Title from first line of text., An engraved letter in the form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'well' in 'Cromwells' by a well, 'peech' in 'speech' by a peach, to by a toe, ass by a donkey, fox by a fox., Twelve lines of 'speech' in rebus below title: Those [men] t[hat] [love] t[hare] king & count[ry] ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '16' in upper right corner of design., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Sept. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
A glass urn painted with pictures of boys(?). The vessel on which the image is based was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Text "e vitro" etched near bottom of plate, in lower left., "Tab. IV"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 39 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.7 x 21.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A glass urn painted with pictures of boys(?). The vessel on which the image is based was part of the collection which Conyers Middleton acquired in Rome in 1723-4 and sold to Horace Walpole in 1744
Description:
Title from index on signature A of volume., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appears., Plate from: Middleton, C. Germana quaedam antiquitatis eruditae monumenta ... Londini : Apud R. Manby et H.S. Cox ..., 1745., Text "e vitro" etched near bottom of plate, in lower left., "Tab. IV"--Upper right corner., Mounted on page 51 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.2 x 20.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man rides a dray horse in profile to the left, leaning back and pulling hard at the reins (especially the snaffle), but the horse is stopped by the side of a hackney coach (left) through whose window is seen an agitated female hand. The driver turnes round angrily, holding up his whip."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man rides a dray horse in profile to the left, leaning back and pulling hard at the reins (especially the snaffle), but the horse is stopped by the side of a hackney coach (left) through whose window is seen an agitated female hand. The driver turnes round angrily, holding up his whip."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
"Interior view of the auditorium of the Opera House in Haymarket, London; a performance taking place; actors dancing on stage, the audience watching from six tiered galleries on either side, and from the pit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 59., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 213.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Theatre (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Opera houses, Interiors, Auditoriums, and Audiences
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: village cottage -- Press gangs -- Containers: tub -- Containers: barrel -- Children -- Furniture: cradle -- Hearth -- Trades: butcher -- Buildings: church., and Mounted to 34 x 46 cm.
Title from item., Address of partners Darly & Edwards in 1756. See DNB entry for Matthew Darly., Plate numbered '41' in upper right corner., Nine lines of text below title: Beloved by the bravest of people, justly admire by all ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 16 cm.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book vii, page 25 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 69 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"Jerry Hawthorn handing a lady into a coach, Corinthian Tom following with a lady on his arm, both gentlemen dressed in dark coats, holding opera hats, both ladies wrapped in shawls with feathers in their hair, a coachman standing at the door to the coach, two link boys with flaming torches offering their services to Tom, a large crowd behind them in the colonade outside of the opera house, a beadle pushing his way through the masses and two infantrymen on guard at the near door, one chatting to a young girl, a man shouting to the right; illustration to Egan's "Life in London" (1821)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Egan, Pierce. Life in London., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark.