Catalogue of engraved portraits of noted personages, principally connected with the history, literature, arts and genealogy of Great Britain. With brief biographical notes, and a topographical index ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Letter from James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., and portrait print of James Otis Jr., 1743 June 17

Letter from Otis in Boston to his father, James Otis Sr. on June 17, 1743. In the short, half-page letter, Otis asks his father for money to pay for expenses relating to Commencement including the printing of theses, shoes, buckles, and any entertainment. He mentions that he will share entertainment expenses with his classmate Lothrop Russell.

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of portraits on loan in the new galleries of art, Corporation buildings, Sauchiehall Street.

Exhibition of portraits from Scotland and England "of deceased persons, especially of those who have been connected with Glasgow...." -- P. [iii].

British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time /

Includes indexes.

Materīaly dli︠a︡ russkoĭ ikonografīi /

Mode of access: Internet.

Schmidt's Werke, oder, Beschreibendes Verzeichniss sämtlicher Kupferstiche und Radirungen welche der berühmte Künstler George Friedrich Schmidt, Königl Preuss. Hofkupferstecher, Mitglied der Königl. Academien zu Berlin, Paris, und der Kaiserlichen zu St. Petersburg von anno 1729 bis zu seinem Tode 1775 verfertigt hat /

Frontispiece portrait of Georg Friedrich Schmidt engraved by D. Berger after a design by Schmidt himself.

The unequalled collection of engraved portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his family and marshals, belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell ... embracing the most important collection of portraits in mezzotinto, aquatint, line, and stipple; including many printed in colors, as well as choice proofs, also the extraordinary collection of caricatures on Napoleon by Cruikshank, Gillray, Rowlandson, and others. To be sold ... December 18 ... and ... December 19, 1908 ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan V. Henkels. At the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & co. ...

Red cancel drawn through the portraits.

Lely & the Stuart portrait painters; a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck:

"Of this work 375 copies (of which 350 are for sale) have been printed on pure rag paper; also (for a subscriber) 30 copies (25 for sale) on hand-made paper, with an extra set of the plates. Of the ordinary edition this is no. 21."

A catalogue, of the most remarkable collection of prints ever offered to the public; being matchless both for number, variety, beauty, and scarcity : consisting of all the great masters in Europe ... the topography of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ... heraldry, and all other antiquities in each country; likewise a wonderful collection both of English and foreign portraits ... : which will be sold by Mr. Greenwood, at his room, in Leicester Square on Monday the 16th day of January, 1786, and the following days.

Issued in 3 parts. The second (p. [81]-158) has special t.p.: A catalogue of the remaining part of this collection of prints ... which will be sold by Mr. Greenwood ... on Tuesday the 21st day of February, 1786, and seventeen following days. The third (p. 159-169) has special t.p.: A continuation, of a most curious, scarce, valuable, and fine collection of all those persons who ... are entitled to a place in the English school ... [sold March 14-15, 1786].

A Geographical companion, to Mrs. Trimmer's scripture, antient, and English abridged histories, with prints, calculated to render the study of history more interesting to children, and to serve as an easy introduction to the knowledge of the earth.

Each map has imprint: Published May 11, 1811 by J. Harris.

Wrapped fragments : Drapery, the eighteenth century portrait bust and the male subject

The depiction of drapery (generalised cloth as opposed to clothing) is a well-established convention of Neo-Classical sculpture and is often downplayed by art historians as of purely rhetorical value. It can be argued however that sculpted drapery has served a spectrum of expressive ends, the variety and complexity of which are well illustrated by a study of its use in portrait sculpture. For the Neo-Classical portrait bust, drapery had substantial iconographic and political meaning, signifying the new Enlightenment notions of masculine authority. Within the portrait bust, drapery also served highly strategic aesthetic purposes, alleviating the abruptness of the truncated format and the compromising visual consequences of the “cropped” body. With reference to Joseph Nollekens’ portraits of English statesman Charles James Fox and the author’s own sculptural practice, this paper analyses the Neo-Classical use of drapery to propose that rendered fabric, far from mere stylistic flourish, is a highly charged visual signifier with much scope for exploration in contemporary sculptural practice.

Old master prints from the collection of the late Dr. Albert W. Blum.

Sotheby’s press release on occasion of an auction in New York, 1988 with a short biographical abstract of Albert Blum.

Fifty cottage prints, from sacred subjects /

"July, 1851"--Preface.

English men of letters /

"Portrait edition."

Guide to an exhibition of drawings and sketches by old masters and deceased artists of the English school, principally acquired between 1895 and 1901.

"Comp. for the most part by Mr. Laurence Binyon"--p. 4.