An engraved trade card advertising "Bank Eating-House" in the City of London
Description:
Title from item., Date based on death date of Mr. Malkins (i.e., 1793 in the National Archives at Kew)., Card trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings for the 75th, 116th, 136th, and 141st days in Westminster Hall, each signed by (presumably) the chamberlain for the day -- Chedworth, Somerset, Darlington, Dorchester. Two are printed in black ink, another in blue, and the fourth in green ink; they all carry seals. Three contain comments in a contemporary hand about the day's proceedings praising Sir Robert Dallas's defense, commenting on the fact of Mr. Pitt's reply, and evaluating Edmund Burke's remarks on his second day of speeches. The ticket for the 116th day contains extensive notes on the verso. The ticket of 136th mentions Mr. Fox's reply to Hasting's counsel. Three of the tickets have been torn in the corner, possibly when the bearer entered the hall?
Description:
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident of Murshidabad; appointed to the Calcutta council in 1761; a member of the Madras council in 1769; made governor of Bengal in 1772; and appointed the first Governor-General of India in 1773. However, Hastings resigned in 1784, and, returning to England, was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke. He was impeached for corruption in 1787 but was acquitted in 1795., In English., Engraved admission tickets with mss. notations., With Hasting's coat of arms in the center with text around image: For the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Peter Burrell Dy. Great Chamberlain., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804., Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824., Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Somerset, Charles Henry, Lord, 1767-1831.
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., and Mounted on page 77 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.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Mounted on page 100 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 9.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Plate [41] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the palace dungeon at night, where King John's men are gathered with torches, preparing to murder Prince Arthur, who kneels in the centre, pleading with Hubert, who stands on the left holding a dagger and seizing the prince's wrist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [41] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Robt. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall and Printed by J. Shoveller
Plate [28] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page to Chapter V of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Rufus lying on the ground in a forest with an arrow in his chest, his horse standing over him, the archer fleeing at right and stags at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Death of William Rufus
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [28] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [25] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for Chapter IV; five men bowing before the king, one pointing to the Doomsday book, which is held by another, and gesturing as he addresses William I, who sits to right, another holding a cross; a descriptive plaque below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doomsday Book presented to William the First
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [25] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who again has opened his caracature [sic] room to which he has added several hundred old and new subjects. Admitance [sic] 1sg., Pricing information below title: To those who give them away 1£ 11s 6d pr hundred plain and 3£ 3s 0d in colours., Price in lower right corner: 6d plain, 1s colored., and Temporary local subject terms: French uniforms: sansculottes -- Battles: allusion to French victory at Jemappes, 6 Nov. 1792 -- Symbols: tree of Liberty as a twig -- Food: roast beef -- Pudding -- Crucifixes as support for dagger and noose -- Executions: hangings -- Torture -- Starvation -- Satiety-- Food: frog -- Rats -- Pets: cats -- Fireplaces -- Songs: allusion to "O the Roast Beef of Old England" -- Allusion to "God Save the King" -- Allusion to "Rule Britannia" -- Toasts: "The King and Constitution forever" -- Bible -- Dishes: pitchers -- Farming: plowing -- Bird cages -- Assignats -- Beer.
Publisher:
Pub. Janry. 3, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Portrait of George Dempster of Dunnichen, profile to the right, with powdered hair en queue, wearing coat, waistcoat and medal on a ribbon, in an oval
Alternative Title:
George Dempster Esquire
Description:
Title from text below image., Above image: "European magazine.", Plate from September 1793 issue of European magazine., and After the medallion by J. Tassie.
