"Portrait seen almost half-length to left within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing robes, collar and long wig; with coat of arms and mace and purse below frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Sir Thomas Parker
Description:
Title, printmaker, imprint, and artist from Smith., Third state, with image altered to show Parker as Lord Chancellor and plate cut down to remove title. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "This state of the print must date from after 1718 as it shows the sitter with the robes and accoutrements of the Lord Chancellor which he became in that year (information from David Wilson FSA). The plate was originally published with lettering describing Parker as Lord Chief Justice, a post he held from 1710 to 1718"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1013.14., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Trimmed to image; with sitter's name in Horace Walpole's hand on tab mounted at the bottom.
Publisher:
J. Simon and E. Cooper?
Subject (Name):
Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, Earl of, 1666?-1732, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of William Pitt three-quarter length seated, his head slightly turned to left, his right hand resting on documents on a table; curtain and pillar in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.1338., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted.
"Portrait of Lady Charlotte Finch, three-quarter length, sitting resting left elbow on a grassy bank, head on her hand, holding a few flowers on her lap in right hand, wearing a low-necked gown with large, lacy sleeves, and large drop earrings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1425., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 13 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm. Ms. notes in black ink by unknown hand below image, misidentified as "Miss Fuller.", and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
"Portrait; half-length directed slightly to right, head tilted to left and glancing towards the viewer, in Van Dyck shepherdess dress with a crook, her hair dressed up with pearls and tresses over her shoulders; in an oval stone frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state in the British Museum., Printmaker, date of publication and publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, 2010,7081.2659., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and With curator's pencilled note: H. Walpole's wrtiting. From Gulston collection.
Publisher:
S. Okey
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
"Using a powerful diagonal composition echoed in smaller intersecting diagonals of lights and darks, Trumbull depicts the moment when General Montgomery expires in the arms of Major Matthias Ogden. Before him on the snow-covered ground lie the bodies of his two aides-de-camp, Captains Jacob Cheeseman and John MacPherson. Lieutenants John Humphries and Samuel Cooper and Lieutenant Colonel Donald Campbell surround the two central figures in a protective semicircle, while an Oneida Indian chief, Colonel "Joseph Louis," defiantly raises his tomahawk in the direction of the shots. Three figures in the left foreground, Major Return Johnathan Meigs and Captains Samuel Ward and William Hendricks, gesture in shock at the sight of their dying general. With spontaneous, fluid brushwork and a palette of rich, glowing colors, Trumbull conveys the excitement of the battle, and the intense drama surrounding the tragic death of Montgomery."--Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1854,0812.195., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility., and Engraved after a painting now held in the Yale University Art Gallery.
Publisher:
Published London Jany. the 1st 1794 as the Act of Parliament directs by A.C. de Poggi, No. 91 New Bond Street
Full length portrait of Marquis of Graham on left standing back to back with the Earl of Buchan. Both wear Highland dress
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Printmaker, title, place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836. and Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Full length portrait of Marquis of Graham on left standing back to back with the Earl of Buchan. Both wear Highland dress
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Printmaker and title from book., Numbered in upper right of plate: 116., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836. and Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
In a winter landscape, a man smoking a pipe carries an axe under one arm as he walks down a path in a field, a dog walking beside him; in his belt is a large knife, and in the distance on the left is a thatched cottage beyond a fence and stone wall
Description:
Title from published state. See: British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1941,1011.3. and Artist, printmaker, and publication information from statement of responsibility and imprint on published state: Barker pinxt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. London, Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., After the painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London., Artist from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, which also states: "This plate was engraved for the Poems 1753 but destroyed by Gray's desire.", and Lewis Walpole Library Quarto 532 C753 Copy 4: Bound in as the frontispiece opposite the title page: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLIII [1753]. Impression formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. notes. Trimmed to plate mark.
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on variant state: J.S. Müller sculpt., After a painting by J.G. Eccardt in the National Portrait Gallery, London. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved. According to the Catalogue of engraved British portraits, "This plate was engraved for the Poems, 1753, but destroyed by Gray's desire.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., For a variant state bearing printmaker's signature, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 376., Mounted on page 66 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., and Sitter's name "Mr. Thomas Gray" written in brown ink at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.