Volume 2, page 34. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady nurses a sleeping baby while another older girl approaches from the left; an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 34 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
Two oval images printed against a patterned background with a stylized floral border. The image on the top shows Tippoo Sahib's wife, mother of his two sons as she kneels outside a tent on a rug; she embraces her one son as the other son stands behind him. Tipu Sultan stands in the background with a woman servant(?). In the image below, the young boy his handed over by his father (left) to Cornwallis (right) with the British camp in the background. Soldiers flank Cornwallis; the Sultan is attend by two of his men. The title of the top image is engraved in a legend on the left; the legend on the right continues the title of the image on the bottom
Alternative Title:
Tippoo Sahib's two sons taking leave of their mother and Tippoo Sahib's two sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis
Description:
Titles from legends to the left and right of the images., Print is modder on calico?, After two mezzotints published originally by Robert Sayer & Co., in London in 1792 or by Laurie & Whittle and published 12th May, 1794., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799. and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, Children, Hostages, Military camps, British, Mothers, and Prisoner exchanges
Before a tent with a throne inside, Tippoo Sahib's wife, mother of his two sons, kneels on a rug; she embraces her one son as the other son stands behind him. Tipu Sultan stands in the background with a woman servant(?).
Alternative Title:
Tippoo Sahib's two sons taking leave of their mother
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in lower left below image: 286., Numbered in lower right corner: (Plate 1)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799. and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, Children, Hostages, Mothers, and Prisoner exchanges
"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow basket slung from the hip. A child clings to her shoulders; a little girl (left) with a small basket also offers him a bunch. Two young courtesans lean from a first-floor window. In the background (right), behind a spiked gate, are trees and a large house (or houses)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Watercresses, come buy my watercresses
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Children, City & town life, Mothers, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Vegetables, and Women
Title from item., Date derived from dates of World War II. The first evacuation of children from British cities was in 1939., Below title: Your help is wanted. See your local billeting officer now!, Below image: Issued by the Ministry of Health., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office and J. Weiner Ltd. London, W.C.I. 51-22.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Children, Evacuation of civilians, Mothers, and Correspondence
Wash drawing depicting a plainly dressed woman holding the hand of her small child while buying goods from a street vendor. The vendor is scooping goods from a large portage basket strapped to his horse and weighing the purchase in a two pan beam balance scale
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Drawing dated from Bruce Robertson's The art of Paul Sandby,1985, fig. 121.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Children, Mothers, Scales, and Street vendors
Collaert, Hans, approximately 1530-1581, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1581]
Call Number:
Print00938
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and See: Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etching, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 4-23.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Maternity nursing, Child care, Infants, Mothers, Children, Nurses, and Eating & drinking
In the waiting room of a busy children's clinic, mothers look after children in varied states of distress, boredom, and restlessness. A male doctor with a stethoscope tries to examine a crying baby held by its mother, while a nurse stands nearby. In the background, another doctor looks into the waiting room from an examination room where a child sits
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Published by American Artists Group, New York., Edition of ca. 200 for the American Artists group., and "Mabel Dwight" in pencil at lower right.
Publisher:
American Artists Group
Subject (Topic):
Pediatric clinics, Physicians, Nurses, Children, Mothers, and Waiting rooms