Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César…

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Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the right; wearing a dress and cap over their hair, including a medal; in an oval.

  • Printmaker: Le Beau, Pierre Adrien, 1748- printmaker.
  • Title: Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] : a été Avocat au Parlement, Censeur Royal, Capitaine de Dragons, Chevalier de St. Louis, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de France a la Cour d’Angleterre / Desrais del. ; Le Beau sc.
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [1780s?]

Catalog Record

Portraits D418 no. 2

Acquired February 2024

Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects

frontispiece

Leaf [1], title page plate; leaves [2]-[29] with plates numbered 1-36 with scenes cottages and views of rural areas; leaves [30]-[34] with plates 37-44 with images of allegorical and mythical figures; leaf [35] with plate numbered 45, a woman with a tub; leaf [36] with plates 46-47 two men in profile; leaf [37] with plate 47, a portrait of “T.K. [that is, Thomas Kirgate] Painted & etch’d by EE. Finish’d by I. Hall”; leaf [38] with plates 49-50 with classical motifs, cherubs and scrollwork; leaf [39] with plate 51, sea creatures and syrens.
Many plates signed “E.E.’ and dated 1784-1790.

  • Printmaker: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker.
  • Title: Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects / designed and etched by Edward Edwards Associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1790.
  • Manufacture: [1794].

Catalog Record

Quarto 75 Ed96 794

Acquired December 2023

Collection of prints, broadsides,…relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy

several views of exterior of Cato Street

A collection of 41 printed items that chronical the 1820 plot to murder the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet, so named for location where the thirteen conspirators meet near Edgware Road in London. The police learned of the plot through an informer, George Edwards, leading to a police trap in which one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed but the plotters apprehended. The collection includes portraits of the plotters, views of the Cato Street area, broadsides describing the events and others with images and descriptions of the execution of five of the conspirators. Five other conspirators were transported to Australia. A drawing signed “Peter Jackson, July 31, 1960” is a 20th-century view of the exterior of the London building where the conspirators were discovered.

  • Title: Collection of prints, broadsides, and ephemera relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, 1960.

Catalog Record

LWL MSS 52

Acquired January 2024

 

The Cyprian of St. Stephen’s

printed title page

  • Title: The cyprian of St. Stephen’s, or, Princely protection illustrated ; in a poetical flight to the Pierian Spring / by Sam Satiricus.
  • Published: Bath, England : J. Browne, 1809.

Catalog Record

53 C599 S809

Acquired April 2024

Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi

title page

With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.

  • Author: Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, printmaker.
  • Title: Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi [graphic] / by Ben. Green of X’s [i.e. Christ’s] Hospital.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1773.

Catalog Record

75 G795 773

Acquired December 2023

A key for Mr. Copley’s plate of the Death of the late Earl of Chatham

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Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified.

  • Title: A key for Mr. Copley’s plate of the Death of the late Earl of Chatham [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Published by John Singleton Copley, R.A., Decr. 26, 1791, and sold at Parr’s Print Warehouse, No. 52 Pall Mall, [26 December 1791]

Catalog Record

791.12.26.01 Boxed

Acquired October 2023

Maria Lady Broughton

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“Half-length, directed towards and looking to the left, right arm resting on a slab to the right, chin leaning on her hand; published state.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Finlayson, John, 1730-1776, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: Maria Lady Broughton [graphic] / F. Cotes pinxt. ; J. Finlayson sculpt.
  • Edition: [State 2].
  • Publication: [London] : Published May 29th, 1772, & sold by J. Finlayson, Orange Street, Leicester Fields, [29 May 1772]

Catalog Record

Portraits B875 no. 1++

Acquired February 2024

His late Most Sacred Majesty George II

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A print with two large woodcut portraits and letterpress captions below. On the left King George II and on the right Caroline of Ansbach, each depicted full-length in a large octagonal foliate frame.

  • Title: His late Most Sacred Majesty George II, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland … [graphic] ; Her Most Excellent Majesty Carolina-Wilhelmina-Dorothea, late consort of his majesty king George II …
  • Publication: London : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, [not before October 1760]

Catalog Record

760.10.00.01++

Acquired October 2023

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée..

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Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the left; wearing the full military garb of a Captain of the Dragoons, including epaulets and medals; in an oval.

  • Printmaker: Le Beau, Pierre Adrien, 1748- printmaker.
  • Title: Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] : a été Avocat au Parlement, Censeur Royal, Capitaine de Dragons, Chevalier de St. Louis, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de France a la Cour d’Angleterre / Desrais del. ; Le Beau sc.
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [1780s?]

Catalog Record

Portraits D418 no. 1

Acquired February 2024

The oyster girl

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Full half-length portrait of a young woman, directed slightly to right, facing and looking to front, head inclined to left; wearing a bonnet and a cloak; hands holding a tray of oysters.

  • Printmaker: Young, John, 1755-1825, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: The oyster girl [graphic] / drawn by J.G. Huck ; engrav’d by J. Young.
  • Publication: [London] : Publishd. April 1st, 1786, by J. Young, No. 28 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London, [1 April 1786]

Catalog Record

786.04.01.13+

Acquired April 2023