Scene in a restaurant: a female servant is delivering a dish to a flirtatious diner who is stroking her chin while a male servant excitedly delivers a menu to a second male diner. A massive painting of a grain harvesting scene adorns the wall in the background
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image., Date from note inscribed in graphite pencil below caption., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait drawing of Ferdinand Magellan; bust length, turned slightly right; with a long dark beard; wearing a black hat and a red shirt with gold buttons
Description:
Title lettered in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with one other drawing on page 81 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
A collage with a wash drawing depicting native people of Mexico on a hillside with the sky above, mounted in the center of which is an engraving of a view of a walled city surrounded by a river, the arrangement giving the impression that the two drawn figures are looking out over a valley at the settlement in the distance below them. A couple prominent in the left foreground, stand in front of a tree; the man faces the viewer and wears a feathered headdress and loin cloth; the spear in his right hand rests on his right shoulder; the shield in his left hand is propped up against the ground. The woman with her back to the viewer, wears a sleeveless top, a skirt, and sandals; her long hair falls past her waist; food items are visible within the basket she carries in the crook of her right arm. Two other figures work in the clearing below
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from associated engravings mounted in the same extra-illustrated volume, many of which were published in London in the eighteenth century., and Mounted on page 134 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
The body of conspirator Miles Sindercombe being dragged by a horse towards the gallows, under which a hole in the ground is visible. A group of soldiers carrying pikes and axes is seen in the background; the horse is led by a man with a whip
Alternative Title:
Miles Sindercombe having murdered himself was drawn upon Tower Hill ...
Description:
Title etched below image. and Approximate date of publication supplied by curator.
Double portrait of the physicians Jean Misaubin and Richard Mead, half-length, sitting together at a table
Description:
Title from notes below image in Richard Bull's hand., Artist's name written in lower right, probably also in Richard Bull's hand., Date supplied by curator., Formerly laid in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734 and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
"Singers in a window; night scene with six peasants seen through a four-panelled window, one holding a candle and leaning through a window in top right corner, another holding a song sheet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
My rival Dick has married Kate
Description:
Title from the first line of verse., Traces of burnished text, possibly an earlier imprint or printmaker's name, below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: My rival Dick has marry'd Kate And laughs at me for having mist her ..., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: 'Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?', '"I created it."', 'Created it friend?', '"Yea verily - for I said, "Let it be made, and it was made!!'.
Description:
Title from caption inscribed at bottom of design in black ink., Date based on published etching with this design, same title, and text: Pubd. Apl. 1830, by S. Gan's Southampton St. See British Museum online catalog. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
At the edge of a small pond, a mallard duck (left) formally dressed in a morning coat and top hat flaps his wings at a female turkey (right) wearing a shawl and bonnet. She looks back over her shoulder at him with a coy expression
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., and For further information, consult library staff.
View of Tashicho Dzong, the fortress of the Deb Rejah in the Thimpu valley. On the right is the Deb's villa atop a low hill; below the villa flows the Thimphu River. Several smaller structures are visible between the villa and the river bank
Description:
Title lettered in ink below image., Statement of responsibility written ink in below image, in lower left., Place of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in at page 123 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.