"Portrait of Catherine Hunter after Edward Francis Cunningham; seated at table, half-length in three quarter profile to right, arms crossed, wearing pearls in her hair and fur-trimmed cloak."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on leaf numbered 45 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published July 22nd, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Portrait of William Beckford, from his monument in the Guildhall; whole length, standing, looking to the left, wearing fur trimmed robes and garter chain; seated by his feet to the left is a female personification of the City of London weeping, and on the right the figure of Trade & Commerce shown slouching with head bowed; the statue stands on a large pedestal with long inscription addressed "Most Gracious Sovereign".
Description:
Title from text etched on the pedestal in image., Dedication etched at bottom of plate, above imprint: Humbly inscribed by permission to the Right Honble. Brass Crosby Esqr. Lord Mayor, the Worshipfull Court of Alderman, the Sheriffs & the Common Councilmen of the City of London by their much obliged humble servt. Jno. Smith., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., and William Beckford: Sugar merchant with estates in Jamaica. Member of Parliament; Lord Mayor of London; supporter of Wilkes. Father of William Thomas Beckford, the author of "Vathek", to whom he left £1,000,000.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Title from item., Four lines of verse below image: Thus ancient Britons, gen'rous, bold & free, untaught at Court to bend the supple knee ..., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 70., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: aldermen's civic gown -- Addresses from the Welsh counties -- Aldermen -- Interiors: Tower of London -- Unjust imprisonments -- Allusion to the injustice of the House of Commons -- Lord Mayors of London -- Richard Oliver, 1735-1784, alderman -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771.
Publisher:
publisher not identitife
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Leaf 12. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the Pont Neuf in Paris, various street-traders advertise their business, including a chocolate seller and a lemonade seller on the left, and a shoe-black and a barber on the right, houses and churches in the background; a reversed copy of the larger plate."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., For later state with additional plate numbering, see no. 4918 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate., On leaf 12., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Pont-Neuf (Paris, France)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Signs (Notices), Street vendors, Muffs, Dogs, Umbrellas, Whips, Coach drivers, Guards, Lawyers, Barbers, Wigs, and Bells
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state with plate numbering. For earlier state with numbering in upper right corner only, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 771.10.01.02.1+., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "13" in upper left corner and "I" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- Muffs -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- Whips -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate -- Bells -- Paris: Le Pont Neuf., Watermark., and Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Coachdrivers, Dogs, Lawyers, Umbrellas, and Wigs
Leaf 12. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the Pont Neuf in Paris, various street-traders advertise their business, including a chocolate seller and a lemonade seller on the left, and a shoe-black and a barber on the right, houses and churches in the background; a reversed copy of the larger plate."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had all the works of Mr. Bunbury &c., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., For later state with additional plate numbering, see no. 4918 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Signboards -- French lemonade merchants -- Lemonade tanks -- Paris skyline from the Pont Neuf -- French poodles -- Sentries -- Parasols -- French portresses -- French shoeblacks -- Trades: Seller of chocolate -- Basket containing cups -- Pot for 'milling' chocolate., and Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with initials G.R. below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Pont-Neuf (Paris, France)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges, Signs (Notices), Street vendors, Muffs, Dogs, Umbrellas, Whips, Coach drivers, Guards, Lawyers, Barbers, Wigs, and Bells
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 29., Temporary local subject terms: Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Secret influence -- Sport: cricket bat., and Lower corners cut off diagonally.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 140 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdressers -- Domestic service: footman --F urniture: dressing tables -- Wall brackets -- Clocks -- Furnishings: statuettes -- Hand-held mirrors -- Reference to Cato., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 49 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
