"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
"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
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764?]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini, Duke of Nivernois; seen bust-length to right, eyes to front, wearing sash, lace collar, and his hair powdered and tied with ribbon; after Ramsay."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: A. Ramsay pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit., Proof state before letters added; for later states with lettering, see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 140, pages 885-886., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1872,1012.4085., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Mounted on page 244 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):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,
"Portraits of George II, Queen Caroline, Prince Frederick, Princesses Anne, Amelia, Caroline, Prince William, Princesses Mary and Louise, all busts in ovals arranged in three rows of three."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above images., The portraits are mainly copied from prints by Simon; see Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, and Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6993.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Eliz. Bakewell, print & map seller, against Birchin Lane, Cornhill, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760,, Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737,, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751,, Anne, Princess, consort of William IV, Prince of Orange, 1709-1759,, Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786,, Caroline, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1713-1757,, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765,, Mary, Princess of Hesse, 1723-1772,, and Louise, Queen Consort of Frederick V, King of Denmark, 1724-1751,
Title from item., Publication date probably after 1764, when Carington Bowles removed his business from Cornhil. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p.25-26, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Families -- Children: toddlers -- Dress: peasant dress, ca. 1771 -- Dishes: bowls -- Cutlery: spoons -- Food: pease-soup .
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
Title from item., Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Lace making: tambour -- Pets: King Charles' spaniel -- Birds -- Birdcages -- Furniture: tabouret -- Chinoiserie., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, map & printseller at no. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait, standing three-quarter length in profile to left, head turned to look towards the viewer, wearing ermine-trimmed ceremonial robes with a lacy cravat and short white wig, left hand on arm of a chair behind him, right leg advanced, holding crown in right hand, in front of him; after Hudson."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable John Earl of Egmont Viscount Perceval of Kanturk, Baron Lovell & Holland of Enmore, Baron Perceval of Burton
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 473 x 332.
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
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.
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.
