Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1807 and 1812?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 4 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title written below image in artist's hand. and Original cited in the 1784 Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole: "Miss Temple, maid of honor to Anne Hyde duchess of York, and second wife of Sir Charles Lyttelton; by Spencer, after the unfinished picture by Cooper, in the possession of Lord Lyttelton." See the description of the contents of the Blue breakfast room, p. 20."
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, Anne Temple, Lady, -1718, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait seated almost whole-length slightly to left and reading at table, head turned to face right; wearing dark suit, frill and ruffles and his hair powdered and curled."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of similar composition
Description:
Title from facsimile signature below image. and Printmaker, artist, imprint, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Originally pub. Leipzig, 1720, with title: Historische und geographische Beschreibung ... Cf. Sabin no. 32104. and Portrait of John Law, and folded map inserted at front. Map has title: Louisiana am Fluss Missisippi [!]; from the German translation of John Lawson's Carolina, Hamburg, 1712? - Cf. Winsor, The Kohl collection, p. 112.
Publisher:
J.F. Gleditschens seel. sohn,
Subject (Geographic):
Louisiana--History--To 1803 and Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Griffiths, Julia, d. 1895 Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Published / Created:
1854
Call Number:
Za Em34 854
Image Count:
1
Description:
"In commending this, the second volume of "The autographs for freedom," ... "The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made ... by the cause to which the book is devoted"--Preface. 'Second volume' probably refers to an 1853 publication of the same title, also edited under the auspices of The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, but published by J.P. Jewett in Boston. The contents of each work are unique, although some of the authors are the same., "On freedom" [poem] by R.W. Emerson, p. [235]-236; "A day ... at Playford Hall," by H.B. Stowe, p. [277]-303., "Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 216 William St., N.Y."--Title page verso., A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile., and Edited "on behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society"--P. vi.
Publisher:
Alden, Beardsley & Co. ; and Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Topic):
Antislavery movements--United States and Slavery--United States