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-winder in the center of the room
Description:
Title from item. 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 Fleet Street, as the act directs
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1267); almost half-length to right within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing dress with fringes, bow, pearls and sash, pearls in her hair; published state after title altered to 'Countess'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 31 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"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 line engraved a second time, with date, over the first."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Berridge
Description:
Title engraved below image. Imprint in scratch letters twice, earlier statement barely visible above later statement., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the caption below image, see also British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6582., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 12 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:
Published accord. to act of Parliament by S. Hooper no 25 Ludgate Hill
His Royal Highness William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, &c. and William Henry, Duke of Glocester, &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., After a painting by Hugh Douglas Hamilton. For a larger plate after the same painting, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 496., Date of publication based on that of the larger plate after the same painting, which was published by Robert Sayer in 1771. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.885., Cf. Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, no. 16, page 249., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Mounted on page 51 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Henry, Prince, Duke of Gloucester, 1743-1805,
"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 pedestal to right; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,0610.3., Mounted on leaf numbered 18 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, No. 53, in Fleet Street
"A woman seen head and shoulders in an oval, looking down to right wearing a lace cap and shawl tied in the front with a ribbon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Price 1s. 6d" printed in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 42 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:
1771 Printed for Wm. Darling engraver in Great Newport Street, July 1
"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, holding open his 'History of the Town of Rippon.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Thomas Gent
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 416 x 321 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 21st 1771 by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
"The heroine standing three-quarter length, holding in her left hand an urn with a long chain bound round her wrist, behind her a monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,10.92., Mounted on leaf numbered 47 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.
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication date inferred from another print by Brookshaw: The Flemish ballad singer., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Skulls -- Mortars and pestles -- Lighting: candlelight -- Bats -- Dog's head -- Books -- Glass bottles.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
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 curtain
Alternative Title:
Pretty miss asleep
Description:
Title from item. 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 Fleet Street, as the act directs
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1833,0610.33., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 16 (leaf numbered '70' 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:
Publish'd June [the] 4th, 1771, accorg. to act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill
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
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 sheet. A man in an apron, perhaps the innkeeper, is about to put a large glass with a drink on the table. Behind him on a bench stands a large jug. In the background is a large bed with open curtains
Alternative Title:
Flemish concert
Publisher:
Printed for R. Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
publish'd according to act of Parlimt. March 17th, 1771.
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait bust in a partial oval frame, turned slightly to the right, lower part of frame only visible, and looking towards the viewer; wearing a dark robe, bands and shoulder-length powdered wig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Attributed to John Dixon in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Dedication engraved beneath title: From an original painting in the possession of Sr. John Parnell, to whom this plate is dedicated by his very humble servant, Thomas Davies., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 129 (leaf numbered '177' 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:
Thomas Davies?
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, and Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1677); Lady Spencer standing three-quarter length to right, looking to front, embracing her daughter, who stands whole-length to front on table at right, with dog; wearing dress with wide lace sleeves and band in her hair, her daughter in plain dress and bonnet; curtain behind and trees beyond."--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.: 1902,1011.3578., Mounted on leaf numbered 20 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.
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 supported on a stool; a crutch leans against the sofa. In the background stands a bookcase
Description:
Title from item., Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '14' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: For the wagers [sic] of sin is death., A companion print: The good man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Death -- Books -- Furniture: bookcases -- Sofa -- Diseases: gout -- Literature: quotation from Bible, Romans, vi.23.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourt lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: So white, intent alone on means to thrive we all to overreach our neighbours strive ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: cards -- Playing cards -- Fear -- Lighting: candlelight -- Domestic service: servants -- Ghosts: pretend ghost -- Pets -- Fireplaces.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
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 on the kilim-covered table with his left arm and sings from a book he holds open. The other man, draped in a cloak, stands in the background. Next to him is a bed with drawn curtains. A box and a candlestick stand on the table. On the floor in front of the table lies a playing card
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 books on a table at the foot of the bed
Description:
Artist and printmaker identified in Thieme-Becker, v. xvi, p. 180, Plate numbered '13' in lower left corner., One line of quote below title: Let me die the death of the righteous & let my last end be like his., A companion print: The bad man at the hour of death., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Father Time -- Death -- Books: Bible -- Furniture: bookcases -- Canopy bed -- Literature: quotation from Bible, xxiii.10.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, N. 53 Fleet Street
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., Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: To one alone I cannot constant be, because the life I love is to be free ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Letters: billets doux -- Furniture: couch.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
