Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1843?]
Call Number:
843.00.00.50+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Numbered above title: No. 93., Temporary local subject terms: Holiday greetings -- Christmas., and Window mounted to 50 x 36 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout; illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below., Opening words: When charming Cloe gently walks ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Outdoor scenes -- Architectural details: fountain -- Follies: garden temple -- Female dress, ca. 1750.
Title and artist's attribution from ms. inscription in the printmaker's hand. Unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title, artist's attribution, and date in ms. added to print in the hand of the printmaker: Thomas Howell Jones.
"A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
"Scene on a road near St. Pancras church, which is visible in the background; two women and two men stand in road, one woman with her arms tied and a look of anguish on her face, the other woman raises her arm as one of the men points towards her; illustration to Johnson's 'History of ... Highwaymen"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., 'Page 120.'--Upper left corner of plate., The fictional character, Colonel Jack, is the hero of Defoe's The history and remarkable life of the truly honorable Col. Jacque ... (1722)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: countermark H.
In an open landscape, an elegantly dressed Columbine is seated on a rock and taking a pinch of snuff from a large snuffbox. Her head is turned back slightly towards Harlequin who stands behind her gesturing dramatically
Alternative Title:
Harlequin
Description:
Title engraved below image., Dated by costume., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. What would'st thou have fonr Harlequin? ... Harlequin. My charmer all I mean is love ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 17 cm, window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
In an open landscape, Harlequin is sitting on a rock, holding a little boy across his lap and whipping his bare bottom with a birch rod. Columbine, coming up from behind them, tries to intervene
Alternative Title:
Harlequin
Description:
Title from item., Dated based on another print in this series: Columbine. Harlequin., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of most of the plate number in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. Will whipping ever mend a child? ... Harlequin. Pray hold yr. tongue how shoud you know ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Title etched below item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly a later copy of a print of the similar title by James Gillray, first published April 8, 1800 by H. Humphrey. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9591., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.