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1. John Wilkes, Esqr. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, 1764.
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait, three-quarter length seated three-quarter to left, at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney', a letter addressed 'To Huy. Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 94 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small contemporary annotation in ink, perhaps monogrammatic initials, above printmaker's signature.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797,
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Wilkes, Esqr. [graphic]
2. [Mrs. Collier] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, James, 1750-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1764 and 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Lady Christiana Collier; seated half-length directed and with head in profile to left, looking at dead bird on table; wearing loose robe over light dress with sash and flower at breast."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- "Passer mortuus est meae puellae, passer delitae meae puellae; quem plus illa oculis suis amabat. Catullus."--Quotation beneath image., Title from previous owner in pencil below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6397., Place of publication taken from end of publication statement., Mounted on leaf numbered 38 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 map & printseller, at no. 53, Fleet Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mrs. Collier] [graphic]
3. Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman sitting directed to left in a wicker-backed chair in a panelled room, wearing a gown with frills at the elbows and a mob-cap, sewing; with a ribbon box and pin cushion on a small table to left; after Heilmann."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Domestic amusement and Fair seamstress
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Boudoirs, Chairs, Interiors, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]
4. Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.10+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman seated in a caned armchair with cushions, directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work bag hanging a fire screen in front of it, to the right; an urn on the mantel piece with a mirror on the wall, curtains behind on right and left; after Heilmann
- Alternative Title:
- Domestic amusement and Lovely spinner
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Chairs, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, Purses, Sewing equipment & supplies, Spinning, Spinning apparatus, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]
5. [William Legge Dartmouth] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Spilsbury, John, 1739-1769, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 31, 1764.
- Call Number:
- Portraits D226 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of William Legge after Reynolds (Mannings 1107); as a boy, half-length in an oval frame, head turned and looking left, wearing Van Dyke costume."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., "2 s."--Price at bottom right of print., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Ownership stamp on verso: FRH monogram.
- Publisher:
- Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Spilsbury, engraver, & map & printseller, in Russell Court, Covent Garden
- Subject (Name):
- Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 1731-1801,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [William Legge Dartmouth] [graphic]
6. Playing at put [graphic]
- Creator:
- Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men sit on benches at a low table playing cards (putt) as a third person looks on.
- Alternative Title:
- Playing at putt
- Description:
- Title etched below image., C. Corbutt is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Copy of: The game of putt?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Playing at put [graphic]
7. Mrs. Turner of Clints in Yorkshire [graphic]
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764 or 1765]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1778); three-quarter length standing to front, her left arm across her waist, her right hand holding up her loose dress, her hair falling over her right shoulder; curtain behind at left and landscape beyond at right; lettered state after address and price erased."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3405., Mounted on leaf numbered 29 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:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Turner of Clints in Yorkshire [graphic]
8. The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- Portraits T753G no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Honourable Colonel Townshend
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Artist and printmaker from earlier states of the plate described in Smith, Russell, and the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Later state, with imprint of John Bowles & Son burnished from plate (the remnants of which are faintly visible beneath title)., Date of publication based on date assigned to the earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., For the earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3402. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 298. This earlier state is described as no. 176a (state 2) in: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 221. An unspecified earlier state of this plate is also briefly mentioned in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 176, page 899., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Honble. Colonel Townshend [graphic].
9. The Right Honourable George Lord Viscot. Townshend Lord Lieut. General, & General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland, &c. &c. / [graphic]
- Creator:
- McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- Portraits T753G no. 4+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled 'A Bill Intituled An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces &c'; lettered state after tree-trunk in arms altered to coronet, inscription to Governor in Ireland and publisher to Sayer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Right Honourable George Lord Viscount Townshend
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3401., Townshend coat of arms engraved in lower margin., and Mounted on board to 51 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807,
- Subject (Topic):
- Aristocracy (Social class) and Devices (Heraldry)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Right Honourable George Lord Viscot. Townshend Lord Lieut. General, & General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland, &c. &c. / [graphic]