"Subscribers ticket to the Handel Centenary Commemoration held in Westminster Abbey in 1784; a woman seated on a lion, gesturing towards an obelisk behind her, that is inscribed 'Handel'; a cherbu by her side placing a garland on a pedestal; in oval with ribbion inscribed 'The dead shall live the living die', and on scroll between horns and pipes, 'May 29 / Messiah / 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed within design, resulting in loss of imprint., and On page numbered 29 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Anonymous. By William Combe., The Diabo-lady has separate title-page with same imprint., In this edition, there is a comma after "diaboliad" in the title and the "D" of "London" is above the "LI" of "Dublin" in the imprint., With a half-title., and Signatures: A-F⁸ [G]1.
Satirical portrait of William Pickett, Lord Mayor of London for 1789; three-quarter length, seated; wearing the ceremonial gown and with a City of London sword hanging in the background; within a border composed of plates, cups, saucers, mugs, kettles, and a chamber pot, with two bears in the corners; a fire extinguisher and a string of "India crackers" hang below the border
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Price only one shilling with a suitable frame included., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publishd. according to act of Parliament, June 1st, 1789, by E. Harding
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pickett, William
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Robes, Swords, Containers, Firecrackers, and Fire extinguishers
A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
Drawings showing the floor plan and views of the walls on which were hung paintings and against which statues and other artwork were placed. The second drawing is titled "Plan of rooms that contains [sic] the statues & the pictures" in ink above, and the fourth drawing is titled "View of one end of the great room design'd by Inigo Jones" in ink below. The first drawing depicts a large painting by Van Dyck on the wall at a different end the great room, described in the printed text as "a landskip [sic] with dogs, and in the clouds are three angels ...".
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., One of the four drawings with horizontal orientation., and Bound by Horace Walpole in his copy of: Gambarini, C. Description of the Earl of Pembroke's pictures. Westminster : A. Campbell, 1731.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Wiltshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 and Wilton House (England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, and Interiors
