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Arranged in chronological order of publication. The list is probably incomplete, but it contains all the Parker prints I have encountered. Two abbreviations occur: BL (British Library, London) and GEB (G. E. Bentley, Jr, Toronto).

Year Not Known

View of Claybrook Church, the only aquatint Parker is known to have made; it may have been published by Parker, for the copperplate of it appeared in Parker's sale by Thomas Dodd, 18 February 1807, Lot 236.

Eight plates, including "Edwin and Angelina", also perhaps published by Parker, appeared in the same sale, Lot 235.

1780 — 81

4°; Parker engraved the plate of "Eve presenting the forbidden fruit to Adam" (Genesis iii, 6); there were 58 plates all told, including five by Blake.

1781

See 1784 Seally and Lyons, Geographical Dictionary.

1782

See 1784 Seally and Lyons, Geographical Dictionary.

1783

The large oval plate of "The Pulse. Le Pouls." from "Sterne's Sentimental Journey Vol. I" is signed "J. Northcote Pinxit John Harris excudit Parker sculp" and "Publish'd July 10th 1783, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill" <Robert N. Essick> (see Plate 5).[40]

Parker sent his print after Barralet for Boydell called "Fainasollis Borbar & Fingal" to the exhibition of the Society of Artists in 1783, when he was living at 19, Little Drury Lane <British Museum Print Room> (see Plate 4). The engraving, "From the Original Drawing in the Collection of Charles Boddam Esq.r ", has no imprint, but apparently it was published by Macklin, who paid Parker £80 for it.

Trade card for: Birchall and Beardmore, | MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SELLERS, | N.° 129 New Bond Street. | [Vignette of Apollo with a harp, J Parker del et sculp] | Sell all sorts of Musical Instruments, | fine Roman Violin and Violoncello Strings, | & every Article in the Musical branch, Wholesale & Retail on the lowest terms. | Piano-Fortes, Harpsichords and Spinets, lent by the Month, Quarter, or Year, & | Tuned in Town or Country on the shortest notice. | NB. Every New Publication as soon as Published [dated in MS 1783][41] [see Plate 6]

A scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor after S. Harding in 1783, according to Dodd. Parker was paid £80 for it by Macklin (see essay above).

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1784

4°; J. Parker engraved two of the sixty-six plates, of "Burgos" (16 Oct 1781) and "Dantzick" (9 Feb 1782), and Blake engraved three others.

The work was re-issued in 1787 <BL; GEB>, as The New Geographical Magazine (?1793) <Library Company of Philadelphia), and as The New Royal System of Universal Geography (?1794) <Library of Congress>.

"The Birth of American Liberty" after S. Harding in 1784, according to Dodd.

1786

"Sterne [i.e., Yorick] Conducting Maria into Moulines" after James Northcote published by John Harris 17 February 1786.[42]

1787

"The Ticket" and "The Novel" after James Northcote, apparently for Sterne's Sentimental Journey (see 1785, 1786, 1791), according to Thomas Dodd.

1789

James Parker's engraving of "Sterne [i.e., Yorick] in the Glove Shop" after Northcote was published by John Harris in 1789.[45]

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1790

The Times for 23 November 1788 carried an advertisement for "A CAPITAL ENGRAVING from a Picture [24” x 19”] by JAMES NORTHCOTE of the Prince and Princess of Orange [William and Mary] being offered the crown of England; Subscriptions are received by the Publisher John Harris, No. 3. Sweeting's Alley, Royal-Exchange; and by the Engraver James Parker, No. 27, Broad Street, Golden Square; at which Places an etched proof may be seen".[46] According to Dodd, this plate (he calls it "The Revolution of 1688") and Northcote's "The Landing of the Prince of Orange at Torbay", published in 1790, were among Parker's most distinguished line-engravings. They would have been especially appropriate for the celebrations of the centenary of the Glorious Revolution in 1788. Apparently the copperplates were acquired by John Boydell and reprinted in 1801.[47]

1792

Goldsmith, Oliver. THE | VICAR | OF | WAKEFIELD. | — — | A | TALE. | — — | IN TWO VOLUMES. | — — | BY DR. GOLDSMITH. | — — | Sperate Miseri, cavete Felices. | — — | LONDON: | PRINTED BY SAMMELLS AND RITCHIE, | FOR | R. HARDING, FLEET-STREET; AND J. GOOD, NEW BOND-STREET. | — — | MDCCXCII [1792]. <GEB; Bodley: 246 e 13432>

12°; J. Parker engraved the six plates after Stothard dated 1 March and 1 June 1792.

1793

Hamilton, Antoine. MÉMOIRES | DU | COMTE DE GRAMMONT, | PAR LE C. ANTOINE HAMILTON. | EDITION ORNÉE DE LXXII PORTRAITS, GRAVÉS D'APRES | LES TABLEAUX ORIGINAUX. | A LONDRES: | CHEZ EDWARDS, N.° 78, PALL MALL [1793]. <Bodley: Arch Antiq A I 32 and Hanson Papers; BL: 683 h 18 (LP) and G 1716 (LP) and 134 c 15 (LP); GEB (watermarked 1801); Huntington: 28400 (folio); Virginia State Library>

4°, with copies on Large Paper and folio (5); the 79 plates (published 1792 — 93 by E. & S. Harding) after copies (chiefly by S. Harding) of original paintings were signed by sixteen engravers, two of them by J. Parker.

4°; the same plates were used in both the French and English editions.

[Hayley, William] A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend to the Sisterhood. The Third [i.e., second] Edition, With Corrections and Additions (London: T. Cadell, 1793). <Bodley, BL, Cambridge, Huntington>

Parker engraved one of the five plates (four of them after Stothard), according to his receipt from 27 Broad St to Cadell & Davies, 2 February 1793 for £8.8.0 (in the Free Library of Philadelphia). The first edition (1785, re-issued with a new titlepage in 1786) had no plate.

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by G. SIDNEY, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street. | — — | Price Six Guineas in Boards.

Thomas Dodd (1771 — 1850) included James Parker in his manuscript "Memorials of Engravers that have exercised the art in Great Britain", saying that he was "An engraver of Portraits and Subjects of History. . . . His earliest productions are in the stippled method and consist of some few portraits [i.e., 6] of the Series of illustrations of Shakespeare, published by Messrs E. & G. Harding about the year 1791; he rose to become eminent in the history of engraving".[48]

According to DNB, Parker engraved "some portraits for Harding's 'Shakespeare Illustrated'", but I did not notice them in the copies I saw. The work was issued in parts, probably in 1790 — 93. The plates were printed on paper of various sizes, and after 700 copies had been printed the plates were destroyed (according to James Edwards' Catalogues of 1794 and 1796, #290).

12°; Parker engraved the four plates dated April, May, and June 1793 after Corbould.

According to T. H. Cromek: "I have a copy of the book [Thomson, The Seasons (n.d. given)], and a set of the prints: they have my father's name as the engraver; but M.r Frost, however, has a set of proofs with the name of Parker. Which of the two really did engrave them, I cannot decide. As far as external evidence goes, they might be the work of either of them".[49]

The Seasons (London: R. Baldwin, &c., 1803) <GEB> does indeed have plates after Corbould by Cromek which are identical in design to those engraved by Parker in 1793. I compared them minutely and found them disconcertingly similar except that (1) in all the imprint beneath the design is entirely different, (2) in 1803 the head with floral swags above the oval design is gone, and (3) the hatching of the surround between the oval design and the rectangular frame is quite different. In the comparisons below, I only examined the prints far enough to persuade myself that they are different plates, though the principal figures are astonishingly similar:

1 "Spring": numerous small details of foliage, e.g., on the river-bank and by the man's left elbow are significantly different; in 1793 the man's sleeves are cross-hatched, but in 1803 they are not;
2 "Summer": The right shoe is cross hatched in 1793 but not in 1803; ankle lines different;

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3 "Autumn": Foliage and bottom left tree are different;
4 "Winter": Spinning wheel has horizontal bands in 1793, vertical ones in 1803.

