"Millbank, looking westwards towards Chelsea; a man leads an ass laden with vegetables along a road beside the river between trees about to cross a stream in the right foreground, a woman with a mop on her shoulder follows him; two men fish from a boat; on the far side of the river, in Lambeth, a windmill; in the distance the recently opened Battersea Bridge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist attribution from British Museum online catalogue., Publication date based on that of earlier state., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate, of a print published in 1789 by R. Sayer. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner., and Companion print: A visit to the grandfather.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description:
Title from item., Plate reworked from the earlier state which also published by Sayer under the same title and on the same day., Companion print: A visit to the grandfather., and Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a frilled cravat tied around her neck; after Philips; open letter state before artists' names added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title scratched below image, in open letters., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a frilled cravat tied around her neck; after Philips; open letter state before artists' names added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title scratched below image, in open letters., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., 1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 25.7 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 20.8 cm., and Printed in sepia ink on wove paper.
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a frilled cravat tied around her neck; after Philips; open letter state before artists' names added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title scratched below image, in open letters., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: Painted by R. Philps [that is, Phelps] ; engraved by J. Young mezzotint engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., and Printed on paper watermarked "1783".
Volume 1, after page 182. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with alterations to imprint and addition of plate number. For an earlier state lacking plate number and with the imprint "London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map, chart & printsellers & globe-makers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs, Decr. 5th, 1783", see Colonial Williamsburg online collection, object number: 1973-381., Plate numbered "161" beneath lower left corner of image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 182 (leaf numbered '223' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs
Volume 1, opposite page 182. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably a later state, with imprint altered and plate number added, of a print published in 1783 by R. Sayer and J. Bennett. For the early state of a print from the same series, see Colonial Williamsburg online collection, object number: 1973-381., Plate numbered "160" beneath lower left corner of image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 182 (leaf numbered '222' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street
