"View looking down Fenchurch Street; the hall on the right with pediment at top above four Ionic pillasters, shop signs jutting out from buildings on the left, carts and carriages in street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü de la Halle des Marchands de Fer dans Fenchurch Street
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably a later state, with slight alteration to the plate numbering format. For a state with "No. 6" in upper right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 11875,0710.4909., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., "The design copied from a print published at mid-century by John Bowles"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., and Leaf 25 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (London, England)
"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
Volume 1, page 55. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from note in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 55 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.
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
A large portfolio assembled by Horace Walpole from various lots he acquired at the Vertue sale 16 March 1757 including rare prints and drawings, among which are Holbein drawings. In addition to the portfolio, is a small volume of eight portrait drawings taken from this collection and later acquired separately
Alternative Title:
Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others
Description:
Title from item. Title from Hazen: Portfolio of original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views &c by Vertue and others., Two volumes and one solander box containing a drawing housed separately., and Some of these, about fifty, are now mounted and rebound in red morocco, with Horace Walpole's manuscript title-page preserved. Bookplate 1. Press-mark D.3.13 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763; moved to the Round Tower. Bookplate of William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave.
"A fantastic scene takes place in a cobbled street between two buildings: a large house (left) with the words 'London / Coffee / House' in huge letters above the ground, first, and second floors respectively; and (right) 'The London Tea House' on a façade above the shop-front of the 'Genuine Tea Company' [at 23 Ludgate Hill]. From a centre first-floor window of the latter steps a winged figure resembling Fame, blowing a trumpet from which issue the words 'No Adulteration'. A Chinese, resembling the figures on the trade-cards of tea-dealers, who seems to have walked out of the shop, holds a firebrand inscribed 'Pro Bono Publico' to an open tea-chest inscribed 'Chinese Gunpowder', the contents of which are exploding in flashes inscribed 'Genuine Tea' and terminating in black clouds, so as to tilt over a huge kettle inscribed 'Steam Engine' (which fills the greater part of the design and against which also Fame directs her blast), from which rise clouds of steam surrounding many little men who look out of the (lidless) kettle. The spout is inscribed 'Exchequer' and from it men (tea-dealers) are being poured head first into a china tea-pot (left) on which is a Chinese pattern: a tree with two branches, one inscribed 'To the Ks Bench', the other (in reversed characters) 'To Newgate'. One exclaims: "There was No Tea in the composition!!!!! yet they fined me £2320!!!" Another: "It's never too late to mend." Round the tea-pot lie bundles inscribed respectively: 'Clover & Ash'; 'Sloe leaves'; 'Verdigrease'; 'Potatoe Parings'; 'Dutch Pink'; 'Elder leaves'. Behind the spout is the word 'Bohea'. Other tea-dealers are falling from the kettle; one says: ""I wish to retrieve my Character" / "and I think that it is fair we / should All be Tarred" / with the same Mop.!!" vide report of the Meeting." Another: "We have been togathe [sic] & we'll go togather." In the centre of the tea-dealers emerging from the kettle is one represented by a chair with human head and arms, showing he is their Chairman (one Bedwells) and that a meeting of tea-dealers is represented: he holds out a paper: 'Tea paper Resolved--00000 Resolved--00000'. He says: "Gentlen, Unless we can make our Tea, a little better, depend upon it, we shall all go to pot! I am quite affected by it already-- but I hope I shall go to Bed-well." Beside him is a canister inscribed 'Ludgate Hill Gas'; on this sits a bird, chirping up at him. One of his audience says: "Aye, aye, we shall all be Dished"; another asks: "who calls, me a-ber-y." A man answers: ""I, said the Sparrow" vide Cock Robin." A man with an axe for head (? Axford): "I wish to Ax, if anybody can afford to sell cheaper?" The other speakers appear also to indicate their names: "Sharps the word"; "I'll be Secretary, for I'm the Man for a Brown Study"; "who talks about sloes & black Berries"; "Come down with your Dust: I'm Treasurer"; "This is a bad Day for us--O, it will play the devil with us this Winter"; "Let's Marshall ourselves against this new Tea Compy"; "I lament this exposure, it makes me as melancholy as a Gibbs [the s scored through] Cat." Some look from the right of the kettle towards the new shop: one (? Shaw) says: "who cares a Button?