Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXVIII and No. XXIX, of a Mrs. P- and George Neville, Lord Abergavenny
Alternative Title:
Lord A- and Lord Abergavenny
Description:
Titles from text below image. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 457.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
"A middle-aged woman shown head and shoulders directed to right, looking slightly downwards, wearing a plain veil and simple gown which conceals her neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 68 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Cooper, Samuel, 1609-1672., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of a Mrs. Sw-n and Richard Rigby, known as Bloomsbury Dick
Alternative Title:
Bloomsbury Dick
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 289., In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from dates of publisher's operation at the address given in imprint. See I. Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 113., Copy with variant title. Cf. No. 5261 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Satirized musette -- Animals: boar -- Furniture: music stand -- Wooden legs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Print00197
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., and 1 print : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 237 x 303 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., Watermark: L.V.G., and Some ink wash added as additional shading to figures' clothing.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Myself
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below title: As I walk'd by my-self, I talk'd to my-self, and thus my-self said to me: Look to thy-self and take care of thy-self; for nobody cares for thee ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5265 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Young men.
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Myself
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below title: As I walk'd by my-self, I talk'd to my-self, and thus my-self said to me: Look to thy-self and take care of thy-self; for nobody cares for thee ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5265 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Young men., First of two plates on leaf 48., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three-quarter length portrait slightly caricatured, of 'Cervetto', or Giacomo Bassevi the 'cellist (1680-1783), noted for his large nose, playing the 'cello. He sits looking downwards and to the right. An open book of music, from which he is not reading, is on a stand behind his left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and First of three plates on leaf 103.
