"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 159); standing half-length to front and leaning on book on table before her, looking to left, wearing fur-trimmed mantle, dress with wide lace cuffs and ribbon bows on bodice, and pearls."--British museum online catalogue, description of a different plate of similar composition
Alternative Title:
Elizabeth Countess of Berkley and Elizabeth Countess of Berkeley
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who presumably laid an impression of this print into his extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly laid in at page 53 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.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Shon ap-Morgan's reconcilement to the fairy princess
Description:
Title etched below image., Date assigned by cataloger., A reduced copy of a print with the same title that was etched by Gillray and published 30 June 1796 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 8818 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate numbered "81" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Orders: Garter, Ribbon, and Star -- Jersey -- Reference to George III -- Mountains of Wales., and Leaf 26 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827.
The author of the epilogue is identified in editions of the full play as Miles Peter Andrews., The epilogue is to "Speculation", by Frederick Reynolds; the play was first performed and printed in 1795., Verse begins: "The drama done, permit us now to say"., In one column with the title centered above; no ornamental type present on sheet., The text printed here varies in a number of places from that in printed editions of the full play., Mounted on leaf 21. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
"Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Subject (Topic):
Elopements, Firearms, Servants, and Carriages & coaches
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament Feby. 26th 1740.
Call Number:
740.02.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
European race for a distance anno dom. 1740
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of quotation from Bible below title: Therefore behold! I will proceed to do marvelous works ... Isaiah 29, verse 14., and Watermark.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 6791 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 70 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Title from caption., A letter in form of rebus., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum Cat., no. 4012., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Beelzebub by a demon, Lord Bute by his portrait., Temporary local subject terms: Devil -- Excise: cider tax., and Watermark.
The device is printed above the title and signed: Thos. Mitchell inv. et del. ; I. Russel sculp., Incorporated within the device: "Philoinvestigists Society Aug. 1781.", In one column with etching and title centered above and enclosed in ornamental border., Text within design: Study to follow natures laws from each effect to trace its cause; nature and art a fund supplies to make men moral good and wise., Also known as "Hampstead Philoinvestigists Society"; founded as a philanthropic organization., Mounted on leaf 23. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Thomas Panton (No. 6) and Miss Carter, a courtesan (No. 5).
Description:
Title from item., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country Magazine, December 1777 (ix, 569) with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5421 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.