"View with the river at the centre, boats on the water, a man rasing his sail in the left, figures walking on the path in the foreground, including a man on horseback and a man fishing by the river; the city in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
North view of Roehampton and Veüe de Row-Hampton au nord
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 6 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Roehampton (London, England), Thames River (England), England, and London.
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Later state of a plate published by Henry Overton. Cf. Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15258., Date of publication inferred from publisher's statement; Laurie & Whittle took over the business of Robert Sayer in 1794. See British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with complete loss of imprint from bottom edge and partial loss of plate number from upper right. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression at the Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15259., Plate numbered "83" in upper right corner., Folded to 24.5 x 38.3 cm., and Leaf 58 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London
"View in an oval frame, showing the school building, part of Christ's Hospital on Newgate Street, London; a school master with a group of boys in coats in foreground, a church steeple in the background; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a separate plate; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image., Heading to nine lines of engraved text on a separate plate (7.4 x 17.4 cm), printed beneath plate with image: Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London., Citation at bottom of text on separate plate: See Pennants London, 3 edition., Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London : Pubd. by J. Sewell [etc.], 1791[-1800]., and Bound in opposite page 206 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1 - 1793 by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
"View of the tavern and tea house, known as Hornsey Wood House, in Harringay, north London; a family walking past in foreground, two pigs to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Fifth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 50 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septemr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
"Interior of the Royal Exchange; interior of the great quadrangle from the north-east corner of the inner cloister, or walk, with the clock tower on the left, and the court filled with merchants of various nations."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of the inside of the Royal Exchange in London
Description:
Title from dedication below image., Imprint statement lightly printed and barely visible; publisher and date of publication from imprint on companion print., and Companion print to: Perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London.
Publisher:
John Chapman
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Royal Exchange (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Stock exchanges, Quadrangles (Courtyards), and Merchants
"Exterior view of the Royal Exchange; looking down a busy street with carriages, carts and pedestrians, St Paul's Cathedral in the distance to the left, the prominent entrance of the Royal Exchange with tower to right; in right foreground a man enters a shop with the sign "John's Coffee"; after Loutherbourg and Chapman; published etched state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London
Description:
Title from dedication below image. and Companion print to: Perspective view of the inside of the Royal Exchange in London.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs August 12, 1788, & sold by Mr. Chapman at Mr. Christie's, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
City of London (England), England, London, and London.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806,, Royal Exchange (London, England),, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Stock exchanges, Streets, Stores & shops, City & town life, People associated with manual labor, Carriages & coaches, and Signs (Notices)
"View inside Vauxhall Gardens; the Grand Walk on the left looking down towards the obelisk; the orchestra to the right and pavillions on either side; elegantly dressed figures in gardens."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View at the entrance into Vauxhall
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Entick, J. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766., and Window mounted to 17 x 22 cm; matted to 28 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Edward and Charles Dilly
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),, England, and London.
"View of the grand front of the theatre; a lion and unicorn to left and right of the pedament at top, with a sculpture of armour and weapons in the centre, pillasters across middle of building and an iron balcony above ground floor; in foreground to right a carriage and a sedan chair, to the left street traders and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., "Possibly an illustration from 'The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam', 1773-1822"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catlalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3116., and Tipped in at page 640 (leaf numbered '89' 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., and London,
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Buildings, Theaters, Facades, Carriages & coaches, Sedan chairs, Street vendors, and Dogs