"Bird's eye view over Vauxhall Gardens, with figures surrounding bandstand and the Prince of Wales's pavillion in centre, triumphal arches at right and supper boxes at either side of the gardens, the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room' at extreme left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
General prospect of Vauxhall Gardens and Vüe d'etaillee des Jardins de Vaux Hall
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate. For an earlier state published in 1751 by John Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5465., Date of publication based on that of earlier state. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "128" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),, England, and London.
An anti-Napoleon broadside including an engraved, cartographic bust of Napoleon above two columns of letterpress in Dutch, German, English and French. The face of Napoleon is formed of carcases of war victims: on the collar are waves of the sea; a "hand" is placed as the epaulet while on the cuff is 'R' (for Regent), round the wrist 'Honi Soit ', on the fingers are the letters 'A', 'R', 'P', 'S', 'E' (for the Allies). A drawing the Rhenish Confedracy [sic] under the flimsy symbol of the cobweb: and the "spider" is a symbolic emblem of the vigilance of the Allies
Description:
Title from letterpress caption above text., The name "Napoleon" appears four times below image, above each section in Dutch, English, French, and German. Text in English begins: The first, and last, by the wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins ..., Engraved image of Napoleon: plate mark 22.7 x 15.9 cm., The satirical Napoleon portrait is a copy of the original by Voltz; Cf. No. 12177 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Place and date of publication based on English-language version of the print published in London by Ackermann in 1814; Cf. No. 12202 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Date based on time period (1746-1755) when Canaletto worked in England and produced the original painting., Text below English title: N.B. This building is esteem'd the most perfect and finest piece of Gothic architecture now remaining in Europe., Text below French title: Cet edifice est regardé comme le plus beau monument d'architecture gothique qui soit en Europe., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.