Title and date from item., In lower left corner in pen: á Monseiur Paul Fleurot en bien respectueux hommage., and Poster appears to show men who have previously been rejected for conscription in the military undergoing physical exams.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918, Draft, Military personnel, Men, Nurses, and Scales
"Portrait of French playwright Molière, after Bourdon; three-quarter length, sitting at desk, directed to left, hands folded on table, wearing long curled wig and loose-fitting gown; in rectangular frame, with spread wings and ivy in upper part, and attributes of comedy in lower part. ... Ribbon at bottom with verses [in Latin] by Horat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
Description:
Title from from text within cartouche at top of image., Variant state, lacking imprint statement and with verses from Chenier engraved below image instead of a dedication. For a different state with the imprint "A Paris chez le Sr De Mailly, Quay de l'Ecole près le Louvre Avec Privilége du Roy", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.236., Place and date of publication from the Philadelphia Museum of Art online collection database, accession no.: 1943-50-23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and multilated in lower left corner, resulting in partial loss of artist's name., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 187 (leaf numbered '228' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Printmaker's signature is unclear., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior; Politics, French.
Publisher:
chez Frérot éditeur and Lith de Villain
Subject (Geographic):
France. and France
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Soldiers, Hospital wards, and Politics and government
Champigny, Jean Bochart, chevalier de, 1712-approximately 1787, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Portraits W682 no. 9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "Gravé pour l'histoire d'Angleterre de Champigny.", Plate from: Champigny, J.B. Nouvelle histoire générale d'Angleterre, depuis l'origine la plus reculée de ce royaume, jusqu'a l'année MDCCLXXX. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1777., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on paper support: 360 x 280 mm.
Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
Published / Created:
[ca. 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 351
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
218
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (fine) of A journal of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1522, written by Antonio Pigafetta (ca. 1480/91 - ca. 1534), an Italian gentleman from Vincenza who survived the trip. Beinecke MS 351, the text of which is divided into 57 numbered chapters, is the most complete and most handsomely produced manuscript of the four surviving witnesses to the text; the original, probably in Italian, is now lost
Description:
In French., Script: Written in elegant humanistic bookhand with script often resting above the rulings; marginal notes and headings in a more cursive script that inclines toward the right., Twenty-three beautifully drawn and illuminated maps, mostly full-page, surrounded by gold frames, and with scrolls superimposed that contain the identifying legends for islands and land masses. Decorative initials, 4- to 3-line, rose or blue highlighted with white, on gold rectangular grounds edged in black, contain flowers in contrasting colors or strawberries and green and chartreuse leaves. Gold initials, 2-line, on red rectangular grounds or on red and blue grounds (divided diagonally or horizontally) with gold highlights. Gold paragraph marks, 1-line, on rectangular grounds that alternate red and blue, with gold highlights; rectangular line-fillers in red and gold, also highlighted with gold. Headings for chapters and titles for maps within text, as well as notes in margin entered by same scribe, in red or blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled. Bound by Duru in 1851. Disbound and mounted for photographic reproduction for the facsimile edition by Harold Tribolet at the Extra Bindery of the Lakeside Press. Rebacked with extraordinary skill.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521. and Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534.
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Portuguese, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Voyages around the world
"Large palace yard lined with porticos, with draped people engaged in activities representing sciences and arts, and royal coat of arms with crown, fleur-de-lys and insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit in the lower part."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,8.85., Dedication etched beneath title: Dediée au Roy par son tres humble tres obeïssant et tres fidéle serviteur et sujet Seb. le Clerc., and With two unidentified (collector?) stamps.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In margin lower right: Salon de 1891., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Nurses & nursing; Theater.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Orthopedics, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Comédie-Française, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Nursing, Nuns as nurses, Nuns, Nurses, Physicians, Theaters, War casualties, Wounds & injuries, Splints (Surgery)., and Hospitals