Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) cle...
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players.
"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in acade...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the print on which this design is based.
A view of Strawberry Hill from the edge of the Thames looking back up towards the house over the lawn. In the foreground, on the left, a man in classical dress sits on the lawn, a woman standing over him and pointing. On the right, three other figur...
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill East front
Description:
Title and printmaker from Gascoigne.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Portrait of Lady Selina Meade standing half-length to right, looking to front, holding a small bouquet in her left hand and wearing pearls around her neck; clouds behind her
Description:
Title and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the l...
