Waterton (right) sits erect and composed astride a Cayman (South American alligator) holdings its forelegs twisted backwards as a bridle. He is barefooted, wearing white shirt and trousers, with a knife in his belt. Four Indians and three black enslaved men haul at the rope attached to the bait which the creature has swallowed. Behind is the river with a long canoe lying against the shore. On the opposite bank are dense trees, some with hammocks slung between them. See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: "Vide Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton Esqr. Page 232"., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1831.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1827 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
South America,
Subject (Name):
Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865, and Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Subject (Topic):
Indians, Enslaved persons, Black people, and Alligators
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of image: Page 251., Text in lower right corner of image: Chap. 24., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of twenty prints published in 1837 by T. McLean with wrapper title: Pickwickian illustrations : twenty plates / by Heath., and With: Vell, said Sam, all I can is I vish you may get it.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
"Life" in a billiard room, or, Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins "au fait" (awake) to the Parisian sharpers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Games -- Hand gestures.
Publisher:
Published July 1, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of image: Page 277., Text in lower right corner of image: Chap. 27., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of twenty prints published in 1837 by T. McLean with wrapper title: Pickwickian illustrations : twenty plates / by Heath., and With: Blindman's buff.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Depiction of the dream of Horace Walpole that inspired him to write The castle of Otranto. The fantastic scene involves a large armored hand perched atop an enormous staircase ascending four levels within a Gothic castle. Two suits of armor stand guard at the junctions of the staircase with each level, and two more are present in the foreground, suggesting that the staircase continues downward. Arched windows and a painting of a mounted knight are seen on the wall to the left of the staircase; a bat is seen flying above
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 93., and Bound as page 195 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Watercolor drawing of the fictional archbishop in Lesage's novel Gil Blas; bust length, turned slightly right; overweight, with white hair and bushy white eyebrows; wearing a mitre, pectoral cross, and chasuble
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 210., and Bound in as page 80 in volume 9 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of image: Page 274., Text in lower right corner of image: Chap. 25., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of twenty prints published in 1837 by T. McLean with wrapper title: Pickwickian illustrations : twenty plates / by Heath., and With: "Law", replied Mr. Grummer, "law, civil power and exehative; them's my titles; here's my authority."
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
"George IV, on a galloping horse, aims an arrow at the crowned head of the Queen (left), which emerges above the clouds of dust raised by his horse. He wears military uniform, with peacock's feathers (see British Museum Satires No. 13299) in his cocked hat. In the distance (right) are the domes of the Pavilion. The plate faces lines beginning: A, for an Archer, who wounded a Queen, The stoutest Apollo that ever was seen, ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A, for an archer, who wounded a queen, the stoutest Apollo that ever was seen ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Rosco., and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Feathers, Bows (Weapons), and Archery
A collection of 69 prints, mostly mezzotints issued Carington Bowles and those reissued by Bowles and Carver, as well as some prints issued by Robert Sayers. Also tipped in are a collection of the illustrations from the 4th edition of Thomas Bridges' A burlesque translation of Homer (London, 1797).
Alternative Title:
Facetious
Description:
Title from title page in mss., Bound in red morocco with marble boards with spine title: Facetious., Title page handwritten in mss with collection spelled "colletion"., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.