Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression at the Yale Center for British Art., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., A French copy in reverse of a print by Thomas Bowles published in 1753. See British Museum online catalogue., Text centered below image, possibly series numbering: 27e. Vue d'Optique Representant., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description based on imperfect impression: imprint has been mostly erased from sheet and is illegible., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Date based on time period (1746-1755) when Canaletto worked in England and produced the original painting., Text below English title: N.B. This building is esteem'd the most perfect and finest piece of Gothic architecture now remaining in Europe., Text below French title: Cet edifice est regardé comme le plus beau monument d'architecture gothique qui soit en Europe., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: La morgue, or, bone-house. Where the bodies of those who are found dead, from accident, their own hands, or, others' ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm. Watermark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1ts [sic] Iany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.01.03 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in an inn in profile to left, holding a gourd and a bowl against her sides, looking ahead, wearing a mob-cap and check apron, with a chair to left, casement window to right and three pictures on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
A possibly female figure wearing male attire writing a letter at a table before a window in a study or library. Books fill shelves in the rear while two others lie open on the table, one title Le Code de Cithere
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Title from item., Imperfect; cropped within plate mark., Pencilled on verso: "pour Rʹetif avant lettre...", i.e. possibly an illustration from a work of Restif de La Bretonne., and Mounted to 27 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1746]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
Alternative Title:
Madame du Deffand's cats and S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator., Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils., Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 64 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 and Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770.
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
-- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk at the husband's elbow is a book with a spine label "L'École des vieillards" and at his feet he has thrown his quill pen and the account book with the label "Dépense".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Series title and number from caption above image., Printmaker's name letterd in image on the base of the harp., This plate was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 12 June 1824. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 2003,0630.14., and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.