Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.00.00.28
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man lying in bed looks upward while Father Time with an hour-glass in his left hand and a scythe in his right one approaches the bed. In the background is a breakfront filled with books. A Bible lies on a chair next to the bed and there are several ...
Description:
Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, v. xvi, p. 180
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.00.00.29
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in a dressing gown and nightcap, seated on a sofa, leans away in terror from a skeleton-like figure of Death aiming his spear at him. Next to him lies an overturned table with broken decanter and wine glass on the floor. His gouty left foot is s...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
A young woman sits on the edge of a bed hung with curtains, as an older woman points accusingly at her, an angry look on her face and a pair of men's breeches in her hand. The young woman has a look of shame and sorrow on her face as she holds a cloth...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Mothers, Trousers, Women, and Young adults
A group of men sit at a table inside a large cottage or an inn. One of them, comfortably sprawled in a chair, is playing a violin. A man on the opposite side of the table is singing. To the left of the fiddler, another man is singing from a music shee...
Alternative Title:
Flemish concert
Publisher:
Printed for R. Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
A woman and two men, dressed in the style of 17th-century Dutch paintings, are gathered in a room. The woman, sitting on the left, her left foot resting on a large wooden box protruding from under a table, plays the lute. One of her companions leans o...
An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Inside a delapidated-looking cottage a couple sits by the hearth smoking pipes. Two small children play by an open window and a baby nearby sits in a baby chair. The interior is strewn with various household utensils, the most prominent being a yarn-w...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
A young couple is sitting at a round table. The girl, smiling at her companion, is pointing to a mousetrap with a mouse in it. The young man, holding a cat under his left arm, reciprocates with a gesture of self-assurance
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
A young woman is fast asleep in a cushioned armchair while a cat crouches dangerously over the top edge of a shelf that serves as a bird feeder for her dove. On the wall in the background hangs a landscape painting in an ornate frame and a tasselled c...
Alternative Title:
Pretty miss asleep
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:
771.03.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
"Portrait after Nathan Drake, half length, in stonework frame, arched at top, directed slighlty to left, facing and looking towards right, long grey hair, light coloured coat and cape, double vest, hands on still, right one over books and papers, hold...
Alternative Title:
Mr. Thomas Gent
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 21st 1771 by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
"Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British M...
"Miss Berridge; whole-length, sitting on clouds, directed, facing and looking to the left, holding a small vase in her right hand, into which a swooping eagle is about to place its beak, cover of vase in her left hand; state with title and publication...
Alternative Title:
Miss Berridge
Description:
Title engraved below image. Imprint in scratch letters twice, earlier statement barely visible above later statement.
Publisher:
Published accord. to act of Parliament by S. Hooper no 25 Ludgate Hill
"Three-quarter length standing with head turned three-quarter to left, wearing flowered dress, pearls in her hair and a long plait looped over her right shoulder, holding a crayon in her right hand and an open sketchbook in her left, which rests on a ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer map & printseller, No. 53, in Fleet Street
"Portrait standing three-quarter length to right leaning on rock, her right hand to her cheek, head turned to face left over her shoulder, with basket of flowers to right; with robe draped over her right shoulder, and scarf in her hair; landscape seen...
Description:
Title from Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1st Octr. 1771 for H. Parker No. 82 Cornhill, S. Hooper No. 25 Ludgate Hill, W. Shropshire, New Bond Street, & T. Watson in Broad Street
"Portrait of Catherine Hunter after Edward Francis Cunningham; seated at table, half-length in three quarter profile to right, arms crossed, wearing pearls in her hair and fur-trimmed cloak."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Publisher:
Published July 22nd, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"Portrait of Baroness Mary Nolcken, or Mary Le Maistre, seated to front resting on table with her hands clasped in her lap, almost three-quarter length, and facing left, her hair elaborately done with long plait falling over her right shoulder."--Brit...
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 21st, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