1794

4°, 2 vols.; J. Parker engraved two plates (6 Oct 1791, 25 Aug 1792) of the seventeen after Stothard.

This "Magnificent Edition" was advertised in [Robert Dodsley], The Œconomy of Human Life (London: S. & E Harding, 1795) <GEB> with plates after Stothard "by Mr. Bartolozzi, Mr. Parker, &c." in quarto (£4.16.0 with 15 plates), octavo (£1.15.0, with 14 plates), in twelves (12s., with 10 plates), and in 18s (10s, with 10 plates).

Ibid. (1794), 80, including both Parker plates. <GEB>

Ibid. (London: Crosby & Letterman, 1800). <BL: 12519 f 35>

12°; J. Parker engraved the six plates after Stothard dated 1 Nov 1794.

The same plates, now much worn, appeared in the edition published by Crosby and Letterman, 1800 <Bodley: Vet A 5 e 4680>.

There was an edition in French Ornée de Six Estampes d'après des Desseins de STOTHARD, R.A. (Londres: Chez Isaac Herbert, Vernor et Hood, et M. Stace, 1796), but the only copy I have seen <Bodley: Fic 27524 e 91> has no plate.

James Parker engraved for Thomas Macklin by 1794 "Fainasollis Borbar & Fingal" (for which he was paid £80) (see 1783 — and Plate 4) and "The Fall of Agandecca" (£180) after J. Barralet and "Cymbeline" (£80) after S. Harding; they are listed with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (1783) after S. Harding (£70) in Macklin's Poetic Description (1794) (see essay above).

1795

12°; J. Parker engraved one of four plates after Stothard published by Cadell & Davies 1 Nov 1794.

The same plates appear in the editions of 1796 <GEB (2 copies)> and 1803 <Huntington: 434549>.

12°; J. Parker engraved one of four plates after Stothard published by Cadell &

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Davies, for which he was paid £8.8.0, according to his receipt of 6 September 1794 (in the Free Library of Philadelphia). There were later Cadell & Davies editions in 1796 <BL: 11632 aaa 1; Huntington: 432402> and 1803 <11631 aaa 2>.

4°; J. Parker engraved two plates (dated 1 Jan and 1 July 1794) of the 12 after Stothard.

See 1796 Coombe, 1802 Shakspeare (2), and 1806 Hume.

1796

[Coombe, William] An History of the River Thames. 2 vols. (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794 [i.e., 1796]).

2°; among the 76 plates (mostly after Joseph Farington), the frontispiece of the god of the Thames, after [Anne Seymour] Damer's bust [on Henley Bridge (1785)], is signed by J. Parker and dated 1 Jan 1796, but presumably it was finished long before this, for four months earlier he signed a receipt for his completed work: "Received Augt 31: 1795 of Mess.rs Boydell Four Guineas for an Engraving of The Thames | £4. — 4. — James Parker".[50]

Falconer, William. THE | SHIPWRECK. | BY | WILLIAM FALCONER. | — — | [3-line motto] | — — | THE NINTH EDITION. | — — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, | (SUCCESSORS TO MR. CADELL) STRAND. | — — | 1796. <BL: 238 f 43>

J. Parker engraved one of four plates after Stothard which were published 1 May 1795 by Cadell & Davies.

The same plates appear in THE TENTH EDITION. | . . . DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. | — — | 1800. | (R. Noble, Printer, Old Bailey.) <BL: 1507 / 631>

12°; T. (i.e., J.) Parker engraved one of the three plates after Stothard dated 1 December 1795, for which, according to Parker's receipt to Cadell & Davies of 3 December 1795, he was paid £10.10.0 (MS in the Free Library of Philadelphia). One represents fox-hunters at a pub.

12°; J. Parker engraved two of the six plates after Stothard dated 1 August 1796, for which Cadell & Davies paid him £10.10.0 each, according to his receipts of 6 June 1796 and 26 July 1796 (MSS in the Free Library of Philadelphia).

