Caption title., Letterpress with woodcut illustration., A illustrated broadside printed on silk., With an image of a woman weeping at a tombstone enscribed with the words "Great Britain's Queen, the injured Caroline., Around the border, following the title: Minister! go hang thyself in justice to mankind, for if after this, you die by the ordinary course of Nature, all honest men will be disgraced by sharing even a common death with you., In verse., First line: Hark! - whence proceeds that awful sound ..., and In a contemporary (or early) gilt wood frame, 19 x 16 cm, hanging hook at top; likely framed for domestic display. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Engraved broadside with an etching at top and two columns of verse below., The verse begins: Since moderation is so much in vogue ..., and Unidentified contemporary signature in upper left corner on verso.
Caption title above woodcut., Date range conjectural., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., In this setting line 24 begins with "and"., Mounted on leaf 51. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
Description:
Title from beginning of letterpress text., Portraits at top have the engraved captions "Princess Charlotte" and "Prince Leopold.", Biographical details immediately above lower border., "Price one shilling."--Below lower border., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
published not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Morrison, Bewley Wynne, active 1750-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of upholstery & cabinet goods, viz. four-post and other bedsteads ... furnitures ... chairs, dining, card & other tables, chests fo drawers ... looking glasses ... Wilton & other carpets ... Painted window blinds, paper hangings, & all sorts of household furniture ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 130 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 140 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 141 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
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.
A layout using letterpress showing the interior of Westminster Hall, layed out for the trial of William Lord Byron for killing William Chaworth in a duel; trial was held in April 1765
Description:
Caption title. and Publication date based on date of the trial.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England). and Byron, William Byron, Baron, 1722-1798