Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & ...
Description:
Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
Mounted on 34 leaves, a collection of 197 hand-written notes addressed to "the door keeper of the House of Lords" or specifically to Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, requesting that the bearer of the ticket or the person named be admitted to the House of Lords in...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London :...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Bust portrait of a good-looking lady, directed to the left. In the gauze projection which covers her bust are four small dogs. Her hair is not extravagantly dressed, and is decorated with three ostrich feathers, which suggest that she may be intended...
Alternative Title:
Fashionable bosom
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. the 2d fo [sic] Aprl. 1786 by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre, London
"Bill Richmond, the black pugilist, stands directed to the right, left leg advanced, fists raised. He is stripped to the waist, wearing a spotted handkerchief for belt, with neat breeches, stockings, and tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Richmond, Bill, 1763-1829, and Richmond, Bill, 1763-1829.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Boxers (Sports), and British
"A broadside on Matthew Skeggs, a publican who became famous for miming music-making with a broomstick while making matching vocal sounds; with a round mezzotint after a painting by Thomas King, showing Skeggs facing towards the right, next to the por...
Alternative Title:
Introduction. Each buck & jolly fellow has heard of Skegginello
Description:
Engraved broadside, in verse in two columns.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall, at Hogarth's Head, in Fleet Street
"Dr. Wood walks meditatively in profile to the left, holding his gown to his waist. He has short white hair or wig, a white eyebrow, wears a mortar-board, bands over a shirt-frill, and knee-breeches, showing a neat leg."--British Museum online catalog...
Full-length portrait in profile of the Duke of Norfolk looking left and holding his hat in his right hand and a gathering of sheets of paper in his left
Description:
Title engraved below image, with ducal crown above title.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1796, by R. Dighton, No. 12 Charing Cross
