Drawing of an urn from which grows ivy with clusters of purple berries climbing a stone wall behind; decorates the right margin of the text block on the title page
Drawing of a decorative border of flowers executed on a privately printed title page to an extra-illustrated volume. Arranged in a vertical column, four circular designs formed from twisted branches
Drawing of cherry blossoms and cherries on the privately printed title page to an extra-illustrated volume. The pink and white flowers, green leaves, and red fruits extend above and to the right of the printed text on the page
A drawing of five birds in a decorative scrolling pattern on the privately printed title page of an extra-illustrated volume; it fills the space along the right margin and extends over the top of the text block; the top two image show two birds in fli...
Multi-title collection including [Thomas Gray] and 1 other(s).
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portrait of Thomas Gray standing, nearly three-quarter length, facing the viewer. He holds a letter in his right hand, which rests on his left wrist, the whole framed in masonry, arched at the top
Watercolor drawing of a palette, with colored paints in a line across the top, five paint brushes emerging from the thumb hole on the right side and a garland of holly leaves and berries wraps around three sides of the palette. Intended as a vignette ...
"Interior view of the north transept of Westminster Abbey; a group of figures stand with a guide admiring the monuments; a couple stand in left foreground, the man gesturing upwards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the new orchestra stand in Vauxhall Gardens at night; lights illuminating front, elegantly dressed figures dancing or watching orchestra in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), and London (England)
Half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate in profile to the right; with receding wavy hair, wearing a plain coat and frilled cravat; with a large tree behind him on the left anda a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right. ...
Description:
Title written in ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England),
Depicts a semi-nude seated female figure holding a caduceus before whom dance 3 putti, while 2 putti in the air above approach bearing a basket and grape vine. Within an oval border of olive and oak leaves resting on a pedestal containing the text
Alternative Title:
Ball at the Mansion House : April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Honorable John Wilkes, Lord Mayor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., London (England), and London
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797. and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Manners and customs, Caduceus, Children dancing, Cornucopias, and Social life and customs
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1754]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, almost half-length in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, his arms at his sides, wearing an unbuttoned coat over an embroidered waistcoat, with a chin-length white wig, in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1754]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, almost half-length in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, his arms at his sides, wearing an unbuttoned coat over an embroidered waistcoat, with a chin-length white wig, in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
"Bust in a feigned oval, three-quarter to left, wearing mayorial robes with fur-lined cloak and chain of office, and a white cravat, looking out of the corner of his eye towards the viewer; after Pine."--British Museum online catalogue
"Interior of the room; men doing business at desks along the right side of the room; the the central space crowded with a variety of men from around the world, a woman selling goods from a basket walks among them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1st July 1808 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Customhouses, Interiors, Crowds, and Customs inspections
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[approximately 1693]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole-length, reclining on ground with one elbow leaning on a rock; long, loose hair, and wearing dress and robe; small waterfall and pool with rocks in the foreground; tree and edge of building in the background; landscape with trees in th...
"Three-quarter length portrait of a military officer facing front, looking to right. His right elbow resting on masonry; a stone fortification on right with cannon. He wears a ribbon and star, military uniform, sword and cocked hat, with powdered hair...
Alternative Title:
Honourable Sir William Howe
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 10th Novr. 1777, by John Morris, Rathbone Place
Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1692]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, three-quarter length, sitting on a grassy bank, hair in a long plait, wearing loose dress; parrot in tree on right; rocks behind; trees and water in background on left."--British Museum online catalogue
A view of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham as seen from the south lawn, with the Thames River and Richmond in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Housing
A view of Horace Walpole's home Strawberry Hill in Twickenham as seen from the south lawn, with the Thames River and Richmond in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Housing
"View of the interior of the church; large Corinthian columns supporting upper gallery; the pews filled for the service."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. Stephen Walbrook and Saint Stephen Walbrook
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Saint Stephen Walbrook (Church : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Interiors, Religious services, Pews, and Columns
"Portrait of Sir Henry Vane, bust in profile to right but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; an axe in lower right."--British Museum online catalogue
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1788]
Call Number:
Portraits W218A no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole-length standing three-quarter to right, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on a table to left, holding a document in left hand, wearing ornate embroidered robe over his suit, a sash from left shoulder, lace cravat and long wi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Half length portrait, inclined left, looking front; in long curled wig, plain collar, doublet with slashed sleeves, badge on ribbon over right shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1, 1802, by the Revd. W. Coxe, London
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1621-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1765]
Call Number:
Portraits H257 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, standing three-quarter length facing front, left hand on hip, holding architectural plan at his side in right, looking away to left, towards a window from which the light streams diagonally."--British Museum online catalogue
"Interior of the Pantheon on Oxford Street, during a masquerade; the hall crowded with figures in costume dancing and making merry; a band plays on the stage; other figures on balconies to left and right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Plate [152] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition to Hume's 'History of England'; Cromwell standing at centre, handing the speaker's mace to a soldier at left, the astonished speaker behind the desk at right, his arm being taken by another guard."--British Museum onl...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [153] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, resting on a rock with book and dramatic mask beside and tiger with staff lying in the foreground, storm clouds with forks of lightning overhead."--Br...
Alternative Title:
O. Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, and Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, died 1658, aged 59
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1740 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Margaret Woffington standing whole-length to left holding flowers in her left hand, eyes to front, wearing lace cap, pearl earrings and low dress."--British Museum online catalogue
"Elizabeth Woodcock shown as found when rescued, seated three-quarter length to front, surrounded by snow, with head turned slightly to look to left, hands touching; in frame, with tablet below, and border of vertical and horizontal lines."--British M...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published May 29th, 1799, republished by J. Hatt, Peas Hill, July 29th, 1849, proprietor of the Views of Cambridge &c.
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; s...
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; s...
Description:
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image.
Publisher:
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
A collage with a wash drawing depicting native people of Mexico on a hillside with the sky above, mounted in the center of which is an engraving of a view of a walled city surrounded by a river, the arrangement giving the impression that the two drawn...
Smith, J. (John), active approximately 1750-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
[approximately 1761]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 4 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length directed to right, wearing tiara and low-necked dress with a decorated belt, wrapping her daughter in a cloak trimmed in ermine, the child curled with her head on her hands in her mother's lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maria Countess of Waldegrave and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura, 1760-1816,
"Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, head and shoulders to right, looking to front, wearing long wig, dark coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill, in an oval, surrounded by emblems."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Murray and Satirical illustration of "Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second"
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
J. Murray
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
"Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, head and shoulders to right, looking to front, wearing long wig, dark coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill, in an oval, surrounded by emblems."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Murray and Satirical illustration of "Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second"
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
J. Murray
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 57. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes, drawn at the time of his second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. He is shown full-length and seated, holding the Staff of Maintenance mounted with a vessel similar to the Cap of Liberty against his shoulder. C...
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 2
Collection Title:
Plate 57. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes, drawn at the time of his second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. He is shown full-length and seated, holding the Staff of Maintenance mounted with a vessel similar to the Cap of Liberty against his shoulder. C...
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Sotheby 77 Box 100
Collection Title:
Plate 57. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes, drawn at the time of his second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. He is shown full-length and seated, holding the Staff of Maintenance mounted with a vessel similar to the Cap of Liberty against his shoulder. C...
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Hogarth 763.05.16.06.2+ Box 200
Collection Title:
Plate 57. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes, drawn at the time of his second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. He is shown full-length and seated, holding the Staff of Maintenance mounted with a vessel similar to the Cap of Liberty against his shoulder. C...
"Portrait of John Carteret Grenville, 1st Earl Grenville, half-length to left, glancing towards the viewer, wearing long curly wig, robes and chain of the Garter, and lace cravat; in oval frame, covered with curtain, on pedestal with allegorical scene...
Alternative Title:
John Lord Carteret, Viscount and Baron Carteret of Hawnes, Earl Granville &c.
Description:
Title engraved within oval frame surrounding portrait.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 12, 1757 by T. Major, engraver to his Majesty and to His R.H. the Prince of Wales, at the Golden Head in Chandos Street, London
