Title from item., Plate engraved for: Hempel, Charles William. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller., and For further information, consult library staff.
Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding a dog
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item., With the imprint statement: London Pubd, as the Act directs 1st. March 1796 by Colnaghi & Co. (late Torres) No. 127 Pall Mall., and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
A portrait, bust, of George Simon Harcourt while still Viscount, nearly in profile looking to the right and wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; in a mock oval frame
Description:
Title from item., With plate maker's name stamped on verso: Whittow & Large. Partners Benjamin Whittow and Thomas Large were located in Shoe Lane., This copper plate was originally executed by V. Green in 1772 for an edition published by him. The plate has been altered for a second edition published by Shropshire., and For published prints from this plate see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, p. 437.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 2, 1776 by W. Shropshire, New Bond Street
Cooper, Richard, approximately 1730-1820, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1810]
Call Number:
810.04.01.01 Object Room B:D
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Damer, with sculptor's tools at the base
Alternative Title:
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Description:
Title from item., Artist identified as Angelica Kauffmann in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Plate engraved for the frontispiece to La Belle assemblée, April 1810., and With plate maker's name stamped on verso: G. Harris No. 31 Shoe Lane, London.
A three-quarter length portrait of Horace Walpole, oval shape, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Below, a view of his estate Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title engraved in italics below images., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals engraved below image of the estate., and With plate maker's name stamped on verso: Whittow N. 43 Shoe Lane, Holborn, London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Same image as the one that appears as Plate 6 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows two women standing before a knife grinder and his cart equiped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Description:
Title from item. and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
Two designs on the same plate. Upper design: A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. Lower design: A young woman (right) lies full length on a sofa; next her in the opposite corner of the sofa is an elderly man in regimentals, also asleep. The feet of both rest on a chair (left). A cat sleeps on the floor
Alternative Title:
Nap in town
Description:
Lettered beneath each image with title; lettering within image on upper design: "Rowlandson. 1785."; below lower design: "London Pubd by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho".
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
Title from item., Plate engraved for: Hempel, Charles William. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller., and For further information, consult library staff.
The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep. The clerk below the pulpit eyes the bosom of the young woman sleeping in the lower right, fan in one hand and a book open to "... of Matrimony" about to slip from her fingers
Description:
Title from caption below image., One of only a handful of Hogarth's original plates that have survived, this plate shows the work of the artist over a period of years, from its creation in 1736 with the evidence of later changes made in 1762 as a more mature artist., "Price one shilling.", Copper plate for print described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 2285., and For a description of the prints from this copper plate see R. Paulson's: Hogarth's graphic works, no. 140.
