Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Plate is a frontispiece to Moyse Charas, Pharmacopée royale, galenique, et chymique. It was first published in 1676., Depicted are allegorical figures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America bringing their riches to Pharmacopeia. Aloe and potatoes are represented on the plinths in the foreground., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
From the description of the Breakfast Room in the 1784 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole: "Madame la marquise de Deffand and the duchesse de Choiseul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind, holds out her hand to receive; alluding to her calling the ducess Grand Mamam ...by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging to the Duke of Orleans .. a washed drawing." See p. 26.
Description:
Title from ms. note in ink below image., After the Carmontelle watercolor that hung in the Breakfast room at Strawberry Hill and sold at the Strawberry Hill sale eleventh day, lot 111., and Date based on the correspondence between Walpole and Du Deffand. See Yale edition of the correspondence, vol. 4.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,
In order to preserve one's health, cleanliness is required
Description:
Title and publisher from item., Date derived from illustration style., In lower margin: Centre Interdépartemental d'Éducation Sanitaire, Démographique et Sociale., and Additional poster text and illustrations encourage keeping one's self, clothing, food, and residence clean.
Publisher:
Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population and Imp. Helio-Cachan
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Health, Food, Safety measures, Children, Bathing, Laundry, and Cookery
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Indians, South America; Folk Medicine.
Publisher:
J. Grasset St. Sauveur inv. direx
Subject (Geographic):
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile).
Subject (Topic):
Traditional medicine, Indians of South America, Plants, Scythes, Priests, and Shamans
Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
Description:
In French., Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736., Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Title etched below image., Date from copy in British Museum., Place of publication derived from language of text., In margin bottom: Gravé d'apres le Tableau Original Peint par Vatteau de même grandeur qui est dans la Gallerie de S.E. Mgr. Le Comte de Bruhl Chevalier de l'Ordre de l'Aigle Blanc ..., Description from British Museum catalogue: A sick man trying to escape a group of physicians; some of them are carrying clysters and threatening him, while another on the left is washing his hands., Below image are eight lines of verse., In margin lower right: No. 35., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and Soiled, stained, discolored. 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Irrigation (Medicine)., Sick persons, Physicians, Medical equipment, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title and publishers from item., Date from other posters in campaign., Inscription: SIDA. Aujourd'hui, on peut faire beaucoup. Mais riens sans vous. Cette campaign de prévention et d'information est réalisée à l'initiative du Ministère de la sante, de la famille et des personnes handicapées ; INPS, Institut National de Prévention et d'Education pour la Santé., In margin upper left: Australie R.C.S. Nanterre B 318 827 102 - Réf.: 13-02244-A., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité - Secrétariat d'état à la sante et à l'action sociale ; Comité français d'éducation pour la santé and 1998
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS (Disease)., Condoms, and Safe sex in AIDS prevention
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In image: C., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Digestion, Eliminative behavior, Servants, Men, Toilets, Dogs, and Cats
