Title from item., Two images on one plate. Upper image: Compartment 1st. Lower image: Compt. 2d., Numbered 'Plate V' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 19' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., State with title on plate. Cf. No. 8934 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Tea gardens -- Tea drinking -- Middle class: 'cits' -- Bayswater.
Publisher:
Published Aug. 1, 1796, by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
An explanatory design of the telegraph, built for the transmission of messages, over the Admiralty, Whitehall; the main image shows the telegraph on top of the Officer's Cabin with all the shutters closed; engraved lettering below, and around the edge, lettered from A to R, are further smaller telegraphs with shutters open in various different positions according to the specific letter signalled. Inscribed with letters above and within images, and with five short paragraphs of lettering below main image, three with the heading: "Explanation of the Telegraph / The Alphabet explained / Sentences explained".
Description:
Title from text engraved along the top of the image., All engraved., "Price 1 shilling.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pud. March 26, 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith.
Published / Created:
1860 January
Call Number:
2007 S44
Collection Title:
Annual report on the improvement of the Central Park, New York.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Fold out illustration bound in between p. 38-39. and Imperfect: Paper browned and brittle, some pages loose. Bound with: no. 1-5 of New York (N.Y.) Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. Annual report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park.
Publisher:
Wm. G. Bryant & Co., Printer,
Subject (Geographic):
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) --Pictorial works and Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--Periodicals
A drawing of the staircase and hall at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Staircase at Strawberryhill
Description:
Title, artist, and date inscribed on verso., Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount: Staircase at Strawberryhill., and Formerly mounted on the upper half of leaf 30 with another view of the staircase in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Watercolor drawing of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house is visible at right, atop a small hill and partially obscured by a tree. The lawn with scattered trees extends outward from the house to the left, with a low brick or stone wall and part of a wooden fence visible in the foreground. The Thames, with a single sailboat on it, can barely be seen in the distance through the trees. A few pinkish clouds fill the sky near the horizon
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
Watercolor drawing of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house is visible at left in the middle distance, viewed through an opening between two stands of trees. A woman sits on a stool and milks a cow in the field in the foreground; another cow lies on the grass nearby. To the right is the Thames, on which a sailboat and a rowboat travel; a man with a cane stands on the bank and looks out at the three men in the rowboat. The far bank of the river is visible in the distance; a few pinkish clouds fill the sky
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand. and Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
83. - Guinee Portugaise [Guinea-Bissau]. Bafata - Vue Generale. The foreground shows a body of water, behind which can be seen the buildings of the village of Bafata., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it.