A view of Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After a design by Canaletto. For an engraving of the same scene in reverse, published by Robert Sayer in 1752, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2450
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View of the canal, Chinese building, rotunda, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with masquerade, Vüe du canal, du batiment chinois, de la rotunda, &c. des Jardins de Ranelagh, un jour de masquarade, and Masquerade angloise
Description:
Title etched below image., Additional title "Masquerade angloise" at top of plate, etched as a mirror image., Signed in lower right corner with an illegible printmaker's signature., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., A 'vuë d'optique', designed to be viewed through an optical viewer that gives a sense of depth perspective; the scene is reversed, as is the additional title at top., Manuscript number "9" written in ink at bottom of sheet, centered., Mounted on board., and Windows of the rotunda in image cut out by hand and inset with hand-painted multi-color inserts, which appear illuminated when a light is held from behind.
Series of 6 cards, with only the last card numbered. Title appears only on the first card. The narrative captions argue for the right of women to act as advocates and complain about the removal of the crucifix from the courtroom, as required by a law of Dec. 9, 1905, separating church and state
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Postcards depicting a woman dressed in legal attire and posing in various settings and Legally themed postcards depicting a woman dressed in legal attire and posing in various settings
Description:
Date from postmark., Postcard include manuscript notes. Postcards no. [1], [3], [4], [5] are addressed to "Madame Jeanne Brondy" and no. 6 to "Mademoiselle Valentine Bidaulb.", "Carte Postale, a puliser seulement dans le regime interieur (France, Algerie et Tunisie)"--Printed verso of postcards. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281769, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.13 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on creation date of the original painting., "Galrie. Histque. de Versailles"--Upper left corner., "Sie. VI, son. 3"--Upper right corner., "Diagraphe et pantograph-Gavard"--Lower right corner., and Plate numbered "723" above image, centered.
A political cartoon with 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 "La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français", a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding "Correspondance de Mr. Draque - Ambassadeur de la Cour Britannique &c. &c." Those accused of participating in the conspiracy are: no. 2 "Le Prince de Galles" (possibly the Prince of Wales), no. 3 "Parti de l'Opposition", no. 4 "Le Comte d'Artois" (Charles X), no. 5 "Lord Windham", no. 6 "Lord Moira", no. 7 "Lord King", no. 8 "Mr. Vic-Kam", no. 9 "Lord With Wurth", no. 10 "Mr. Pitt", no. 11 "Mr. Drake", no. 12 "Mr. Adington", no. 13 "Le Général Limcol", no. 14 "Mr. Francis", no. 15 "Milord Cathcart", no. 16 "Monsieur, Frère du Roi de France" (Louis XVIII), no. 17 "Spencer Smith", no. 18 "Lord How Kersbury", no. 19 "Le Duc de Cambridge", no. 20 "Charlotte Reine d'Angleterre", no. 21 "Géorges III Roi d'Angleterre", no. 22 "Le Duc d'York" (Prince Frederick Augustus), no. 23 "Lord Windham", no. 24 "Le Comte de Darmouth", no. 25 "Le Duc de Portland", no. 26 "Sidney Smith", no. 27 "Sir Lucas Pepys", no. 28 "Mr. Canning", no. 29 "Fitz Williams", no. 30 "Lord Walsingham", no. 31 "Lord Nelson Admiral", no. 32 "L'amiral Duc Woeth", no. 33 "Mr. Tierney", no. 34 "Le Prince de Conde", no. 35 "Lord Malmesbury", no. 36 "Milord Harrowby", no. 37 "Mr. F. Millman", no. 38 "Heberden", no. 39 "Lord Grandville", no. 40 "Mr. Carnawon", no. 41 "Mr. Carlole", and no. 42 "Sir Robert Taulay."
Description:
Title from item. and Includes key with corresponding numbers identifying the persons depicted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, National emblems, French, Roosters, Conspiracy, Enemies, and Faces
Two elaborate hairstyles, that on the left, shown from the back, a gentleman with a wig having side curls and braids which join together and are tied in a wreath-like arrangement. The woman on the right is shown in profile, her head in a large cap, on the band of which are shown the signs of the zodiac, while stars are affixed to her hair above the forehead
Alternative Title:
A la zodiaque
Description:
Title from item., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 14 x 21 cm.
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed at bottom with loss of imprint.
Title from text above image., Publication information from unverified data in local card catalog record., Caption below image: Encore un dégré de perfection., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from Minto Wilson's note a mat (removed)., Nine lines of text in two columns below image: Pie six par l'operation du belle esprit nayant pu obtenir de Joseph II ..., Two lines of caption above image: Un des artificers de monte Cavallo ayant laissé tomber ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Place of publication inferred from printmaker nationality., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms.