"Alboin and Rosmunda; the queen on the right, refusing to drink wine from a cup made from her father's skull, which the king holds on the left; three female courtiers, two soldiers, two child servants watching them; gothic windows in background; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alboin et Rosmunda
Description:
Title from image., Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Alboin et Rosmunda., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 52 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two blacks running in the brush, also armed with rifles
Alternative Title:
Rebel negro armed and on his guard
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate published for: Stedman, J.G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Enslaved persons, Indians of South America, Rebels, and Rifles
Volume 2, page 41. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman wearing a plumed hat, carrying a feather fan, walking in a garden, past an urn set on a plinth, with two other women standing behind her to right, one fastening a corsage, wearing a striped scarf over her hair; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of text below title: Je l'aimais dès ce premier moment, & ce moment à decidè de toute me vie. "Le Comte de Commenge.", and Mounted on page 41 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Title from annotation below image., Date from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Possibly part of Seasons, described in Francesco Bartolozzi : catalogue des estampes / d'après les manuscrits de A. de Vesme, par A. Calabi. Milan : Guido Modiano, 1928, no. 1794-1804., and On page numbered 47 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Orpheus and Eurydice walking in the underworld; on the right, three dogs; on the left, a putto holding a torch and a banner; in an oval frame with palm leaves; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1767."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, museum registration number 1897,1231.265., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 7 in Folio 75 B28 799., Sheet trimmed to design., and On page numbered 8 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Cul-de-lampe of a naked winged child seated on the ground, his left hand on his left cheek, with an expression of sorrow, his left elbow resting on a log lettered: "Captain Cook"; on the left, a ship on the sea; after Francisco Vieira; illustration to page 146 in the fourth canto in 'The Gardens' by Abbé Delille (translated by Mrs Montolieu, London: 1805; second edition); published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to image, resulting in loss of lettering., and On page numbered 43 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].