Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
A bound volume of 32 Napoleonic broadsides, all good impressions, suggesting they were ordered directly from a publisher, possibly from James Asperne who is well represented in the collection and who perhaps made a trade in offering collections of the broadsides to contemporary collectors. Also well presented are broadsides by John Ginger
Alternative Title:
Patriotic handbills
Description:
In English., Title from dealer's description., Bound in 19th-century calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label with "Patriotic Handbills" and green morocco label with the number "II"; a sheet of writing paper bound in before the broadsides has a watermark "G. Langley 1856". With a manuscript note on the blank verso of the final broadside that states "Patriotic Handbills Packet II / I have duplicates of each bill.", With two copies of: Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte., With two copies of: Britons triumph, or, Bonaparte's knell., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
multiple publishers
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, and History
A fashion plate showing the figure of a woman in an afternoon or half dress, wearing a head-dress with a large toupee frizzed into light curls and wreathed with white flowers. The robe and petticoat of striped muslin and braided in back and tied at the waist with a belt. The robe is trimmed with last at the neck and wrists
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from the October 1794 issue of: Heideloff, N. Gallery of fashion., and "Fig. 26."--Top of image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs October 1, 1794, by N. Neideloff, at the Gallery of Fashion Office
A fashion plate showing the figure of a woman in an evening dress, wearing a turban decorated with ostrich feathers and several diamonds. Her robe is scallopped as are the short sleeves; the robe is trimmed round the neck with lace. She wears large pearl earrings, a diamond necklace and large gold upper bracelets
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Appears in the March 1796 issue of: Heideloff, N. Gallery of fashion., and "Fig. 90."--Top of image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs October 1, 1794, by N. Neideloff, at the Gallery of Fashion Office
Attributed to Horace Walpole in the British Museum catalogue. Now known not to have been created by Walpole or printed at Strawberry Hill. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Horace Walpole, page 173 and his Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, pages 145-148., A set of cards with moral maxims printed on fronts and backs in black and red ink: e.g., "Poverty is the fruit of idleness, Small griefs are loud, great ones still ...", All engraved with decorative border., and Imperfect set: one card lacking and printed leaf of Explanation. For further information, consult library staff.