Two images. On the left, two drunk characters comment on 'people' not going home sober. On the right, a young boy is about to be beaten with a walking stick by an elder man whose clothing catches fire from the boy's misdirected torch
Description:
Title from text (dialogue) above each image., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series: Borders for rooms. Designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Lewis Walpole Library: First image only, mounted together with three other images from other Borders plates., and Numbered on top '155' in contemporary hand.
Two images. On the left, two drunk characters comment on 'people' not going home sober. On the right, a young boy is about to be beaten with a walking stick by an elder man whose clothing catches fire from the boy's misdirected torch
Description:
Title from text (dialogue) above each image., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series: Borders for rooms. Designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Lewis Walpole Library: First image only, mounted together with three other images from other Borders plates., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 10 x 9 cm., and Mounted to 27 x 22 cm, together with two other images from other Bordes plates.
Volunteers settling about pedigree and precendence
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two images, side by side, on one plate., Four lines of verse in two columns: O say British youths is it valor you boast , why then fly unanimity's charms, pray tell us contenders, were foes on our coast, would your enmity strenghten our arms., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Portsmouth Volunteer Corps -- Military uniforms: Portsmouth Volunteer Corps -- Shovels: counting houses shovels -- Buildings: breweries -- Counting house clerks -- Latrines -- Brewer's counting houses -- Puns -- Expressions: It is not all gold that glitters -- Furnishings: rugs., and Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octobr. 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box VI | Folder P.B. VI / 106-110
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Description:
A Grave Poem, as it was presented in Latin by certayne Devyn[es] ... by way of interlude before his his majesty at Cambridge [?] Liber novus de Adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam. Faythfullie done into English and with some liberal advantage made rather to be songe than read. To the tune of Bonny Nell.
Titles from captions below images., Printmaker and date of publication from later print in series., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaflet advertising the Northern Pacifics route from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest, including schedules of trains, land for sale, and connecting stagecoaches.
Publisher:
Rand, McNally & Co., Printers
Subject (Name):
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Territory., Montana., Washington (State), and West (U.S.)
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: For November 1827. To be continued every month., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.