Full-length portrait of Rigby facing left, his hat held in his extended right hand, his left hand gripping his sword
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 3 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Rigby.
"Portrait of Richard Tompson, half-length in an oval, long hair, wearing neckcloth and robe."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Richard Tompson
Description:
Title from later state., First state of the plate, before sitter's name added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.175., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 152 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and Sitter's name and occupation written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: Thompson, printseller.
Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel
Alternative Title:
Some of the principal inhabitants of the moon
Description:
Title and imprint from Paulson., Text continues : as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brouhgt to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse exactly engraved from the objects, whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c., Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 56, Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: The same copy, the size of the plate somewhat diminished that is might suit S.I.'s book afterwards published., and On page 301 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Molton & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
Two fashionably dressed women flee a charging bull; one woman lies face down in the grass of Hyde Park as gentlemen and the bull's owner try to subdue the animal with sticks
Description:
Title and imprint supplied in a contemporary hand on mounting below image., Signed Lepagelet in image who was active in Paris, so ms. note seems questionable., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1738]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3636 no. 5+ (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Self-portrait of Jonathan Richardson the elder, head and shoulders, wearing wig and neckcloth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text below image: Me, as you find my soul, neglect or love, and show by virtue virtue you approve. R. 1738., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in pencil in a 20th century hand: Taken from an extra-illustrated Boswell's "Johnson"., Window mounted on wove paper to 29 x 23 cm., and Annotation in ink in Horace Walpole's hand, on a 2.5 x 7.6 cm piece of laid paper, window mounted below portrait: John Richardson, painter, by himself.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1741 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Ghismonda weeping over the heart of Guiscardo; a young woman leaning inwards from left reting her elbows on a table, chin on left hand, weeping, a platter containing a heart in front of her; after Correggio; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from curator., Date, artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Ms. note in pencil on print beneath plate mark: Correggio. McArdell., and On page 224 in volume 3.
Six sketches of heads; the one on the right in the second row with the caption "hearing void of attention".
Description:
Title from Dobson and ms. annotation on Steevens's impression., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 167., cf. Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations, v.1 p. 144., Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand at top of print: No. 2., and On page 230 in volume 3.
Three sketches of a head in profile. The image on the far left is circled
Description:
Title from ms. annotation on Steevens's impression., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 167., and Sheet trimmed to: 15.8 x 23.6 cm.
Three sketches of a head in profile. The image on the far left is circled
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 44., and With ms. note on recto: Hogarth fecit 1758.
