Berghe, Ignatius Joseph van den, 1752-1824, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1799]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Lozenges of Steel
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,2.3513., Engraved text providing an "Explanation of the emblematical print" is printed on verso: The figure on the right hand represents Infirmity, to whose assistance Medicine comes & points to the remedy inscribed on the Altar of Health., Below explanation on verso is printed a 17-line engraved advertisement: "Lozenges of Steel," a medicine possessed of the most extraordinary powers in the cure of those diseases which are occasion'd by intemperance, excess, and impropitious climate ... are prepared only by Dr. Senate, late of Soho Square, and sold at Mr. Pidding's Medicine Ware-House, No. 76 Oxford Street ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by cataloger., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with loss of all text apart from the tradesman's last name "Allen" just below image and the word "Hand" from the next line down., and On leaf 133 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
A collection of hand-drawn transformation playing cards using the suit symbols incorporated in the sketches of people in a variety of scenes, some clearly English, others continental. Two examples are a fireside scene illustrating a mother and child (and two others) seated in front of a fireplace with a hanging cauldron, and an illustration of an amorous couple enjoying a dance as a violinist plays stage left. The cards depict both black and white characters, all of whom are wealthy or of high status, including soldiers, bishops, and men and women in fashionable dress. At the top of one card above the head of a man who reads from a sheet as he addresses a woman who looks down demurely, are the words "Mio ben.". On the verso of two cards are inscriptions in English. The first shows a figure in Shakespearean-era costume on the front and on the back, a quote from Twelfth night (Act II, Scene 5): "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” A second shows a couple sitting across from each other with an empty table between and on the back three stanzas from William Cowper’s The Diverting History of John Gilpin, first published in 1782
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and In a later envelope inscribed 'Mlle. de Bernardy' and 'N. Anderson'.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
BEIN AUS91: Imperfect: 2 of Cups wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamps on King of Coins, black: KARTEN SIGIL HOCHF SALZPURGIS / [heraldic device] and on Ace of Batons, black: S. / KARTEN., Aces: AB: ZU FINDEN BEI IOSE / PH TRAUNWI / SER; AC, eagle perched on cup., and Pipcards: 2S: SALZBURG / [heraldic device].
BEIN AUS89: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamp on 7 of Coins, black: [asymmetrical cartouche] / AS / 7X., Ace of Batons: N.S.; Ace of Coins, lion's head; Ace of Cups, eagle., King of Cups: I.A., and 2 of Swords, woman plays lute.
BEIN AUS76: Imperfect: AB, K, JS; JB; K, JD; C, JC; 9B; 2D; 8, 7C wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamp on 7 of Coins, black: [asymmetrical cartouche] K / 7X., 2 of Swords: 1 / [cross] / I / [heraldic device]., and Ace of Cups, eagle: CLAGENE.
Title supplied by translator., Date derived from similarity to Poster0286., In image: [insignia of military government of Korea] MG-P-20., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK)
Artist's trial proof of a steel engraving with corrections of the head and further alterations drawn in pencil and pen and ink directly over the steel engraving. The engraving shows a man wearing a karakul and smoking a hookah
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Corrective notes inscribed in graphite pencil next to drawing: The eyes brighter darker the brow[?] a different shape., and For further information, consult library staff.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the second edition published May 21, 1761., Location in volume lacking in this second plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Entering from the left, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from Paulson., From Paulson: The plate ... appeared in the first edition published January 28, 1761., "Vol. 4 Page 112"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on page near grouping: For these plates to Tristram Shandy, see Mr. Nichols's book 3rd edition, p. 372 & 374, 375., and On page 186 in volume 2.