A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 17, 1766.
Call Number:
Topos N878 no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
A view of Dilston Hall with its grounds, gardens, and river in foreground. On the far end of the bridge over the river on the right sits a woman with her back to the viewer; a man with a cane walks past her. Other figures in the foreground include a fisherman with a dog addressing a man with a raised cane and a dog at his heels; a woman with a hat appears to have a kerchief to her eye as she views the two men. In the right foreground a woman sits on the grass with child standing in front of her. In the left foreground another two men with walking sticks converse, one has a dog. A poem engraved in three columns below the image laments the death of the Earl
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate signed below image., and Verses below image begin: How mournful feeble nature's tone, when Dilston-Hall appears ...
Publisher:
Drawn on the spot by Thos. Oliver of Hexham in Northumberland, & published according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
England, Northumberland., and England.
Subject (Name):
Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, Earl of, 1689-1716 and Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Castles & palaces, Jacobites, and Estates
Surprising negro from the Gold Coast and To the virtuosi in anatomy and to all lovers of natural curiosities
Description:
At head of title: To the virtuosi in anatomy and to all lovers of natural curiosities. There is now to be seen at Mr. Symes's Peruke-maker, opposite the Mews Wall, Charing-Cross., Caption title., and Date of publication based on the advertisement's reference to the 4 December 1751 meeting of the Royal Society.
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Verse begins: "Lord Thomas he was a bold forester,"., Mounted on leaf 72. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords
Caption title., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: Miss Pure, a very neat and clean-heeled Filly, from Black Mary's Hole, near London ..., A broadside with a simple woodcut above the title, advertising the services and skills of woman, Miss Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Diana Trapes, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce, and Lucy Pleasant., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Silvester, Richard William, 1769 or 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1800 and 1820]
Call Number:
800.00.00.106+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Trade card with all engraved text and with large (64 x 166 mm) engraved illustration at top showing aviaries and menagerie surrmounted by a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
James Pilton's manufactory, King's Road, Chelsea, Middx. ...
Description:
Title engraved above image., Text below image continues: ... establish'd under the distinguished patronage of their Majesties & Royal Family. Pleasure ground fences on an improv'd principle, ... wrought iron gates, ..., libraries ..., hot houses, conservatories, & all kinds of horticultural buildings ..., menageries, ... as also stock’d with all kinds of pheasants, poultry & water fowl ..., awnings, varandahs, alcoves & summer retreats, aviaries, pheasantries & dove cotes, ... The warehouse No. 204, Piccadilly, London, near St. James's Church ..., Date from the years that James Pilton was active: ca. 1800-1820. See British Musem online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant trade card of James Pilton, using the same illustration but varying in text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,85.238., and Window mounted to 44 x 33 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., and On leaf 98 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells Hollands, Irish & Scotch linnens, muslins, callicoes, dowlas, Silesias, long strip'd & flower'd lawns, printed & strip'd cottons & linnens, Manchester & London made checks, with all other sorts of linnen drapery., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 40 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.