"Reclining figure of St Mary Magdalene, reading a book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.144., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Note in pencil in lower right corner: In the cabinet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Printmaker is either Surugue or anonymous., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy, à l'entrée de la rue des Noyers attenant le Magasin de Papier APDR
Subject (Topic):
Symbolism in medicine, Staff of Aesculapius, Staffs (Sticks)., Snakes, and Allegories
Title from item. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez Daumont rue St. Martin
Subject (Topic):
Pumping stations, Rivers, Bridges, and Carriages & coaches
"A man spying through a key-hole at a lady in a bath is squirted with water in the eye by her maid."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title and numbering, imprint, statement of responsibility and dimensions from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Signed "G de Cari" in design, on the wall in the lower right., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 22 November 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1982,U.1215., and Sheet trimmed within design with loss of left portion of the image (lady in the bath), the imprint statement, and series title and numbering. Title mounted below.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet Libre., rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Bathrooms, Curiosity, Lust, Water guns, and Women domestics
Halbou, Louis Michel, 1730-approximately 1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1784]
Call Number:
Print10091
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication from item., Below title are eight lines of verse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:
chez Ouvrier Graveur Place Maubert chez un Md. Bonnetier au Soleil d'Or
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Women in medicine, Drugs, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, Children, and Medals
Titles etched below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in lower right corner of plate: Déposé a la Bibliotheque Nationale., One line of text under each title: Bonsoir, ma petite amie, je vais au bal, je vous souhaite autant de plaisir qu'a moi., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion: French fashion -- Female dress: ball gown -- Mothers -- Children -- Nurses -- Toys: blocks -- Harlequin doll -- Punishment: birch rod -- Fireplaces -- Architectural details: walls with decorative borders -- Wood floor -- Clocks -- Containers: vases., and Plate numbered '166' above image in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Chez Bance, rue St. Denis, No. 175, près celle aux Ours
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez I. Mariette rue St. Jacques aux Colonnes d'Hercule
Title etched below image., Date derived from subject., Place of publication from item., In margin lower right: Déposée à la Bibliothèque Natale., In margin upper right: No.13., Eight lines of verse about vaccination vs. inoculation are on either side of title., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Inoculation controversy; Infectious diseases.
Publisher:
chez Dépeuille Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux Pilastres d'Or
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Vaccination, Smallpox vaccine, Quacks and quackery, France, Foreign relations, Anti-vaccination movement, Carriages, Cows, Horses, Medicine shows, Soldiers, Children, Turkeys, Dogs, and Spectators
An emaciated women sits in a bed playing cards. Her clothes and sheets have tears and holes; the wallpaper is falling off the walls. Under her bed is a used chamber pot and to the left a table with shoes and an umbrella. An elegant coat, dress, and hat suggest better times. A letter on the foreground (right) is addressed: [illegible] CC. Madame de [illegible] rue de Richelieu no. 39.
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on number 31 in this series, which was listed listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 3 June 1820., Series title and numbering etched above image., Printmaker's name etched on table (left) in image: G. de Cari., Between title and subtitle: "Ils sont passés ces jours de fêtes, Ils ne reviendront plus.", and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice