Illustration that appears on "Title-page to 'An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Esq.' by Boschereccio (London: George Kearsley, 1778) In a landscape; portrait head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, on ground at foot of a tree; to left, Thalia, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, seated on rocks, looking at the medallion and weeping; to left, shadow of Foote being led to a boat by Mercury; in foreground, a head buried in ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For full impression of title page, Cf. British Museum registration no. 1897,1231.189., and On page numbered 25 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; Venus Anadyomene; naked, seated on a conch in the centre, holding a crown in her right hand; four putti inside the conch; three putti flying in the sky holding a large drapery above her; a banner at bottom; after Cipriani; state after title removed and printer's name added."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.284., and On leaf numbered 8 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Alboin and Rosmunda; the queen on the right, refusing to drink wine from a cup made from her father's skull, which the king holds on the left; three female courtiers, two soldiers, two child servants watching them; gothic windows in background; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alboin et Rosmunda
Description:
Title from image., Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Alboin et Rosmunda., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 52 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Dido, supported on a pyre by a woman wearing a veil and diadem, fainting with grief, a dagger at her side, an old woman standing behind to left and weeping women gathered on the right; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Three lines of text below title: Omnis et una delapsus calor, atq: in ventos vita recessit. Virg. IV, 705. The struggling soul was loos'd & life dissolv'd in air. Dryden., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 43 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Apollo; standing, facing front, holding a lyre in his left hand, raising his right hand; a banner above him, another beneath; in an oval; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Year from modern handwritten note in lower right corner., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 2 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Title from image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Date from The Fitzwilliam Museum copy, Cf. accession no. V.3-35., and On page numbered 38 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Poetry sitting on a cloud, looking up, quill pen in her right hand towards her cheek, papers in her left on the lap, Cupid sitting on the right, facing front, music instruments, ornaments and foliages below; state before publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within design., and On page numbered 38 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Apollo; standing, facing front, holding a lyre in his left hand, raising his right hand; a banner above him, another beneath; in an oval; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Borghi, Free Masons Hall
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. S,6.127., For later impression with added title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 3 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf numbered 2 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; a young woman seated on a pedestal, touching a lyre on a table with her left hand, holding a quill pen in her right, turned and looking towards a putto who stands behind her; on the right, Cupid seated on floor, holding an arrow, covering his face with hands; in an oval; after Cipriani; state before artists' names, title, printer's name."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 7 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A stout man in profile with a long wig (the number '4' etched over his head; below "fig.2 [illegible]), points with his left hand, holding his hat in the other, on the left side; a man seen from behind on the right wears a sash diagonally and a long wig, and holds a paddle against his right shoulder with his left arm extended to the side slightly; another quick line sketch of the second figure is given below and to the left of it.
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth but more likely by George Townshend., Caption below image: From the original drawing in the collection of the Earl of Exeter., and Ms. notes in ink below identifying each figure: On the left is Lord Melcombe and on the right, Lord Winchelsea.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 22, 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762 and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