--'Shaw!"; others: "Let's throw as much dirt at Concern [sic] as we can"; "Take care you don't splash your self"; "That's right! [? Wright] pelt away, never mind dirtying ourselves." Other speeches rising in the steam are: "Mr Chair man I consider this a Second Gunpowder plot it is evidently so as they opened on the 5th of November"; "Suppose we meet in Holborn"; "Although the Names of certain persons have been suppressed in the public prints there is no doubt but the Commissioners of Excise will give facility to the exposure of every delinquent coming under thier notice--see report of the Meeting." A little boy stands below looking up at the kettle; he says: "My eye! how the scum bubbles up to the top!" On the ground (right) sits a street-seller with a large bundle of papers under her arm inscribed 'Resolutions of the T. Trade--&c &c.' Beside her are other papers: 'Resolutions, &c.' and 'Tea Paper'. She holds out a straw, saying, "Who'll buy my ha'porth of Straw?-- for my part, if I could get good Tea I should not care a straw who I bought it of!" Customers enter the shop of the 'Genuine Tea Company'. One lady on the pavement meets another, saying, "I am going to mak a purchase of this New tea Company." Her friend answers: "I have just been we may now I think ask each other to a Cup of Tea!" A grotesque dandy, in short loose trousers over high boots, inspects the shop through a glass, saying, "Excellent! establishment pon honor!!", while an old woman in a red cloak hurries in at the door, saying, "Now for a Good Cup of Tea once more." A dog of dachshund type with 'Tim' on its collar barks at this group."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tea trade in hot water! and Pretty kettle of fish!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text above image: "The nefarious & abominable practice of mixing teas with various cheap ingredients of the most poisonous qualities, has already been sufficiently exposed; "!!!--" because their practices are calculated to produce disease, if not death" - vide Observer, Novr. 8th, 1818., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 14th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Later state of a plate published by Henry Overton. Cf. Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15258., Date of publication inferred from publisher's statement; Laurie & Whittle took over the business of Robert Sayer in 1794. See British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with complete loss of imprint from bottom edge and partial loss of plate number from upper right. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression at the Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15259., Plate numbered "83" in upper right corner., Folded to 24.5 x 38.3 cm., and Leaf 58 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London
"Exterior view of the Royal Exchange; looking down a busy street with carriages, carts and pedestrians, St Paul's Cathedral in the distance to the left, the prominent entrance of the Royal Exchange with tower to right; in right foreground a man enters a shop with the sign "John's Coffee"; after Loutherbourg and Chapman; published etched state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of the outside of the Royal Exchange in London
Description:
Title from dedication below image. and Companion print to: Perspective view of the inside of the Royal Exchange in London.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs August 12, 1788, & sold by Mr. Chapman at Mr. Christie's, Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
City of London (England), England, London, and London.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806,, Royal Exchange (London, England),, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Stock exchanges, Streets, Stores & shops, City & town life, People associated with manual labor, Carriages & coaches, and Signs (Notices)
"View of the grand front of the theatre; a lion and unicorn to left and right of the pedament at top, with a sculpture of armour and weapons in the centre, pillasters across middle of building and an iron balcony above ground floor; in foreground to right a carriage and a sedan chair, to the left street traders and other figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nouvelle façade, vers Bridges Street, de la principale entrée du Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., "Possibly an illustration from 'The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam', 1773-1822"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catlalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3116., and Tipped in at page 640 (leaf numbered '89' 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., and London,
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Buildings, Theaters, Facades, Carriages & coaches, Sedan chairs, Street vendors, and Dogs