Print book of William Porden of engravings, entitled "Illustrations", mostly taken...

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Print book of William Porden of engravings, entitled "Illustrations", mostly taken from serial publications The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Adventurer

[early 19th cent]

List of prints/engravings collected by William Porden and passed to John Philip Gell and Philip Lyttelton Gell
First two pages: six plates to Robinson Cursoe; artist, Thomas Stothard; and engraver, Medland (1790)
Page 1: The Tatler; vol. 1 frontispiece and two illustrative prints, Nos. 4 and 15; artists include: W.M. Craig, T Stothard, R.A., and Hy. Singleton; and engravers include: J Landseer, Cmo. Armstrong and J.M. Delattre.
Page 2: The Tatler; vol.1 illustrative print No.23 and vol.2 frontispiece and illustrative print No. 53; artists include: Hy. Singleton (2) and Hy. Thomson R.A.elect; and engravers include: Anker Smith A.R.A. (2) and Jas. Neagle.
Page 3: The Tatler; vol.2 three illustrative prints Nos. 72, 82 and 94; artists include: Hy. Tresham R.A., Hy. Thomson R.A.elect and P.J. de Loutherbourg R.A.; and engravers include: Abrm. Raimbach, Anker Smith A.R.A., and Jas. Fittler A.R.A.
Page 4: The Tatler; vol.3 frontispiece and an illustrative printNo.133; artists include: Hy. Singleton and Hy. Thomson R.A.elect; engravers include: Jas. Neagle and Jas. Parker.
Page 5: The Tatler; vol.3 two illustrative prints Nos. 152 and 181; artists include: Hy. Fuseli R.A. and Richd. Westall R.A.; engravers include: Wm. Bromley and Anker Smith A.R.A.
Page 6: The Tatler; vol.3 two illustrative prints Nos. 183 and 185; artists include: T. Stothard R.A. and Hy. Singleton; engravers include: Jas. Futler A.R.A. and Jas. Neagle.
Page 7: The Tatler, vol.4 two illustrative print Nos. 233 and 231; artists include: John Opie R.A and Hy. Singleton; engravers include: Wm. Bromley and Jas. and Futler A.R.A.
Page 8: The Spectator, vol.1 1803, frontispiece and illustrative print No. 2; artists include: Hy. Singleton R.H. Cromek and .; engravers include: Jas. Neagle and R.H. Cromek.
Page 9: The Spectator, vol.1 two illustrative prints Nos. 56 and 80; artists include: Hy. Tresham R.A. and T. Stothard R.A.; engravers include: Abrm. Raimbach and Jas.Parker.
Page 10 – non-existent due to misnumbering.
Page 11: The Spectator, vol. 2 three illustrative prints Nos.130, 133 and 159; artists include: T. Stothard R.A, P.J. de Loutherbourg R.A. and Hy. Thomson, A.R.A.; engravers include: R.H. Cromek, Wm. Bromley and Jas. Futler A.R.A.
Page 12: The Spectator, vol.2 (1803) frontispiece, vol.3 (1803) frontispiece and illustrative print No. 171; artists include: John Thurston, Hy. Singleton and John Opie R.A.; engravers include: Anker Smith A.R.A. (2) and Jas. Neagle.
Page 13: The Spectator, vol.3 two illustrative prints Nos. 173 and 193; artists include: John Thurston and Wm. Artaud; engravers include: Cmo. Armstrong and Jas. Futler A.R.A.
Page 14: The Spectator Vol.3 illustrative print No. 237 and Vol.4 (1803) Frontispiece; artists include: R.K. Porter and E.E. Burney; engravers include: Jas. Neagle and Wm. Bromley.
Page 15: The Spectator, vol.4 two illustrative prints Nos. 283 and 289 and vol. 5 (1803) frontispiece; artists include: T Stothard R.A., Hy.Thomson A.R.A. and H Singleton; engravers include: R.H. Cromek, Jas. Futler A.R.A. and Jas. Neagle.
Page 16: The Spectator, vol.5 two illustrative prints Nos. 325 and 349; artists include: Hy. Singleton and Hy. Howard A.R.A.; engravers include: Jos. Collyer A.R.A. and Jas. Neagle.
Page 17: The Spectator, vol.5, illustrative print No. 379 and vol.6, illustrative print No. 426; artists include: Hy. Fuseli R.A.; and P.J. de Loutherbourg R.A.; engravers include: Wm. Sharp; and J. M. Delatire.
Page 18: The Spectator, vol.6, two illustrative prints Nos. 449 and 491; artist: Richd. Westall R.A.; engravers: P.W. Tomkins and Anker Smith A.R.A.
