Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. II and No. III, of Caroline Petersham, Lady Harrington, and Lord Barrington
Alternative Title:
Hostile scribe
Description:
Titles etched below images., In upper right corner: Vol. III., Dated by George: 1 February 1771., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 3 (1771), p. 9., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on board together with four pages of text for which this plate is an illustration.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793,
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from magazine for which this plate was engraved., Illustration to a letter to the editor signed 'S.P.', Plate from: The Oxford magazine. London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: temples -- Temple of liberty -- Personifications: Liberty -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Secret influence -- Sawyers -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Tools: saws.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.07.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Ladies absurdity
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Naval officers -- Military uniforms: naval officer's uniform -- Trades: hairdressers -- Furnishings: mirrors -- -- Carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Hairdressing implements: curling tongs -- Step ladders -- Naval instruments: quadrant., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
A girl in peasant dress shown full length holds a hurdy-gurdy or vielle suspended round her neck. She wears a neckless and pinned at her breast, a nosegay of flowers. Her face is in profile as she turns her head to the right away from the viewer
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Madlle. Heinel in the character of a sultana., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Organ grinders
"Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Size of the picture, 2 f. 0 i. by 2 f. 6 i. in height"--Lower left corner., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 212 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 25th, 1771, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Title engraved below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdresser's implements: curling tongs -- Furniture: secretaire -- Busts: Oliver Cromwell's bust -- Side chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: Don Quixote attacking a windmill -- Maps: wall map of Iberian Peninsula -- Wall map of British Isles -- Map of Falkland Islands -- Politics: relations with Spain -- Dispute over Falkland Islands -- House of Commons: Speaker's warrant -- Allusion to Norton Fletcher, 1716-1789 -- Allusion to Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818, suspected to be Junius -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616 -- Eyeglasses.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Title from item., One line of text below title: Oh had we staid & said our pray'rs at home. Pope's Rape of the Lock., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Drury Lane Theatre -- Riots: Wilkites vs. ministerialists, Drury Lane Theatre, March 3, 1770 -- Tickets sellers -- Ticket offices -- Lighting: lanterns -- Canes: tasselled canes -- Ministerialists -- Wilkites -- Playbills -- Propaganda -- Altered quotation from Rape of the lock, iv, 160, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Allusion to Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Literature: Allusion to The ladies frolick by James Dance (James Love) (1722-1774) -- Allusion to A word to the wise by Hugh Kelly (1739-1777)? -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ( 1708-1778) -- Allusion to David Garrick (1717-1779)., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lys.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
A young couple is sitting at a round table. The girl, smiling at her companion, is pointing to a mousetrap with a mouse in it. The young man, holding a cat under his left arm, reciprocates with a gesture of self-assurance
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description:
Title from item., Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: To one alone I cannot constant be, because the life I love is to be free ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Letters: billets doux -- Furniture: couch.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Cf. No. 4635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Costumes: masquerade -- Devil -- Musical instruments: oboe., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Pariament., Decr. 8th 1771, by MDarly, (39 Strand)
