Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Original work created circa late 1740s., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fate and fatalism, Death (Personification)., Gout, Skeletons, Fear, Alcoholic beverages, Crutches, and Arrows
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
SH Contents L893 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 35
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a subject from Thomas Gray's poem 'The Bard': The bard shown standing on the side of a cliff at right playing harp, his cloak, beard and hair blown by the wind, a group of Edward I's soldiers pointing towards him from the opposite side of the river below
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned., The oil painting is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. It was later engraved by Hall (figures) and Middiman (landscape), published in 1784 as the frontispiece to Edward Jones's Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards (London : Richard Rees, 1825)., and Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
Pen and black ink architectural drawing of an elevation of a bed chamber featuring cornice molding, a decorative chimneypiece, and two window bays. Corresponding dimensions, notes, calculations, and profiles occupy empty space throughout the design
Alternative Title:
Elevations of the interior walls of a room with the chimney-piece and the profile of a cornice and Elevation of a room, the bed chamber for Lord Dacre
Description:
Title from description inscribed within image. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Birthplace of Bunyan and Birthplace of John Bunyan in Elstow
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath drawing, on mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 82a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Elstow (England)
Subject (Name):
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed around title., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 20 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly man in repose, nearly sleeping, on a slipcovered chair before his fireplace is approached by a swarm of winged blue devils emerging from the smoke drifting from the fire
Description:
Artist's signature and title from caption inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Demons, Fear, Fireplaces, Older people, and Sleeping
Titles etched below images., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1808]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 45 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A military officer stands in a commanding pose pointing at the troops arranged before him. He issues an order, "By my sovereign will and authority I command you all to depart." One of the frightened soldiers responds, "Poor man, he has got the place fever to a certainty."
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
A shield with four quarterings: first quarter contains a pair of boxing gloves; the second quarter is drawn showing a man uncorking a bottle. The third and fourth quarters show different moments in a fight. Above the shield is a clenched hand surrounded by laurels, with two "Bottle-holders" supporting either side
Description:
Image was used as the basis for a print published by George Humphrey in 1819: The Boxer's arms., See Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13395., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., 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: The Cabin. The steward in full costume, and having "bane and antidote both before him ..., Secondary sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm., and Watermark: C Ansell.