"A lady nurses a sleeping baby while another older girl approaches from the left; an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.10396., Proof state before title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges., Companion print to: The happy mother., Sheet annotated at top with the name "James Gillray," written in ink and in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham., 1 print : etching with aquatint, stipple & roulette on wove paper ; sheet 27.8 x 20.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Proof state before title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The tender mother., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
"Shipwreck of the Nancy packet returning from India in a stormy sea off the Scilly Isles, with group of women, children and sailors in wrecked boat; people clinging to pieces of wood under raging waves at right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from published state. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13497., Proof state before letters., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 12 of 12.
"Explosion in the Duke of Atholl, at anchor in the Madras Road, with group of sailors and women in a boat rowing away from the disaster; in the background a view of the harbour of Madras."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state with lettering
Alternative Title:
Duke of Atholl, East Indiaman and Duke of Athole, East Indiaman
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from later state. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13496., Proof state before letters; print later issued with the imprint: Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1785, by R. Wilkinson, No 58 Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 12 of 12.
"A tabby cat playing with a mouse, crouched with one paw raised as the mouse leaps in front of it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Frontispiece to an 1804 edition of: Collier, Jane. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1804, by W. Miller, Old Bond Street
Head and shoulders of Isaac D'Israeli, in profile to the right, with features exaggerated. Notes by the artist scribbled above and below image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Annotation (signature?) in lower right in pencil: Gillray delin., Date based on publication date of the print entitled "Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks! ...", which includes a similar but reversed depiction of D'Israeli in profile. Cf. No. 9923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., James Gillray, English caricaturist, 1756-1815., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
"Rechab, a male nude, rushing into a room from the right and lunging forward as he falls to his knees before David, holding up the severed head of Saul's son Ishbosheth in his right hand and pointing upwards with the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information based on that of the volumes in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ... . London: J. Murray [etc.], 1789-1798., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On verso is the bottom portion of a print by Bromley after Fuseli with the imprint: Published as the Act directs 20 Octr. 1791 by T. Holloway., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
"Three quarter length portrait of a child wearing a hat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Alternative Title:
Sketch'd by Humphrey, spoil'd by Gillray and Sketched by Humphrey, spoiled by Gillray
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from text below image on later state., Printmaker and artist from text below image on later state., Early state of a plate later defaced by scratches and published with additional text below image. Cf. No. 5912 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 12 of 12.
"Three quarter length portrait of a child wearing a hat. ... The plate has been defaced by scratches. A satire by Gillray on his own work as an engraver. A portrait of William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne (b. 15 Mar. 1779)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketch'd by Humphrey, spoil'd by Gillray and Sketched by Humphrey, spoiled by Gillray
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from statements of responsibility below image., Dedication, which includes publication information, etched below image: Dedicated to all lovers of your bold, masterly touches, & publish'd Novr. 1st, 1781, by J. Gillray, to shew the bad effect of cobbling & altering., One line of quoted text below dedication: "Fool that I was, thus to cobble my shoe.", and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Dedicated ... & publish'd Novr. 1st, 1781, by J. Gillray ... and Sold by R. Wilkinson, No. 58 Cornhill, London
