"Miss Berridge; whole-length, sitting on clouds, directed, facing and looking to the left, holding a small vase in her right hand, into which a swooping eagle is about to place its beak, cover of vase in her left hand; state with title and publication line engraved a second time, with date, over the first."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Berridge
Description:
Title engraved below image. Imprint in scratch letters twice, earlier statement barely visible above later statement., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the caption below image, see also British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6582., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 12 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.
Publisher:
Published accord. to act of Parliament by S. Hooper no 25 Ludgate Hill
Portrait of Henry IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, holding his sceptre against his left shoulder and a rose in his right hand, with a small beard and moustache and a turban with a jewelled brooch, dressed in an embroidered doublet lined with ermine with a chain of office about his neck; in a rectangular frame with ornaments including at the top with two lions with a paw each on a rose with a crown overhead. Below another crest with weapons with banners labeled "Lancaster".
Alternative Title:
Henry the Fourth and Henry IV
Description:
Title from text in image., Text below image: "Taken from a Picture at Hampton Court, Herefordshire.", and Plate to folio ed. of Rapin and Tindal's History of England, 1732-1733.
Gunst, Pieter Stevens van, 1659?-1724?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1788]
Call Number:
Drawer 788.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later state with different lettering. Earlier state published ca. 1715 as one of a series of ten plates by Gunst after van Dyck; see British Museum online catalogue, registration number: Kk,5.5.4., Publication date based on that of the bound volume in which this print appears., Plate LXVIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat.
Publisher:
Publish'd by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669,
"Portrait of Henry Compton, Bishop of London, half length in oval, long hair and wearing a cap and episcopal robes."--From description of similar print from British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date span from British Museum record 1902,1011.86 and from death date of publisher., and Sheet to plate mark with possible loss of text.
Publisher:
Sold by I. Smith att [sic] the Golden Lyon in Russel Street Convent Garden
Volume 1, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 277); half-length standing to front with eyes to left, within landscape; dressed in plain coat and spotted waistcoat with his right hand resting on the portfolio held under his left arm; the lower part of the image cast in shadow; state with title and description."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0610.12., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 1 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and With a clipping from volume 4 of Anecdotes of painting in England pasted below, beneath which Horace Walpole has added "pref. to 4th vol. of Anecd. of Painting" in ink.
Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 1 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; oval image 32.1 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 41.4 x 32.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, à la poupée and some hand-coloring ; sheet 11.3 x 9.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., With wash-line mount of laid paper with "J. Whatman" watermark. Also on verso another wash-line mount with missing drawing or print., and Titled in ink in a contemporary hand on mount below image: Henry Carey Earl of Monmouth : from an original at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, with long curly hair, bust to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing broad lace collar and sash over doublet; in an oval, within rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., After a picture by Theodore Russel that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 62 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., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 13.6 x 10.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Publish'd 22 Sepr. 1798 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, & P. Brown, Crown St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)