternative Title:
Lord North's supplication to Mr. Fox
Description:
Mounted to 27 x 42 cm., Publication date from George., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Marie de Médici and Louis XIII and Marie de Médicis and Louis XIII
Description:
1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below title: Draws the clean vestments o'er the little limbs ..., Suckling; May 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-5-1-69., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Infants -- Motherhood.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by A. Molteno, Printseller to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No. 76 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria, 1765-1834 and Molteno, Anthony