"An eloping couple drive headlong in a coach and four (right to left) pursued by an angry father on a galloping horse who shakes his whip at them. He is followed by three grooms on horseback. The man leans from the off window of the coach, the lady fr...
"An eloping couple drive headlong in a coach and four (right to left) pursued by an angry father on a galloping horse who shakes his whip at them. He is followed by three grooms on horseback. The man leans from the off window of the coach, the lady fr...
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 30th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bott...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th Augt. 1785 by T. Smith, No. 6 Wardour Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Military officers, Flutes, Hugging, and Kissing
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 5 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 136): Tom and a wealthy old woman are being married in the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone. The bride has only one eye and growths on her forehead; the IHS ...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 5 and Youth to reimburse his squander'd Gold, ...
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"Design in an oval. half length portrait of Pitt in the House of Commons, standing at the table on which are books and two documents inscribed 'Parliamentary Reform' and 'Commutation Act'. Three shadowy seated figures watch him: Fox (left) says, "Oh t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18, 1785, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), ho...
