Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., John Singleton Copley's oil painting on which the engraving was based, was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 and is now held at the Tate Gallery, London., and Mounted on linen, bordered in silk; rolled with silk ties.
Publisher:
Published by John Singleton Copley, R.A., Decr. 26, 1791, and sold at Parr's Print Warehouse, No. 52 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Copley, John Singleton, 1737-1815., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
"Interior with an MP standing on the left, addressing the house of Commons, the speaker sitting in the centre, the gallery crowded with people looking down and two men in the foreground, standing beside the benches and looking down the hall; a lists of the speakers from 1259 to 1747 on either side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Masking tape on edges on verso.
Publisher:
J. Pine
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and Westminster Palace (London, England)
"Group portrait of three artists, Carlini on the left, mallet in right hand, looking towards the viewer, Bartolozzi sitting leaning on portfolio of prints, right hand resting on the edge holding an engraving tool, looking towards Cipriani, who sits in profile to left, looking towards the audience, holding a palette and lifting a brush in right hand to the easel behind his friends, which bears a canvas with a cartoon of Fame; after Rigaud."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title in scratched letters below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.593., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet, 444x 550 mm; three pieces of tape on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Carlini, Agostino, approximately 1718-1790,, Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815,, and Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785,
"Interior of the Fleet Prison with the House of Commons committee appointed to enquire into the state of gaols (after Hogarth's painting of c.1729 in the National Portrait Gallery); to left, James Oglethorpe, Chairman of the Committee, confronts the warden of the Fleet, Thomas Bambridge; in the foreground, a prisoner (probably Jacob Mendes da Sola) kneels in shackles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1803 by G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785, and Bambridge, Thomas, active 1729.