Portrait of Gilbert Wakefield with a plain background, seated to the left, looking right, arms resting on a table in front of him, right hand resting on papers/a book. Balding, wearing a white stock(?), dark waistcoat and jacket with edged cuff
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece to v. 1 of: Wakefield, G. Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield. London : J. Johnson, 1804., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Civis erat qui libera posset verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero. Juv. Sat. IV. v. 90"--Beneath title., This image resembles a larger print portrait of Gilbert Wakefield made by Robert Dunkarton, also after William Artaud, and published by Hannah Macklin in 1802 (see e.g. British Museum 1870,1008.2735)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 589 (leaf numbered '20' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"Portrait of Joseph Haydn, half-length, facing front, seated on a chair, writing a music score on a table, holding a quill pen in his right hand; after A. M. Ott; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Baudi di Vesme, A. Francesco Bartolozzi., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 592 (leaf numbered '26' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs April 4, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from text below image., First published ca. 1675-1700; this is a late 18th-century reissue., After Francis Place (1647-1728). See National Portrait Gallery, London, pen and ink sketch., and Publication date from National Portrait Gallery, London.
Publisher:
Published by W. Richardson, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1742 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait standing half-length to left within oval frame, head turned to face front, wearing bonnet, fur tippet, cape and muff."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3392., "Price 2" scratched in lower right corner., Mounted on leaf numbered 21 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Facius, Johann Gottlieb, approximately 1750- printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[10 May 1809]
Call Number:
809.05.10.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portait of William Cole, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in a mantle over his dark frockcoat with a powdered bobwig on his head, his arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Imprint from untrimmed impression in the British Museum., Copy trimmed with loss of imprint., and Formerly housed in Misc Mss (now LWL Mss 36) with a 1770 letter to James Granger from William Cole.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 10. 1809. by I.G. & G.S. Facius N.8 Macclesfield Street Soho
"Portrait of Hans Holbein, half-length, in an oval, slightly turned to the left, dressed in a doublet with an open collar and a skull-cap on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.289., Reversed copy of a print by Wenceslaus Hollar after a self-portrait miniature by Hans Holbein; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and Mounted on page 106 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Portrait standing half-length to left, facing front, holding a mask to his chest with his right hand, wearing cloak over his left shoulder, over coat with slashed sleeves and Van Dyck collar; curtain behind
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below image: "Photo-Etching.", Reproduction of a mezzotint published by Ryland & Bryer (Firm). See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Place of publication from cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, p. 537, and Mounted on paper: 326 x 254 mm.
Title from first line of letterpress verse surrounding the image., Engraved from Hearne's portrait by Tillemans., Four lines of satirical verse printed around the plate: Hearnius, behold! in closet close y-pent, Of sober face, with learned dust besprent, To future ages will his dulness last, Who hath preserv'd the dulness of the past., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., Subject identified by J. Reed on second mounting sheet, recto and in later unknown hand on first mounting sheet, recto., and Mounted to 22 x 18 cm, window mounted to 30 x 24 cm.