Portrait, half-length, in an oval border surrounded by laurel; adorned at the top with streamers and supported below by angels sitting on a pedestal
Alternative Title:
Elle sçait les beaux Arts, elle est noble elle est belle ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Four lines of verse etched within pedestal at bottom of image: Elle sçait les beaux Arts, elle est noble elle est belle; mais outre sa beauté sa douceur ses appas, on trouve cent vertus en elle, que ce portrait n'exprime pas., Printmaker from Les graveurs de portraits en France., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 250 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Mounted in the center of a wash drawing (23.2 x 33 cm) entitled: View of Rochers, the country house of Madame Sevigné, in Britagne., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Longueville, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de, 1619-1679
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from text below image: Le sentiment!!!, Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 22 x 29 cm., and Pencil annotation on front of print: by the Honble. Marianne Curzon.
An album of sketches largely comprised of images drawn by a traveller in central and southern France in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The images, executed in a variety of media and styles, are mostly skillfully drawn landscapes, elevations of buildings, and people in local costume, with captions in French (with some English), many of which show scenes in the Bagnères-de-Bigorre (September-October 1828) in southwestern France as well as scenes in Pau (1827), Saint-Étienne (1828), Peyrehorade (1828), Nimes (1828), Bayonne (June 1828), Toulouse (May 1829), Montpellier (June 1829), Bordeaux (August 1830), and Royan (1831). The picturesque views include: a shepherd on stilts ('berger des Landes'); a couple on a cacolet at Bayonne; a rear view of a farmer sitting on a wall; a view of a chateau near Toulouse silhouetted against the red night sky, and another of the Tour des Pins at Montpellier glowing in the dark. Several drawings demonstrate an interest in architecture and antiquities: there are detailed, very skilled architectural drawings of the Thermes de Marie Thérèse at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Latin inscriptions copied from Roman monuments. Landscape drawings include a tall chestnut tree at the convent of Notre-Dame de Médoux and Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier (with a quote from Young's Night Thoughts). The album also includes five British scenes by another artist: the Tower of Refuge, Isle of Man; Netley Castle in Hampshire England; Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight; the ancient well at Wavertree and Prince Rupert's headquarters, Everton, both near Liverpool (these last two signed 'Alex Aikin').
Description:
In French and English, with some Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Artist unidentified, but is plausibly English; the sketch of Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier has a quote in English from Young's "Night Thoughts"., On different colored papers, with a table of contents, a few leaves previously removed; red glazed paper over pulp boards, green glazed endpapers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, France., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Monuments & memorials, and Castles & palaces
"The King's champion challenges anyone opposing the King's authority; the King standing underneath a large drapery in a room of his palace on the left; courtiers surround him; his champion standing in the centre; three knights on horseback approach from the right; spectators in the back."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0210.500., Series title given in the British Museum online catalogue: Engelants Schoutonneel., Two lines of text in Dutch on the left below image: S. Konings voorvegter daagt aldie geen die Koning William de III ..., Two lines of text in French on the right below image: Le champion du Roy fait un défi á tous ceux ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Joint coronation of William III and Mary II, April 11, 1689 -- Coronation challenge -- Coronation cups: silver-gilt chalice -- Champion of the King -- Yeomen of the Guard -- Royal canopies -- Constable's staff -- Royal arms upon shield -- Coronation banquet in the Westminster Hall -- Corner chairs -- Heralds -- Corinthian columns -- Westminster Hall -- Wall decoration -- Halberds -- Gloves: gauntlets -- Lion & unicorn -- Coronation costume.
Publisher:
Adriaan Schoonebeek
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Antiquités étrusques, grecques, et romaines tirées du cabinet du M. William Hamilton.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger from text on item., Title continues: "... tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire et plenipotentiaire de S.M. Britannique en cour de Naples.", Engravings by A. Cardon, C. Nolli, C. Pignatari, Dufrenoi after G. Bracci, F. de Grado, E. and R. Beaulieu, G.B. Tierce, A. Lamberti. Printmaker of the t.p. not identified., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Antiquités étrusques, grecques, et romaines tirées du cabinet du M. William Hamilton.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger from text on item., Title continues: "... tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en cour de Naples.", Engravings by A. Cardon, C. Nolli, C. Pignatari, Dufrenoi after G. Bracci, F. de Grado, E. and R. Beaulieu, G.B. Tierce, A. Lamberti. Printmaker of the t.p. not identified., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title page with an image of an artist riding on the back of a crow, paint brush in hand, with a sign hanging from his neck. The sign is decorated with a painter's palate and is inscribed: Nous prions fous les oiseaux grands et petits de laisser librement passer Roger Bookem allant de Douvres à Paris
Description:
Title from text incorporated into image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., 'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Secondary sheet attached to print with title: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro ..., and Secondary sheet 10 x 14 cm.
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes