A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections
Description:
Title from text in upper left corner of image. and Mounted to 16 x 26.5 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1826.
Call Number:
826.00.00.92
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the remains of the Roman Temple of Serapis, also known as The Serapeum, just north of Pozzuoli, Italy
Description:
Title from text below image. and Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire.
"View of the Grosvenor House to the right behind a fence, a couple and little girl in the foreground to the left, the lady with her back to the viewer while the other two are walking to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Ninth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "9" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 56 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Walthamstow (England)
Subject (Name):
Grosvenor family and Grosvenor House (Walthamstow, England),
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.116
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Interior view of Neptune's Grotto, the stalactite cave near Alghero on Sardinia that was discovered by fisherman in the eighteenth century and became a popular tourist site
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the initials of Mary Anne Theresa Whitby., and Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire.
Print shows a building at Harrow with four figures in the foreground and five in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster. London : Printed for and published by R. Ackermann ..., MDCCCXVI [1816]., Joseph Constantine Stadler was a German painter and engraver who worked in London., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., Mounted opposite page 3 (leaf numbered '31' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Imperfect; imprint statement partially worn away from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Harrow School
"View looking across a lawn towards the house; a pond on the left with a dog drinking and ducks swimming, an elegantly dressed family with a dog and small girl in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Second in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 47 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Highbury (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Social & civic facilities, Dogs, Lakes & ponds, and Ducks
Interior view of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey, looking down the nave towards a wall with two arched windows. The building is mostly intact but without a roof; a broken column is seen in the center foreground. Figures with torches stand beneath the windows and additional figures are visible through an arched passageway on the right. The moon in the sky above is illuminated when the print is viewed in front of a strong light
Description:
Title, imprint, and series title printed on label affixed to mount, below image. and Date of publication inferred from activity dates of publishers Reeves & Sons and William Morgan. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside; W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; and W. Wilson, Jun., 16, King William Street, City
Volume 1, page 69. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Milton's cottage at Chalfont
Description:
Title from ink annotation on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand., Statement of responsibility and date written beneath title on verso, in an unidentified hand., and Mounted on page 69 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Geographic):
Chalfont St. Giles (England)
Subject (Name):
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted above on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
"View of the house with two men on horseback in the right foreground with their dog approaching to the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Kendal House, the property of Sir James Smith, near Uxbridge, Middlesex
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eighth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner., Mounted to 23 x 38 cm., and Leaf 55 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London