Volume 2, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Lawrence; seated three-quarter length slightly to left in an oval, looking to the right, holding a sheet of figures across his lap inscribed 'Long Minuet', completing the drawing with a pencil in his right hand, which rests on a table at left; pilllar and trees behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 24 April 1789, by S. Watts, No. 28 Walcot-place, Lambeth & to be had at T. Ryders, No. 34, Great Titchfield St.
Quarter-length portrait of Henry Seymour Conway after Gainsborough, framed by oval design. Conway is in uniform, turned to the left with head facing and looking to the right
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image., Date from unverified data from local record., Copy of painting by Thomas Gainsborough., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1170., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., and Mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1783-1810,
Queen Caroline walks down a plank balanced between a jolly boat and the shore; she is assisted by her son-in-law Prince Leopald, dressed in black. A cheering crowd stands on the beach, waving their hats in the air, behind an officer who tips his hat at the Queen. Sailors push the boat onto the shingle while a ship called "Prince Leopold" (in reference to her son-in-law) is anchored in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Related to George Cruikshank vignette entitled "Queen Caroline landing at Dover" on the title page for: Nightingale, Joseph. Memoirs of Queen Caroline. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820., and Framed to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
W.B. Walker
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Arrivals & departures, British, Sailors, Ships, Queens, and Kings
A satire of the 1832 Reform Bill, with a see-saw with the Crown as the fulcrum. At the center is William IV, waving the Union flag; to the right is Lord Grey, seated on the lever, helping William balance with a scroll marked 'Union', with John Bull standing underneath, wedging the lever up with the 'Reform Bill'; and to the right the Duke of Wellington tumbles backwards as the lever breaks under the weight of him and two huge scrolls marked 'Anti Reform'.
Description:
Title from text below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Laid on canvas backing.
Publisher:
Pubd. by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Seesaws, Crowns, Flags, and British
Military squabble about dress and Heroes in council
Description:
Title from item., Curator attribution: Possibly by Ansell., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: soldiers -- London hussar -- Knight -- Roman soldier -- Light Horse -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Emblems: dragon -- Allusion to Marc Anthony, 83-30 B.C. -- Allusion to Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, 69-30 B.C. -- Allusion to William Stewart, Viscount Mountjoy, 1653-1692 -- Allusion to Adonis., and Watermark: E & P.
In avenue of trees beside a rail-fence, an old farmer's wife (right), wearing spectales and dressed in black silk hat and mantle and muslin apron, starts back in astonishment at seeing her daughter (left) dressed in the extreme fashion of 1765-1775, with high hair and hat perching on top; at the girl's feet (left) is a small lap-dog
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Copy of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1770. See no. 4537 and 4538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs, 11th October 1779 by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58 in Cornhill
In avenue of trees, an old farmer's wife (right), dressed in black silk hat and mantle and muslin apron, starts back in astonishment at seeing her daughter (left) dressed in the extreme fashion of 1765-1775, with high hair and hat perching on top; to the left a black page boy holds the girl's lap-dog. In the distance on the left is a house with two gable windows
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "From an original drawing by Grimm." See Stephens., Companion print of: Welladay! is this my son Tom!, Cf. "Be not amaz'd dear mother. It is indeed your daughter Anne" no. 4537 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / F.G. Stephens, v. 4. Published by Carington Bowles in 1770., No. 6 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Daughters, Dogs, Hairstyles, Servants, and Mothers
"Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, whole length, standing to right, looking to front, his right hand on his hip, holding plumed hat in the left, over a chair; wearing Garter robes and chain with George; sword and mace on cloth embroidered with coat of arms at left, fluted column and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left corner of plate., Dedication etched beneath title: To His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. this engraving is humbly dedicated by His Majesty's faithful and devoted subject, Andrew Robertson., and Bound in opposite page 634 (leaf numbered '78' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published 1st Feby. 1827, by Messrs. Colnaghi Son & Co., Pall Mall East, London; R. Milliken & J. Allen, Dublin
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,
Subject (Topic):
Governors, British, Politicians, Robes, and Ceremonial maces