"A handsome young man sells pot-plants to a pretty young woman who stands on a door-step (left); a little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers. He has a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass; in it are small shrubs in large pots; two pots of flowering plants are on the ground. The background is formed by part of a palatial house having a portico raised on an arcade."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number. and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, City & town life, Girls, Plants, Row houses, Street vendors, and Women
Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprietors' abolitionist sympathies
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date based on style of dress., Handbill with engraved text and engraved vignettes., Sheet trimmed, leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
"A hopeful young girl wearing pattens, leaning confidently on the counter of a general shop, saying 'If you please Mr Tomkins to give my mother change for sixpence, and she will send you the sixpence next week.', the shop owner leaning down to her with a perplexed expression, his glasses on top of his head, a sign on the counter advertising 'Hunts match[...]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., With: What a treat!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
Subject (Topic):
Counters, Stores & shops, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Girls
Volume 2, page 32. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling girl stands facing the viewer, bending forward slighly to lift the bottom of her dress and show off her shoes
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 32 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1791, by Mno. Bovi, No. 81, Great Titchfield Street
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Printed bill from William Grundy for instruction at his Parr Hall boarding academy for young ladies near St. Helens in what was then Lancashire, with itemized list subjects, lessons, goods and services offered., and Completed in manuscript and addressed to "Mrs. Gordon," the bill is dated "Dec. 18th, 1821" and covers "6 months' board and education of Miss Gordon ..." It was receipted and signed by "Wm. Grundy" on 8 January 1822, with a footnote that the school "will re-open on Jany. 22nd." For further information, consult library staff.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 January 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a soldier, who stands to right, leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hat and looking curiously at her; in a roundel; unlettered proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Girl offering beer to a soldier
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton f., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publish'd 23d Jany. 1783., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 27 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.6 x 27.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on similar print published by W. Dickenson 1 April 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted with Kinnaird 87K(d): Head of Diana
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 29. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"'Three French girls before a castle gate', standing in the line with books under their arms, the girl at left with her hands under her apron, looking at the ground, the central figure with a half-open fan and a posy of flowers tucked into her dress and the third with flowers on her bonnet, at right a figure on horseback enters the gate, a guard beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three girls before Medieval gate
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 29 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.9 x 28.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th March 1780 by Js. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 29. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"'Three French girls before a castle gate', standing in the line with books under their arms, the girl at left with her hands under her apron, looking at the ground, the central figure with a half-open fan and a posy of flowers tucked into her dress and the third with flowers on her bonnet, at right a figure on horseback enters the gate, a guard beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three girls before Medieval gate
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 29 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 29.2 x 28.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd 4th March 1780 by Js. Bretherton, New Bond Street