Page No. 19: The Spectator, vol.7, illustrative print No. 491; artist: Richd. Westall, R.A.; engraver: Anker Smith A.R.A.
Page No. 20: The Spectator, vol.7, illustrative print No. 511; vol.8 frontispiece, and illustrative print No. 564; artists include: Hy. Singleton, E.F. Burney, and P.J. de Loutherbourg R.A.; engraver include: Anker Smith R.A., Jas. Fittler, R.A., and Wm. Bromley.
Page 21: The Spectator vol.8, two illustrative prints Nos. 578 and 611; artists include: Hy. Thomson A.R.A., and John Opie R.A.; engravers include: Jas. Parker, and Jos. Collyer A.R.A.
Page 22: three illustrative prints; ‘To the Right Honourable Earl Spencer’; ‘John Sharpe’; and The Guardian, vol.1, frontispiece; artists include: H Tesham, R.A.delt., and Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: D Schiavonetti [Fct.?], and Jas. Neagle.
Page 23: The Guardian, vol.1, two illustrative prints Nos.32 and 37; artist: Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: W.H. Worthington, and Anker Smith, A.R.A.
Page 24: The Guardian, vol.1, illustrative print No.50; vol.2 frontispiece, and illustrative print No. 111; artist: : Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: Jas. Parker, Jas. Neagle, and Abr. Rainbach.
Page 25: The Guardian, vol.2, three illustrative prints Nos. 117, 138, and 184; artist: : Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: Jas. Fittler, and Wm. Bromley.
Page 26: The Adventurer, vol.1, frontispiece and two illustrative prints Nos. 17 and 7; artist: Richd. Westall R.A.; engravers include: Jas. Heath A.R.A., and J. Mitan.
Page 27: The Adventurer, vol.2, frontispiece; artist: Richd. Westall R.A.; engraver: Anker Smith A.R.A.
Page 28: The Adventurer, vol.2, illustrative print No. 70; artist: Richd. Westall R.A; engraver: Ander Smith A.R.A.
Page 29: The Adventurer, vol.3, frontispiece and illustrative print No. 81; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engraver: J Mitan.
Page 30: The Adventurer, vol.3, illustrative print No. 73; artist: R. Westall R. A.; engraver: Anker Smith, A.R.A.
Page 31: The Adventurer, vol.4, frontispiece and two illustrative prints Nos. 129 and 125; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: J Miten, Anker Smith A.R.A. and Jas. Heath A.R.A.
Page 32: blank page
Page 33: illustrative print ‘Milton: Awake, arise, or be forever fall’n’; artist: Hy. Fuseli R.A.; engraver: P.W. Tomkins.
Page 34: two illustrative prints: ‘Milton: -the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe’ and Butler: ‘An Elephant from one of those, Two mighty armies is broke loose’; artists include: Richd. Westall R.A., and HY. Singleton; engraver: P.W. Tomkins.
Page 35: three illustrative prints: Waller: ‘When lately your fair hand in Woman’s weed, Wrapp’d any glad head, -‘; Waller: ‘Tis innocence and youth that makes, In Choris’ fancy such mistakes, To start at love and play with snakes’; and Dryden’s Fables ‘And thrust among the thorns her lilly hand, To draw the rose,-‘; artist: R. Westall R.A.: engraver P.W. Tomkins.
Page 36: three illustrative prints: Dryden’s Fables: ‘propt on her trusty staff, not half upright, And dropt an awkward courtesy to the knight’; Dryden: ‘she drew an Angel down’; and Dryden: When Jabal struck the chorded fhell’; artist: R Westall R.A.; engravers include: P.W. Tomkins, and Anthy. Cardon.
Page 37: three illustrative prints: Young: ‘Death bursts th’involving cloud, and all is day’; Young: ‘A Christian dwells, like Uriel, in the Sun’; and Young: ‘O solid bliss! Which nothing can destroy, Except a cad, bird, snail, or idle boy’; artist: Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: L. Schiavonetti, and P.W. Tomkins.
Page 38: three illustrative prints: Young: ‘The Nereids to my song replt! With voice and shell to lift it high’; Watts: ‘Death is the storm: she smiles to hear it roar, And bids the tempest waft it from the shore’; and Watts: ‘Hush y dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed!’; artists include: Robt.Smirke R.A., and Stothard R.A.; engraver: P.W. Tomkins.
Page 39: two illustrative prints: Tickell: ‘Beneath a lofty tulip’s ample shade, Sat the young lover and the immoral maid’; and Addison: ‘When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre, The listening savages advance’; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: Anthy. Cardon, and J. H. Wright.
Page 40: three illustrative prints: Pope: ‘O’er the pale marble shall they join their heads, and drink the falling tears each other sheds’; Pope: ‘Thus while she spoke, a sidelong glance she cast, Where Damian kneeling, worshipp’d as she past’; and Pope: ‘Sudden she flies, and whelms it o’er the pyor; Down fink the flames, and with a hiss expire’; artists include: Hy. Thomson R.A., R. Westall R.A., and Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: P.W. Tomkins, and Louis Schiavonetti.
Page 41: two illustrative prints: Gay: ‘A postrate game a lion spies, And on the greedy tyrant flies’; and Gay: Slow crawl’d the Snail-‘; artists include: R. Westall R.A., and John Opie, R.A.; engravers include: N. Schiavonetti, and P.W. Tomkins.
Page 42: three illustrative prints: Phillips: ‘-the honest man, Simple of heart, prefers inglorious want, To ill got wealth:-‘; A Philips: ‘His fingers restless, traverse to and fro, As in pursuit of harmony they go’; and Dyer: Here he puffs upon his spade, And digs up cabbage in the shade’; artists include: R. Westall R.A., and T. Stothard R.A.; engravers include: Anthy. Cardon, J. Vendramim, and N. Schiavonetti.
Page 43: three illustrative prints: Hamilton: ‘-In his right hand he held, Across, far beaming thro’ the night; he held, A pointed thistle rearit-‘; Hamilton: ‘Fly sift, my dove, and swift return, With answer back to those that mourn’; and Fenton: ‘Thus pray’d the youth in heat of blood, Whilst nigh celestial Cupid stood’; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: P.W. Tomkins, and A Cardon.
Page 44: two illustrative prints and a frontispiece: Thomson: ‘Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty’s self’; Mallet: ‘In glided Marg’ress grimly Ghost, And stood at William’s feet’; and The Seasons, 1807, frontispiece. Artists include: T. Stothard R.A., R. Westall R.A., and Hy. Thomson R.A.; engravers include: P.W. Tomkins and J. Heath A.R.A.
Page 45: three illustrative prints: Hill: ‘The distinction of Ages’; Thomson: ‘Till clustring round th’enchanter false they hung, Yinolten with his fyren melody’; ‘Tom Jones’; artists include: T Stothard R.A. and R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: R. Meadows, P.W. Tomkins, and Edwd. Smith.
Page 46: three illustrative prints: Akenside: ‘Fresh flow’rs & dews to sprinkle on the turf, Where Shakespeare lies'; Arkenside: ‘I heard sweet preludes dancing on her lyre, While my whole frame the faered found oby’d’; and Smollet: ‘And stretch’d beneath th’inclement skies, Weeps o’er her tender babes and dies’; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: P.W. Tomkins and Anthy.Cardon.
Page 47: three illustrative prints: Shenstone: ‘Own’d what she asked might be his duty, But paid the compliment to beauty’; Shenstone: ‘Sleep on, poor Child, whilst I withdraw, And this thy vile artillery hide-‘; and Somerville: ‘Then on the floor they pretty wantons play’d, Gladding the farmer’s heart-‘; artists include: Robt. Smirke R.A. and R. Westall R.A.; engravers include: L. Schiavonetti and P.W. Tomkins.
Page 48: three illustrative prints: Langhorne: ‘I see him still – dost thon not see, The haggard eyeballs hollow glare?’; Langhorne: ‘O tell me, parent, if thou art, What is the lovely picture dear?’; and Collins: ‘Oft with thy bosom bare are found, Pleading for him, the youth that sinks to the ground’; artists include: R. Westall, R.A. and I.P. Thomson R.A.; engravers include: Anthy. Cardon and P.W. Tomkins.
Page 49: three illustrative prints: T.Warton: ‘Whence various feenes and prospects wide below, Still tench his musing mind with fancies high to flow’; T. Warton: ‘The mourning Maid forgot her funeral dirge, And trimm’d her wreath of hyacinths anew’; and J. Warton ‘The naked beggar shivering lies, Whilst whistling tempests round her rise’; artists include: R. Westall R.A., W. Hamilton R.A., and Hy. Singleton; engravers include: N. Schiavonetti, F. Bartolozzi R.A.Lisbon, and P.W. Tomkins.
