A man, whose face shows an expression of both fear and surprise, holds a lantern up to a gown hanging on a clothesline. The gown appears to have a human face with a snarling expression
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., In ink lower left: Drawing by I. Cruikshank., Basis for print published as: A gown metamorphose'd into a ghost!!., See description in British Museum's Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, v. 7, No. 9124., Isaac Cruikshank, English caricaturist and painter, 1756?-1811?., and For further information, consult library staff.
Watercolor drawing that provides a view from the back window of a house on the west side of St Martin’s Lane and shows the buildings running behind St Martin’s Lane. Identifiable on the right of the image is the building occupied by the bookseller John Noble, as Sandby has included his shop sign, a bust of Dryden, placed over his door and a trade sign advertising his circulating library. In the projecting bay-window to the right of the composition, a man can be seen at work
Description:
Title and date from dealer's description. and See Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, Recent Acquisitions, 2019/2020, pp. 46-49. fuller description and history.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Cityscape drawings, Neighborhood, Signs (Notices), and Stores & shops
Title from dealer's description., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Inscribed on verso: Names of the Ships taken by Lord Howe on 1st of June 1794, and brought into Portsmouth Harbour; Sans Pareille 84 Guns, L'America 74, Limpetue 84, Northumberland 84, Achille 76, La Vengeur 74.
Subject (Geographic):
Portsmouth (England)
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799.
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Harbors, Warships, British, French, Crowds, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Peg legs, and Victories
A light infantryman dressed in full uniform executes a motion with his flintlock musket. The caption from the published plate reads: ... the right hand slides back to the small of the stock holding it with the three last fingers & keeping the cartridge upright between the forefinger & thumb
Description:
Title from print later published in a volme by Rowlandson., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Questionable attribution to Henry Keene (1726-1776), architect and surveyor., and For further information, consult library staff.
Full-length portait depicting Moses Kean imitating actor John Henderson in the grave scene in Hamlet. A picture on the wall behind Moses contains a likeness of the original scene with Henderson in the same character and attitude. Kean is directed right, head facing left wearing a tricorn hat; he has a wooden leg and arms outstrected to right hold a handkerchief
Alternative Title:
Moses Kean as Hamlet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Printed clipping pasted to mount and dated 'Nov. 4 [18]26' in contemporary ms. hand: The late Moses Kean was a tailor, a stout-built man, with black bushy hair, and a wooden leg ... He was a very extraordinary mimic, particularly in imitation of C.J. Fox, which he gave occassionally at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. Mr. Edmund Kean, the celebrated actor, owes his education to the above person, wo was his uncle. -Nollekens and his Times., Copy of an 18th century etching titled Mr. Kean's imitation of Henderson's Hamlet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Moses, -1792,, Henderson, John, 1747-1785, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Portrait drawings, Actors, Imitation, Peg legs, and Handkerchiefs
Album of ca. 22 watercolors by Maria Sybilla Merian, of insects, reptiles, and fish probably done on the European continent (Germany or Netherlands), along with a collection of other watercolors by several artists, signed and unsigned, including a portrait of Dr. Mead and Dr. Misaubin surgeon, drawn by William Hogarth and a drawing by George Perfect Harding. Also included: Palace of the Rajah of Tassisudon / copied by M. Griffiths Junr. 1798; Back of Gibraltar Hills / W. Booth delin, ALS from Horace Walpole to Richard Bull dated 1784 July 14, thanking him for the loan of some books including this collection of drawings by Maria Merian which he describes as "very fine"., and Also laid in are various verses in Richard Bull's hand including a poem in memory of Catherine Bull and a narrative on Queen Caroline; a poem in French, "Address by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte" [later published as Les Adieux by S̀̀ègur].
Alternative Title:
Bull's album of drawings
Description:
Title devised by curator., Album contains 402 pages, alternating white and blue sheets. Nothing laid in after p. 211., Ms. notes in Richard Bull's hand., Binding: Red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings.", Disassembled, some items matted and stored in 5 solander boxes. Original binding shelved separately., and When the album was digitized, blank pages were not scanned; original page location, however, is recorded which explains the gaps in the paginatioin in the virtual browse view. For further information, consult library staff.
A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
Alternative Title:
Miscellaneous heads
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date from Draper Hill., and A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.