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11. Miss Gravile [graphic]
- Creator:
- Corbutt, Charles, 1746-1777, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Frances Greville and her brother after Reynolds (Mannings 443); as Psyche, standing three-quarter length to left under a tree, head turned to face front, holding up vase in both hands, her brother William (?) as Cupid stands beside her to left, grasping the scarf flowing around them with his right hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1903,1115.14., Print under Purcell in J.C. Smith., Mounted on leaf numbered 28 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Greville, Frances, 1730?-1789,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Gravile [graphic]
12. [Maria, Countess of Waldegrave] [graphic]
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; proof before title and publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Early (proof?) state with artist and printmaker names present but before title and publication line added; this state, undescribed by Smith, represents the third state according to Russell., Date of publication based on later state with the imprint statement "Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 139 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Maria, Countess of Waldegrave] [graphic]
13. [James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762, Knight of the Garter] [graphic].
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1808); half-length in profile to left, wearing star and sash with short wig; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: J. Reynolds pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Proof before letters., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 140 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Waldegrave, James Waldegrave, Earl, 1715-1763, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [James Earl of Waldegrave, 1762, Knight of the Garter] [graphic].
14. Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic]
- Creator:
- Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1762 and 1766]
- Call Number:
- Portraits G41 no. 5+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Charles Corbutt was a pseudonym used by Richard Purcell., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1321., Text below title: Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique., and For a larger version by Purcell, published by Sayer and Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ee,5.144. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 31, page 1016.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic]
15. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend [graphic]
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1762?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits T753He no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (?); standing almost half-length to right beside a bust, eyes to front, hat under his left arm and his hand inside his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Probably after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0328.40., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Arms and three lines of biographical information engraved below title: Died in the 26th year of his age (June 24th, 1762) of the wounds which he received in the battle fought that day at Wilhelmstahl ..., Mounted on board to 51 x 41 cm., and Artist's name "Sir J. Reynolds" added in pencil beneath lower left corner of image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Townshend, Henry, 1737-1762,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lieutenant Colonel Henry Townshend [graphic]