Page 50: three illustrative prints: Johnson: ‘New fears in dire viesisitude invade, The ruffling brake alarms and quivering shade’; Goldsmith: ‘Downward they move a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, & darken all the strand’; and Mickle: ‘Beneath a leafy Vine the nymph reclin’d’; artists include: Robt. Smirke R.A., Hy. Thomson R.A., and J Thursdon; engravers include: Anthy. Cardon and Agar.
Page 51: three illustrative prints: Savage: ‘Just as th’invet’rate Son of mischief ends, Comes a white dove, and hear the spot defends’; Gray: ‘Loose his bear, and hoary hair, Streanid, like a meteor, to the troubled air’; and Beattie: ‘And yet poor Edwin was so vulgar boy: Deep thought oft scrind to fix his infant eye’; artist: R. Westall R.A.; engraver: P.W. Tomkins.
Page 52: three illustrative prints: T.H. Moore: ‘Children of affluence, hear a poor mans pray’r! O haste and free me from this dungeon’s gloom’; E. Moore: ‘ I hear the kind call and obey, Oh Colin! Receive me, she cried’; and Logan: ‘Hung o’er the margin of the main, Her fix’d and earnest eyeballs strain’; artists include: R. Westall R.A. and Robt. Smirke R.A.; engravers include: N. Schiavonetti, P.W. Tomkins, and Anthy. Cardon.
Page 53: three illustrative prints: Penrose: ‘Before his safe revolving eyes, Various phantoms seem’d to rise’; Shaw: ‘Wilt thou?- I know thou wilt_sad silence speaks assent, And in that pleasing hope they Emma dies content’; and Headley: ‘Superstition’s martyr’d from half seen, Bent on the fragment of a broken cross’; artist: R. Westall, R.A.; engravers include: N. Schiavonetti and Anthy. Cardon.
Page 54: three illustrative prints: Russell: ‘Sudden a seer of future woes, he river’s awful god arose’; Wm. Thomson: ‘And from the water’s crystal bosom steal, Upon the grass the finny prey’; and J A G D: ‘So they, long sever’d, met in close embrace’; artists include: R. Westall R.A. and T. Stothard R.A.; engravers include: R.M. Meadows, J.H. Wright, and A. Cardon.
Page 55: three illustrative prints: Burns: ‘A waefu’ wanderer seeks thy tow’r, Lord Gregory ope thy door’; Burns: ‘My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream’; and ‘Wrapt I clouds in tempests lost’; artists include; R. Westall R.A. and R. Westall del.; engravers include: Anthy. Cardon, N. Schiavonetti, and I. Neagle sculp.
Page 56: three illustrative prints: Cowper: ‘Sage beneath the spreading oak, Sat the Druid, hoary chief’; Cowper: ‘_She would sit and weep, At what a Sailor suffers_’; and unnamed; artists include: Robt. Smirke R.A. and Stothard del.; engravers include: A. Cardon and Shape sculp.
Page 57: three illustrative prints: Everyone has his Fault: ‘Lady Eleanor _ you love me _ tis in vain to say, you do not: _ you love my child _’; George Barnwell: ‘Barnwell _ To gaze upon your beauty and press you hand inflames my wishes’ and Cato: ‘Juba _ See, Marcia, See, The Happy Juba lives!’; artists include: Howard, Stothard R.A., and Cook; engravers include: S. Noble and Engleheart.
Page 58: three illustrative prints: Gil Blas, vol.4, frontispiece; Scipio relating his history; and ‘Twas all the Business then to tend the sick and in their turns to die. In heaps they fell’; artists include: T. Stothard, T. Stothard R.A. and T. Stothard R.A.pinx.; engravers include: J. Mitan, F. Engleheart and J. Hught sculp.
Page 59: two illustrative prints, both by Stothard.
Page 60: an illustrative print; artist: H. Fuseli R.A.; engraver: W. Bromley.
Page 61: three illustrative prints; Cyrus, Orphan of China, and Timanthes; artist: Stothard.
Page 62: three illustrative prints; False Delicacy, The Mistake, and Henry II or Fall of Rosamund; artist: Stothard; engraver of Timanthes: Fittler sculp.
Page 63: three illustrative prints; Elfrida, Conduca, and Edward and Eleonora; artist: Stothard; engraver of Edward and Eleonora: Heath sculp.
Page 64: three illustrative prints; The Relapse, Cymon and Cleonice; artist: Stothard.
Page 65: three illustrative prints; Ambitious Step-mother; The Roman Father, and Sampson Agonistes; artists include: Stothard and Tesham del.; engraver of The Roman Father: A. Smith.
Page 66: three illustrative prints; Falstaff’s Wedding, Albina, and Eurydice; artists: Stothard.
