In a circular drawing framed by trees in the foreground, a view of the cottage called Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, owned by the fashionable toy dealer Mrs. Chenevix and purchased in 1748 by Horace Walpole. The small ivy-covered house stands at cente...
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 June 1747.
View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a...
Composite image, set against a gray background pattern with images of leaves, flowers, and birds, including ten small rectangular views of English scenery, some drawn to overlap and partially obscure others. The scenes include: a view of a bridge and ...
Description:
Title written at bottom of image.
Subject (Topic):
Nature, Plants, Bodies of water, Cities & towns, and Dwellings
"A counterblast to British Museum Satires No. 14110, and an imitation of its manner, in the guise of a companion plate. As in that plate, a zebra with a man's head stands in an oval bandbox, but in profile to the right. The head is (presumably) Lord C...
Alternative Title:
Companion to the Queens ass in a band-box
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, corner of Sackville St., Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839., Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834., Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857., Howley, William, 1766-1848., and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Zebras, Boxes, Documents, Jewelry, Dwellings, and Castles & palaces
"A large stone cottage at right, with stone wall, a figure standing in a doorway looking out over a half-gate at far right, in the road in the foreground, a woman with a pail on her head and a man holding a horse, standing on either side of a group of...
"View of a mansion, with wall and gate in front, figures in the foreground including a man making a drawing of the house and another walking to the left with a dog behind him, sheep grazing to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentlemans seat on Stockwell Common, Surrey
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Volume 2, page 42. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting on a bench in a landscape, full-length, three-quarter to right, with a hat and fan, trees in the left middle distance, a house across a field in the right background, in an oval; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 14th, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Modena., and Italy.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Benches, and Dwellings
"Cows and goats with distended udders are grouped outside a small thatched cottage (see British Museum Satires No. 13893). The King, wearing apron, over-sleeves, and top-boots, stands by a cow, an arm resting on her back, his pail at his feet, his sto...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
