"In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: The same size as the picture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 138 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
"In a landscape, Venus, naked, lying on a drapery; behind her, a tree; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of etched Walpole arms bearing the motto "Fari quae sentiat.", Text below title: The same size as the picture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 173 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 24 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 36.4 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1785, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside, London
Title from manuscript annotation below image., Printmaker and publication information from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
"Two young women holding an infant between them, looking down at it affectionately, the one on the right turned three-quarters from the viewer; in an oval; after Lady Spencer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum., Early state lacking title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3320., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs April 4th, 1785, by Sus. Vivares, No. 13 Great Newport Street
Volume 2, page 43. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 43 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"Explosion in the Duke of Atholl, at anchor in the Madras Road, with group of sailors and women in a boat rowing away from the disaster; in the background a view of the harbour of Madras."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state with lettering
Alternative Title:
Duke of Atholl, East Indiaman and Duke of Athole, East Indiaman
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication information from later state. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13496., Proof state before letters; print later issued with the imprint: Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1785, by R. Wilkinson, No 58 Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 12 of 12.