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Johnson, Samuel, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (London: J. & E. Harding, 1796).

J. Parker engraved five plates after Stothard.[51]

See 1802 Shakspeare and 1806 Hume.

1797

12°; J. Parker engraved one of the four plates after Stothard with the imprint of 1 September 1797, for which he was paid £10.10.0, according to an undated receipt in the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The work with the same four plates was PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, | IN THE STRAND, | BY W. FLINT, OLD BAILEY. | — — | 1802 <GEB>.

Parker engraved Smirke's "Commemoration of 1797".[52]

See 1802 Shakspeare and 1806 Hume.

1798

12°; Parker engraved one of ten plates after Stothard dated 1 February 1798.

The same plates were used in The Poetical Works of William Cowper In Two Volumes, A New Edition (London: J. Johnson, 1800) <BL: 11633 e 7>.

See 1802 Shakspeare (2) and 1806 Hume.

1799

See 1802 Shakspeare (2) and 1806 Hume (2).

1800

Parker engraved a portrait of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (Prime Minister 1801 — 4) after Beechey for Boydell in 1800.[53] Perhaps this was the work for which Messrs. Boydell paid him £10.10.0 on account (according to his receipt of 6 March 1800 in the Free Library of Philadelphia).

See 1802 Shakspeare and 1803 Shakespeare.

1801

See 1802 Shakspeare.

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1802

8°; Parker engraved at least one plate.

The translator remarks that Smirke "has taken the trouble, not only to point out the different engravers, whose talents he thought best suited to the different pictures, but even to attend to the progress of their labours, and with the happiest consequences" (I, vii).

The engravers of the work, including Heath, Fittler, Anker Smith, Neagle, Parker, Warren, Armstrong, and Raimbach, began to meet monthly at one anothers' houses, and from these meetings grew the Society of Engravers.[54]

The "SET OF Engraver's PROOFS PRESENTED TO MR. PARKER by his compeers in this beautiful work" were offered in the Sotheby sale (of Robert Balmanno) 4 — 12 May 1830, Lot 692.

80; the thirteen plates in the ordinary issue include none by Parker,[55] but the Sotheby catalogue of Rare and Valuable Engravings of A Collector (Robert Balmanno), 4 — 12 May 1830, Lot 689, included "The set of Engravings for Du Roveray's Edition of Milton . . . and an additional plate of great rarity by Parker, after Smirke, for the Penseroso, 'The Story of Cambuscan Bold,' INDIA PROOFS before any letters", which I have never seen.

Parker engraved two of the four plates after Stothard, and the same plates appear, much worn, in the edition of 1806 (R. N. Essick). According to A. C. Coxhead, Thomas Stothard, R.A. (1906), 120 — 121, there was an edition of 1801 with fifteen plates, but I have not seen this. James Parker was paid £8.8.0 for "retouching two plates for the poems of Mr Rogers", according to his receipt to Cadell & Davies of 13 July 1803 (in the Free Library of Philadelphia).

2°; James Parker engraved 11 plates:

1 W. Hamilton, "Prospero, Miranda & Ariel" ["Prospero Dismisses Ariel", V],[56] Tempest, I, ii (23 April 1798), good; a proof with Miranda in outline only, a later one before letters "Etched by J. Parker", and the final version "Engraved by Jas Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. VI, at p. 2.

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2 H. Fuseli, "A Wood — Puck" ["Puck Descending from his Excursion", XXV], Midsummer-Nights Dream, II, ii (29 Sept 1799), fine; a very early proof marked "Etched by J. Parker" plus the finished versions "Engraved by Ja.s Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XIII, at p. 14.
3 R. Westall, "Shylock, Salanio, Antonio & Gaoler" ["Shylock consigning Antonio to Prison", XXVIII], Merchant of Venice, III, iii (1 Dec 1795).
4 R. Westall, "A Room of state in the Palace — Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Ghost, &c" ["Banquo appears to Macbeth", XLIV], Macbeth, III, iv (1 Aug 1799).
5 Willm Hamilton, "The Coast of Wales, King Richard, Aumerle, Salisbury, Bishop of Carlisle, & Soldiers ["Richard lands in Ireland", XLVIII], Richard II, III, ii (4 June 1800); a proof in outline before letters plus the watercolor are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXIII.
6 R. Westall, "Katherine, Griffith, and Patience" ["Queen Katherine's last Illness", LXX], Henry VIII, IV, 2 [The "Descriptive Index" gives V, 1] (29 Sept 1796) — good;[57] an early proof and an almost finished proof before letters are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>.
7 R. K. Porter, "Aufidius and Coriolanus" ["Meeting of Coriolanus", LXXIII], Coriolanus, IV, 5 (4 June 1801); a proof mostly in outline and a more finished version "Etched by J. Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXXIII, at p. 104.
8 R. Westall, "[Marc] Antony and the [dead] Body of Caesar" [LXXIV], Julius Caesar, III, i (21 Dec 1802).
9 Rob. [i.e., Richard] Westall, "Imogen in Boy's Clothes entering into the Cave" ["Imogen, disguised, enters Bellario's Cave", LXXXVII], Cymbeline, III, vi (29 Sept 1795); a proof before letters is in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXXIX.
10. R. Smirke, "Juliet and Nurse" [Juliet intreating her Nurse, XCII], Romeo and Juliet, II, v (29 Sept 1797);[58] a proof in outline before letters is in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XLI, at p. 48.
11 R. Westall, "Ophelia" ["Ophelia's Death", XCVIII], Hamlet, IV, 7 (23 April 1798), good; two proof states "Etched by J. Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XLII, at p. 124.

The plates appeared with the Fascicles as they were issued from 1791 onward. Blake also engraved a plate for the edition.

In an undated letter to John Boydell, "J Parker presents his Respects to Mr Alderman Boydell & will be obliged to Mr Harrison if [he] will send by the Bearer a Plate for the W Shakspeare for the Picture [by Westall] representing the Death of Julius Caesar".[59]

The work was reprinted in Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of Shakspeare (?1803) <GEB et al> and The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare (1832) <Folger>.

See 1806 Hume.

1803

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MDCCCIII [1803]. <Boston Public, Detroit Public, Folger (proofs and etchings), Huntington (2 copies), Pierpont Morgan, Royal Academy (2)>

Atlas 2° (68.5 cm high); Parker's plate of "Lady Macbeth with a Letter" after Westall bears the date of 4 June 1800.

12°; the title-page is engraved; the half-titles of the three volumes call it "The British Classics Vol. Fifth [ — Seventh]. 1803."

Parker engraved one of the 17 rather fine plates (his is after Stothard's "The Rival Beauties", dated 20 Aug 1803), for which he was paid £26.5.0.[60]

An 80 set in 8 volumes <BL: 1456 h 5 — 12> has a similar title-page and the same plates, dated 1803, but the half-title of the first volume (on laid, unwatermarked paper) calls it "The British Classics: Volume the Fifth Containing the First Volume of the Spectator. 1812", though subsequent volumes substitute "1812".

1803 — 1804

12°; the title-page is engraved; the half-titles call it "The British Classics Vol. I [ — IV]. 1803", though Vol. III — IV are dated 1804. It seems likely that there was also an 80 edition, as there was for the Spectator (above).

Parker engraved one of the 18 plates.

1804

8°; Jas Parker engraved one of the twenty plates dated 1 October 1804.

The work was reprinted "WITH ENGRAVINGS, FROM PAINTINGS AND DESIGNS OF HOWARD, STOTHARD, WESTALL, &c. &c." (London: Sharpe and Hailes, 1811) <GEB>.[61]

4°, thirty-nine volumes plus six volumes of plates; J. Parker engraved one plate after Flaxman dated 2 January 1804 for the Fascicle with the essay on "Basso Relievo"

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which was issued on 1 February 1804.[62] Blake made seven plates for the same edition, including one for "Basso Relievo" (1818).

See 1806 Hume.

