Harris, John, active 1680-1739 or 1740, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1717]
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 140++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the Church of St Mary-le-Strand, showing the statue of St Anne on the Portico, with further statues in the niches on the south side; elegantly dressed figures on Strand around church, a sedan chair and a carriage on the right"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prospectum hunc Templi Stae. Mariae in vico dicto the Strand
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., "Debito Obsequio D.D. Jacobus Gibbs Architectus"--Below title, lower right corner., and Watermark.
"Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Subject (Topic):
Elopements, Firearms, Servants, and Carriages & coaches