Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist we...
"George IV sits fishing under a little pavilion; his rod is a sceptre, larger than that in Britis Museum Satires No. 15126. He has hooked a frog, which Lady Conyngham, kneeling beside him, is about to scoop with a landing-net. She says: Oh what a beau...
Description:
Title etched below.
Publisher:
Pubd. June, 1826 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Virginia Water (England : Lake), and Windsor Great Park (England),
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the fo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the fo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A coat of arms, divided into three parts, with a lion in the top portion and a fleur-de-lis in the bottom portion. At the helm, flanked by mantling, is the helmet of a knight. Atop the helmet is an eagle. Below the crest is the motto Spero.
A shield, edged with leafing, and divided into two halves. Each half presents a gules field divided by an argent bend with three waterfowl upon it. In the upper right hand is the head of a unicorn. At the helm, surrounded by fancy leafing, is a knight...
Subject (Name):
Marsden, Alexander (Alexander Edwin), 1832-1902
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates,, Birds, Helmet, Physicians, Shield, Shields, and Unicorn