1805

Oblong 4°; Parker engraved two of the five plates added in 1805,[63] and William Blake engraved the other three. On 11 March 1808 Flaxman told William Hayley: "M.r Longman paid 5 Guineas each one with another to Mess.rs Blake, Parker &c for the plates they engraved for the Homer and with which those Artists were highly contented — ".[64]

Flaxman, John. THE | ODYSSEY OF HOMER | ENGRAVED FROM THE COMPOSITIONS | OF IOHN FLAXMAN R.A. SCVLPTOR, | LONDON. | [Head of Homer within a wreath.] | LONDON: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES & ORME, Paternoster Row, R.H. EVANS, Pall Mall, W. MILLER, Albemarle Street, & I & A. ARCH, Cornhill, March. 1st 1805. <Aberdeen, Auckland, Bayerische Staats-bibliothek (Munich), GEB (4 copies), Bodley (1707 b 5), Bombay, Boston Athenaeum (2 copies), Boston Public, California (Los Angeles), Clark Library (Los Angeles), Dalhousie, Durham Cathedral, Gennadius Library (American School of Classical Studies, Athens), Glasgow, Indiana, Kansas, Liverpool Public, Manchester Public, Metropolitan Museum (N.Y.), Mitchell Library (Sidney), National Library of Ireland, New South Wales State Library (Sydney), Newberry Library, Royal Academy, Sir John Soane Museum, Sydney, Toronto, Trinity College (Cambridge; 2 copies), Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), Victoria State Library (Melbourne), Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria University (Victoria, British Columbia), Whitworth Art Gallery>

Oblong 4°; Flaxman made designs for The Iliad and The Odyssey in Rome in 1793, Piroli engraved two sets of plates for them, one for publication on the Continent and one for publication in England. The Odyssey plates were lost at sea, and in 1805 new copies were engraved by Parker (20) and Neagle (14).

See 1806 Hume (5).

1806

2°; Parker engraved 13 of the 199 plates, mostly after Stothard. Those for Chapter-headings consist of a summary of the contents (presumably executed by the writing-engraver), with a vignette at the top by Parker.

1 Chapters XXVII — XXXIII, Stothard, "Suppression of the Monasteries" (Aug 1795).
2 Chapters XXXIV — XXXV, Stothard, "Edward VI. Granting the Charter for Hospitals" (Nov 1796).
3 Chapters XLV — XLIX and Appendix, Stothard, "The Entry of James I. into London" (March 1797).
4 Chapters L — LIX, Stothard, "The Battle of Edge Hill" (March 1798).

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5 Chapters LXIII — LXIX, Stothard, "Lady Mary Presented to the Prince of Orange" (Jan 1799).
6 R. Smirke, "Sir T. Windham Admonishing His Sons to Preserve their Loyalty to the King" (1 May 1802).
7 Chapters LXX — LXXI, Stothard, "Flight of James 2.d" (Sept 1804).
8 J. Opie, "Balliol Surrendering his Crown to Edward I" (March 1799), fine (see Plate 3).
9 Stothard, "Q. Elizabeth at Tilbury" (1 Jan 1805).
10 Chapter XXIII, Stothard, "Murder of Edward V & of the Duke of York" (May 1805).
11 Chapters XV — XVI, Stothard "Origin of the Installation of the Garter" (1 June 1805).
12 Stothard, "Charles II. and Sir William Temple" (1 June 1805), fine.
13 Chapters XXXVIII — XLIII, Stothard, "Admiral Drake Knighted by Queen Elizabeth" (1 Oct 1805).

The plates for June and October 1805 (and perhaps others) were post-dated, for Parker died on 20 May 1805.

The plates were reprinted in A Series of One Hundred and Ninety-Six Engravings, (in the Line Manner,) by the First Artists in the Country, Illustrative of The History of England (London: R. Bowyer, 1812) <GEB>.

1809

Le Sage, David. Gil Blas de Santillane, 4 vols. (London: Longman, 1809).

8°; Parker engraved at least one of the 24 plates after Smirke.[65] Parker's work must of course have been finished at least four years earlier.