Portrait drawing of Frederick I, also known as Frederick Barbarossa; bust length, turned slightly right; with a gray beard; wearing a crown(?) and a suit of armor
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with three other drawings on page 83 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, approximately 1123-1190,
A portrait of Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di Pescara; bust length, head in profile to the left; with a long beard; wearing a helmet with a white feather on top
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with one other drawing on page 79 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Name):
Pescara, Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di, 1489-1525,
A George III reverse painting on glass. A child stands between his two parents, his mother kneeling on the left and his father swings his watch to entice the child to take his first steps in their fashionable appointed sitting room. Through the open window above the settee can be seen a boat with a sail on a river and a imposing building on the distant shore
Description:
Title from item. and For further information, consult library staff.
Reverse painting on glass. A personification of Flora in a chariot pulled by two cats. In the distance a garden with a folly
Description:
Title from item., Artist unidentified., With text below image: Stampa & Steffenoni, 14 Heather Lane, London., and For further information, consult library staff.
Portrait drawing of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan; bust length, in profile to the right; wearing a red hat
Description:
Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly mounted with three other drawings on page 83 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with three other drawings to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., Plate from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Secondary sheet with letterpress text mounted on print: The packet is quitting Dover "with fav'ring gale," the cargo, on deck, in a state of "blissful ignorance" ...
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: From Paris. A party are posting to Calais, -and the passengers of the Dilligence are stretching their own limbs and relieving the horses' up a hill ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
Title from the first line of verse., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Originaly imprint and printmaker's name below image mostly burnished out., Publication date in an unverified card catalog record: 1700?, Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: From cares that man is never free, Who sets his heart upon his riches ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms.
"Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat and broad-brimmed hat, his wife's arm through his. A fat and hideous negress, awkwardly asleep. The deck is level."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14718., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1140., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1248.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking