"Portrait of Elizabeth Howard, three-quarter length, sitting, hair in curls, wearing loose, low dress, leaning on a pedestal and holding flowers; in the background, two fluted columns with Cupids and bird at the base; landscape in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0808.1105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 37 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Alex Browne at [the] Blew Ballcony in Little Queen Street
Subject (Name):
Northumberland, Elizabeth Percy, Countess of, 1623?-1705,
"A broadside on the Popish Plot; with an engraving after Francis Barlow showing three lines of a Whig mock procession ending with the Pope being burnt in effigy before Temple Bar; with engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress with explanatory description of the event in four columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption engraved above image., "The explanation" in letterpress below image: You must first know the occasion of this mock procession to have been that the pope ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted. For further information contact library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Nathaniel Ponder, at the Peacock near the Stocks Mark[e]t, Jonathan Wilkins, at the Star in Cheapside, next Mercers Chappel; and Samuel Lee, at the Feathers in Lumbard-Street, near the Post-Office
Subject (Name):
Clement X, Pope, 1590-1676., Wakeman, George, Sir, active 1668-1685., Howard, Philip Thomas, 1629-1694., and Godfrey, Edmund Berry, Sir, 1621-1678.
"Portrait of Richard Tompson, half-length in an oval, long hair, wearing neckcloth and robe."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Richard Tompson
Description:
Title from later state., First state of the plate, before sitter's name added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.175., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 152 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., and Sitter's name and occupation written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: Thompson, printseller.