Page 67: three illustrative prints; The Wonder, The Rival Queens, and The Way to Keep Him; artists: Burney del.; engravers include: Leney sculp. and A. Smith sculp.
Page 68: three illustrative prints; The Miser, Everyman in His Humour, and Busy Body; artists include: Smirke pinx. And Fuseli pinx.; engravers include: Heath sculp., Gringnion sculp., and Holloway sculp.
Page 69: three illustrative prints; Suspicious Husband, The Gamester, and The Drummer; artists include: Smirke pinx., Opie pinx., and Burney del.; engravers include: Heath sculp., Fittler sculp. And R. Rhodes.
Page 70: three illustrative prints; ‘You’re very impertinent me thinks to look over other people’s letters’; Foundling; and The Natural Son; artists include: Gorbould del.; engravers include; Leney sculp. and Springwell sculp.
Page 71: three illustrative prints; The Lily & the Rose; unnamed;; and ‘Now stir the fire & close the shtters fast, Let fall the Curtains, wheel the Sofa round’; artists include: Stothard; engravers include: Angus sculp., Rothwell sculp. and Heath sculp.
Page 72: three illustrative prints; ‘What magnificent ideas of the Creator and his works does the starry firmament present!’, unnamed, and ‘By contemplating the works of creation, man rises to some faint idea of its great Author’; artist: T. Stothard; engravers include: J. Baker sculp. and Blackberd.
Page 73: one illustrative print; ‘_ and press’d the youth close to his side that pleased him. Learning grew beneath his care _’; artist: Stothard del.; engraver: Angus sculp.
Page 74: three illustrative prints; unnamed, unnamed, and ‘The Angel of God appearing to Cain & Mahala’; artists include: Stothard del. And West delin.; engravers include: Heath sculp., Sharp sculp. and G. Murray sculp.
Page 75: three illustrative prints; ‘one sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise & taste’; The Victim; and ‘Haste thee Nymph and bring with thee jest and youthful jollity; artist: Stothard del.; engravers include: R.H. Cromeck and J. Park.
Page 76: five illustrative prints; ‘Admir’d such Wisdom in an earthly shape, and shew’d a Newton as we shew an Ape’; ‘Lolher bright image, pendent on my Neck, Is all Palemon rescu’d from the wreck’; Sigismunda; ‘assume the Port Of stately Valour: listening by his Side There stands a female Form’; and ‘_ And seizing by his guilty Throat, The Caitif vile’; artist: T. Stothard; engravers include: R.H. Cromeck, J. Neagle sculp., and J. Heath sculp.
Page 77: six illustrative prints; ‘The girl cried a fresh: Harley kissed off her tears as they flowed, and wept between every kiss’; unnamed; Shepherding; unnamed; ‘He seized her hand a languid colour reddoned his cheek, a smile brightened faintly in his eye. As he gazed on her it frew dim, it fixed, it closed’; and Pelemo; artist: [where known] Stothard,; engravers include: J. Neagle sculp., P. Audinet scup., J. Saunders sculp., and J.G. Walker.
Page 78: three illustrative prints: unnamed; Leonto & Almeria – noted artist: Burney; and unnamed.
Page 79: two illustrative prints: The Landing of Julius Caesar; and Votigern and Rowena.
Page 80: two illustrative prints: Alfred in the Danish Camp; and The Treachery of Elfrida.
Page 81: two illustrative prints: Canute reproving his Courtiers; and The Exposure of Prince Edwin.
Page 82: two illustrative prints: The Death of William Rufus; and Magna Charta presented to King John.
Page 83: two illustrative prints: The Victory of Poictiers; and The Battle Agincourt.
Page 84: two illustrative prints: The Magnanimity of William Despreaux; and The Young Earl of Richmond before Henry.
Page 85: two illustrative prints: Queen Margaret Protected by a Robber; and Queen Margaret resigning The Duke of York.
Page 86: two illustrative prints: Murder of Edward V and the Duke of York; and Wolsey Receiving a Letter sent by Hen. VIII.
Page 87: two illustrative prints: The Burning of Archbishop Cranmer; and Death of Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 88: two illustrative prints: Death of Lord Darnley; and Mary Queen of Scots arrested when going to the Chace.
Page 89: two illustrative prints: Charles II Disguised as a Woodman after the Battle of Worcester; and Fate of the Earl of Sandwich.
Page 90: two illustrative prints: the Act of Union read before Queen Anne; and The Shipwreck of Prince William.
Page 91: two illustrative prints: The heroism of Captain Farmer; and an unnamed print drawn by Stothard and engraved by Heath sculp.

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