"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'Morning Chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'Mr Deputy Grizzle' and 'Mr Snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership of Bowles and Carver. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers., Copy after a mezzotint of the same title published by Carington Bowles in 1782., Verses below imprint begin: Sam Soapsuds was scraping the Deputys chin; when Suet and Snip, with Old Crispin came in ..., and Watermark in lower part of sheet, countermark I V in upper part.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
View from the Thames of Lacy House, formerly in the County of Middlesex, with boats on the river in the foreground. Built in 1750 for James Lacy, co-owner of the Drury Lane Theatre, the mansion was later home to the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Angus, W. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales... [London] : Published by W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings, Islington, Feby 1, 1787[-97]., "Pl. XXXVI"--Upper right corner., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm; mounted below is the page of descriptive letterpress text that accompanied the print in the volume., and Mounted opposite page 518 (leaf numbered '117' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1st, 1793, by W. Angus, No. 4 Gwynne's Buildings, Islington
Subject (Name):
Lacy, James, 1696-1774 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
The interior of a jeweller's shop, indicated only by three necklaces festooned on the wall and by a door giving on to the street. A lady sits between two men; one (left) points insinuatingly to a box of ear-rings which he holds, the other applies a boring instrument to her left ear. To her left, a dog barks as he looks up at her startled face. Behind, a weeping schoolboy with a bag of books is being birched by a young woman. Through the door are seen a Highlander blowing bagpipes and a milkmaid screaming for custom
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and One of a series of 'Drolls.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Octr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bagpipes, Dairy workers, Earrings, Jewelers, Jewelry stores, Necklaces, School children, Women, and Young adults
Plate [106] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; interior with Lady Jane Grey standing at right, looking demurely to right as Northumberland and another man kneel at left, pleading with her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [106] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Subject (Name):
Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554, and Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of, 1502-1553,
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
"Portrait of an innkeeper known as 'Mother Louse'; an old woman with pointed chin, smiling, almost three-quarter length, directed to left, wearing bonnet, tall conical hat, ruff and apron, a jug in her left hand by her side, a tankard in her right, held out; landscape in the distance beyond, at left, her inn, lettered 'Louse Hall', a famous establishment outside the city of Oxford; fanciful coat of arms below image: three lice surmounted by a tankard, motto on banner underneath, 'Three lice passant'. Reversed copy after Loggan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Wonderful magazine, v. 1 (1793), page 303., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Costume: women's costume, 17th-century -- Buildings: ale house -- Dishes: mugs -- Flagons -- Mottoes: Three lice passant -- Satirical coats of arms., and Mounted to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Coats of arms
"Portrait of Dr Richard Price after West (Staley 687); seated almost three-quarter length to the left, holding a paper at his lap and his glasses in his right hand, a volume of 'Butler's Analogy' beside him at right, a bookcase behind at left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Text in image on paper in sitter's hand: "Dear Sir...Philadelphia...1786."
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793 & sold by T. Holloway, Newington Street, Middlesex, near London, E. Harding in Pall Mall, and R. Wilkinson in Cornhill
A preacher stands behind his pulpit shouting and waving his arms at the crowd who stands before him. Several in the crowd are vendors who care their wares in baskets or pots balanced on their heads. A young, well-dressed man (right) holds a handkerchief to his nose as he recoils from one of the vendors; he holds a game bad in his hand (?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publication date from: Carlton House magazine., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from: The Carlton House magazine, v.2?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Preachers, Pulpits, Street vendors, and Clothing & dress
Plate [4] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; primitive landscape with jugate heads of Arthur and Guinevere(?) inscribed 'the Britons' on a stone amidst a pile of weaponry, smoke behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image; the final letter "s" is mostly obscured by the fletching of the depicted arrows., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [4] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"View of the Monument, on Fish Street Hill; carts and carriages on street; a farmer herding cows and sheep in left foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Collone de Londres elevé pour une perpetuelle resouvenance de lincendre generalle de cette ville en 1666
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on form of printseller's name in imprint: Bowles and Carver partnership began in 1793. See British Museum online catalogue., Later reissue of a print first published in 1751 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Window mounted to 36 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Wilkinson in Cornhill & Bowles & Carver, No. 69, St. Pauls Church Yard
The scene from Acts, Chapter 12, verse 17 in which an angel leads Peter through the door from his prison while the Roman soldier sleeps at the foot of the steps outside
Description:
Title engraved below image., "The Acts Chap. 12 Verse 17.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. July 6, 1793, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall, & J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Peter, Saint, -304.
