"Portrait seen seated half-length to right within oval frame, her arms folded, eyes to front, wearing dress decorated with ribbons and cap on her full, high hair."--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.: 1902,1011.4957., 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.
"Portrait of Martha Ray seated three-quarter length to right holding music manuscript, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book, on slab at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 48 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 25th, 1779 by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, & at No. 52, Strand and Chez les Freres Torre, marchands d'estampes
"Portrait of Martha Ray seated three-quarter length to right holding music manuscript, her head in three-quarter profile, her right elbow leaning on book, on slab at left; proof before letters, but with scratched inscription."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 47 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff., and "Open letter proof" written in pencil below print, on mounting page.
Publisher:
Published May 24th, 1779, by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street Oxford Street, & at No. 52, Strand
A young man sits on a bench under a tree as he holds the hand of a pretty young maid. A piece of paper in her pocket has the words "Let us Polly do so to". At her side (right) a little boy plays gentle with a nest filled with eggs. A magpie sits on the edge of a basket filled with eggs. The young man points left to a pair of love birds on the wall behind, a dove cote in the yard of the house beyond. From behind the tree an old woman looks at the scene with anger, her first clenched. The cat on the fence beside her looks ready to pounce
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '392'., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Boys, Cats, Couples, Dovecotes, Magpies, and Nests
Title from item., Plate numbered '393'., and Temporary local subject terms: Building exteriors: school for young ladies -- Costume pattens -- White Conduit House -- Domestic service: footboy -- Bathing pool -- Trades: cherry seller with fruit displayed on sticks -- Female costume: school girls.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Botching tailor cutting his cloth to cover a button
Description:
Title from item., Artist and publisher probably fictitious. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by James Tomlinson, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788., and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799.
An old ballad singer offers his ballad sheets to a pretty young mother and her son as they walk across a bridge over the Thames. In the distance the sun's rays illuminate the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Imprint erased?, Window mounted to 41 x 30 cm., Note in an unidentified hand at bottom of mounting sheet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A woman standing examining a display of slip ballads that the seller, a "pinner-up", who is seated on a stool, has hung along a wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., After a painting by Henry Walton., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '410' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Music: song-sheets -- Male costume: song-sheet seller -- Female costume: maid-servant -- Trades: song-sheet seller -- Brooms -- Broadsides: King Charles' 12 good rules., Watermark., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Stools, Street vendors, and Songs