Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 158 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Legg" written in brown ink on verso.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 161 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Becket" written in brown ink on verso.
"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
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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].
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; on the left, Venus seated on ground; two putti surrounding her, one of whom holding a torch; on the right, five putti in front of a water fountain: one playing the trumpet, one playing the lute, three singing; in an oval with a banner at bottom; after Cipriani; cut in an oval."--British Museuum online catalogue
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Title from banner below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.269., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 6 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
An invitation to an 1853 event, the Roscoe Centenary Festival, sponsored by the city of Liverpool in honor of William Roscoe, Liverpool banker, poet, writer and collector, among the founders of the Liverpool Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design and Whig MP for Liverpool; also first president of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Opponent of the slave trade, he published several pamphlets on the subject and was elected on an anti-slavery platform. After retiring in 1796, he studied botany and opened the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1802. The invitation shows classical figures representing his many gifts, surrounding a ship, representing his business interests
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Title from text in image., Text below image left: Pvblic Philharmonic Hall., Text below image right: Liverpool, March VIII, MDCCCLIII., and Ms. note: Thomas Sansom [Montee?].
"Diana on the right, seated on a stone under a tree, receiving a ribbon lettered "Francisca Xaviera Nieto y Aguilar" from three women who stand on the left; in an oval within a rectangle; after Stothard; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Date and state from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.387., and On page numbered 11 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Lady Ailesbury's invitation card designed by Bentley: with decorated border, three candles in candlesticks on the left and a teapot on the right. With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany
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Lady Ailesbury's compts. to and desires the favour ..., Lady Ailesbury's compliments to and desires the favour ..., and Lady Ailesbury's invitation card
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Title from etched text., Formerly mounted on leaf 14 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., The Lewis Walpole Library: With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany., and With ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Designed by Mr. Bentley.