Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Description:
Title from inscription below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in :Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1797]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing clerical dress and cap
Alternative Title:
Benedict XIV
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Possibly drawn from a wax model kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 58 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Fougeron, Ignace, active 18th century-19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1762]
Call Number:
Print20010
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Below title: habitu Corporis Giganteo, jam octo opedum dimensionem nactus, Parentibus comunis mensure ortus, annos natus., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Giantism., and Tear through center crease (R). Edge tears (R). 2x2.
Trade card for Thomas Obbinson from Sleaford Lincolnshire England, seller of teas, coffee, and, presumably, tobacco, depicts an enthroned American Indian smoking a long pipe. To his left side, a small Indian child fills a wooden barrel with leaves, another overturned barrel at his feet. In the background on the right are two sailing ships, one with the rigging up, the other at anchor, sails down
Description:
Title from item. and Below image: Teas coffee &c. wholesale & retail.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Sleaford (Lincolnshire, England)
Subject (Topic):
Coffee industry, Sailing ships, Tea industry, and Tobacco industry
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1765]
Call Number:
Print00787
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., In margin upper right: Page 660., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, Gardens, and Pedestrians
Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
Description:
In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
In Latin., Script: Written in tiny gothic textura by a single scribe., Good initials for the beginning of each book and prologue, 10- to 4-line, blue or pink, with various shades combined in a single letter, with white highlights, often with prominent floral serifs in blue, pink, red, orange, and yellow, against pink and blue grounds; grounds for body of letter and serifs in opposite colors. Elaborate descenders, ascenders, as serifs, but often with biting dragons. Letters filled with curling floral motifs, often with dragon-head terminals, and biting dragons. The initials on f. 214r (Esther) and f. 220r (Job) are more elaborate than the others. 2-line initials for each chapter, blue or red, with red or blue flourishes. Running headings and chapter numbers in red and blue, with flourishes. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Printed vellum fragment, in large gothic letters, with portion of John 4.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Latin., Script: Text written in similar styles of gothic bookhand mostly by two scribes who may also have ruled the segments each copied. Scribe 1) ff. 7r-13v, 171v-296r, 307r-409r; running titles. Scribe 2) ff. 15r-171v, 297r-306v. A later hand of the 15th century wrote before and after Scriptural text in a less formal style of gothic; at least four other persons of the 14th-15th centuries have annotated the text in various styles of cursive., Decoration by two distinct hands whose division of work does not correspond precisely to that noted for the scribes. 1) ff. 7r-220v, 325r-340r. Large flourished initials, body divided red and blue, with interior designs primarily in red, and small blue circles added; first line of text in blue capitals decorated with simple red pen strokes. Many rubrics missing. 2) ff. 221r-324v, 341r-409r. Flourished initials similar in design to those by 1, but somewhat smaller in size and mostly without small blue circles; first line of text in blue and red capitals alternating; chapter divisions decorated with long herringbone pendants in red and blue. Running titles and marginal chapter divisions in alternating red and blue letters throughout codex. Notes to rubricator, some perpendicular in gutter., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on five double, tawed supports laced straight and in V's into back-cornered wooden boards and pegged. The spine is square, the sewing supports prominent. Braided tawed skin (?) endbands. The first covering is brown calf with corner tongues. Next is a chemise of pink, tawed skin with an outer cover sewn to it with diagonal stitches of blue thread. Outer and inner covers are adhered to each other and to the boards with extending edges cut off. Two strap-and-pin fastenings with foliate pin bases on the lower board and stubs of kermes pink straps. Green discoloration on pastedowns. Trace of lettering in ink on the spine.
Pitt as a peepshow man stands in front of his box while John Bull, drawn here as a simpleton, looks inside. Pitt pulls a string on the box with his right hand and with his left hand pulls a bag from John Bull's pocket. Slung over John Bull's shoulder is a trumpet with a fringed a banner decorated with the royal arms. The flag above Pitt's pagoda-like box reads: "Licensed by authority the Grand Exhibition by moving mecanism or deception of the senses."
Alternative Title:
Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd, John Bull enlightened, and Billy's rare-show
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9030., A preliminary drawing for print entitled Billy's raree-show or John Bull enlighten'd? Date of production inferred from the publication date of the etching., and Paper that has been oiled possibly to be translucent for the transfer process. Edges are tattered with old folds in the corners.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, John Bull (Symbolic character), and Peepshows
