"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 675); head and shoulders to front, facing and eyes to right, wearing plain coat and frill; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Charles James Fox
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Bound in opposite page 210 (leaf numbered '23' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published April 2, 1812, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1815]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, half-length, standing slightly to right, with head turned to look to left; wearing ornate gown of Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and lace cravat; curtain behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue and Half-length portrait of English statesman William Wyndham Grenville, facing slightly left
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 324 (leaf numbered '147' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834.
Half-length portrait of British statesman Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth, seated, facing front and "Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, over half-length, seated to front, with hands folded, looking ahead; wearing dark double-breasted coat fastened with one button, light waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; curtain behind; octagonal design, bordered by three lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ryall, H.T. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. London : G. Virtue, [1836-46?]., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 616 (leaf numbered '51' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1836 by the proprietor H.T. Ryall, 3 Euston Sqr., also by J. Fraser, 215 Regent St. and F.G. Moon, Threadneedle St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844.
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
Half-length portrait of English dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, facing left and "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); half-length directed to and facing the left, looking slightly to the front, his coat fastened by two buttons; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published July 1, 1825, by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
Description:
Caption title., Woodcut of the dwarf dated 1755. See Sheila O'Connell's 'Popular Print in England' (British Museum 1999, cat.4.41) where she shows that the portrait was lifted from an etching of Jacob Powell made a year or two earlier (see British Museum cat.4.40)., Woodcut signed lower left with a italic 'g'?, and Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Kight-errant, or, The distressed Queen, Knight-errant, and Distressed Queen
Description:
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. The songs are in celebration of Queen Caroline’s return to England in 1820. The two woodcuts are a portrait of Alderman Wood in an oval border together with a crude woodcut of a lady., Printer's statement following title in first column., In verse., First line of "The knight-errant, or, The distressed Queen": When the Queen was detain'd on th[e] Gallian shore ..., First line of "Queen Caroline lov'd in our island": Queen Caroline's come ..., Bodleian Ballads online, V4292, and Edge mounted on upper half of sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843,
Caption title., With: Scott, John. An address to Great Britain, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen., Broadside consisting of two seemingly separate publications, the second being ‘An Address to Great Britain, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen’ by John Scott. At the head of the sheet is a large woodcut portrait of Queen Caroline with the first paragraph setting out a robust attack on her accusers and a defence of her good character: ‘The cause of the Queen is now indeed placed in a triumphant attitude. The question is no longer whether her Majesty has forfeited her character as a princess and a woman, but it is now whether those who have attempted to blacken her character by the most filthy imputation shall receive the merited reward of perjury and infamy’., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Imperfect, trimmed to 47.5 x 17.5 cm with loss printer's statement., and Laid on to modern card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Carrall, printer, Walmgate, York
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Head-and-shoulders self-portrait of English painter Thomas Gainsborough, facing right and "Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, after his self-portrait; half length, to the right, head turned to the front, his hair lightly curled over ears, wearing jacket fastened at waist and cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 686 (leaf numbered '129' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 27, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, and Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
"Portrait of Warren Hastings, as an elderly man; half-length seated directed slightly to right, elbows on the arms of his chair, holding a paper in his right hand, spectacles in the other, looking down, wearing a double-breasted coat, pale waistcoat and white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Bound in opposite page 317 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 9, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
India and India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.