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Biblical events, Sleeping, Soldiers, and Roman
A copy in the same direction after the engraving by Hogarth titled 'The Company of Undertakers'. Sixteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez
Description:
Title etched below image., "Wm. Hogarth del." erased from this impression; surmised from earlier state in the British Museum. See Registration number: 1935,0522.1.40., Numbered "193" in lower left corner., Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians., Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ...", Copy of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2308., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, map & printsellers, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., One of a series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Madam, ther's [sic] not a man of the profession in Europe that can cut a corn ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Physicians: corn doctors -- Chiropodists -- Knives -- Female costume, 1793 -- Furniture: ladderback chairs -- Furnishings: wall panelling -- Women -- Children: girls.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20th 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Plate [35] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; the assasination of Thomas Becket, wrestled to his knees by a gang of four knights, one raising a bludgeon above him, his mitre and staff fallen at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [35] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Plate [6] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page to Chapter I.II.III of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England', with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Roman soldiers jumping from a boat into the water, watched by a crowd on the bank at left, crowds of soldiers behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [6] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of a series of 'Drolls.', One line of text below image: Indeed, Mr. Fribble, I am not to be done in this manner ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: shops -- Milliner's shop -- Trades: milliner -- Yardsticks., and Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"A scene in the small courtyard of a London inn, at which a stage-coach has just arrived. A stout lady is getting out of the coach, larger in scale than the other figures; the coachman is taking game, &c, from the box. A short stout 'cit' yawns and stretches. Another man looks sourly at his watch; packages lie on the ground, including a hamper directed to 'Alderman Guttle'. A smiling waiter (right) invites the company to enter the inn. Through the folding gates of the yard is seen a street with a distant church."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue no. 6758., Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Variant of no. 6758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Clothing & dress
An Arawak native slits the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. Captain Stedman, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
Description:
Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 2d, 1793 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Name):
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797,
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Hunting, and Snakes
Plate [2] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of George surrounded by Muses in vignette above text and "Dedication sheet to George III; five allegorical female figures, three standing to left, one casting incense on a fire, before a plaque with a bust portrait of the king, while a triton sits in front of it, another female holding a scroll raises a crown above the king's head and another female sits writing history to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dedication to the King
Description:
Title from first line of text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : engraving on wove paper; sheet 46.4 x 31.9 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: 1801 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [2] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of George surrounded by Muses in vignette above text and "Dedication sheet to George III; five allegorical female figures, three standing to left, one casting incense on a fire, before a plaque with a bust portrait of the king, while a triton sits in front of it, another female holding a scroll raises a crown above the king's head and another female sits writing history to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dedication to the King
Description:
Title from first line of text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Plate [2] in a volume bound to 50 cm., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate; imprint statement is lightly printed and barely legible.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
"View of the Nave of St. Paul's, with the royal procession flanked by three lines of guards on either side, in front of the congregation on tiered stands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal procession in St. Paul's on St. George's Day 1789
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Processions: thanksgiving procession, St. George's Day 1789 -- Beefeaters., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1793, by B.B. Evans, Poultry, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Interiors, Naves, Honor guards, and Spectators
A large cotton handkerchief printed with red ink (madder); the drop head title is printed on a ribbon suspended between two trumpets and is divided after the word 'valentine' by a portrait of Pope. The central cartouche shows three scenes of courtship and is encircled by a knotted ribbon, every other loop in a heart-shape, and contains the lines beginning: I liked you best for true love it is a precious pleasure of a value more than rich mens treasure ... The lines of a love song telling the story of the courtship and marriage of Johnny and Mary are printed in the ribbons flowing on either side of the title ribbon. Along the bottom are two more scenes -- one of the betrothal, the other the wedding -- with two love birds in a small cartouche dividing the two scenes
Alternative Title:
14th Febry, 14th February, and Fourteenth February
Description:
Title from item., 'N's printed backwards in title., Date of printing based on date embroidered on The Lewis Walpole Library copy., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Marriage, and Valentines
Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife; the pot of oil on the floor in front of the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a volume with a print protruding from its pages and no title (in the original it is identified as "Analysis of Beauty").
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Date from other prints by Dent in the British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
Subject (Topic):
Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
Plate [24] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William I; half length to right; in royal robes and crown; bow and arrows across chest and long sword in hand; in frame decorated with further arrows and a bow, two swords at bottom, a large leaf with two berries in each corner, and an eagle at top; fictitious; illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of William the Conquerer
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [24] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery
