The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the front pastedown and versos of almost every photograph, although some versos are blank.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts., Probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut., and Reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated.
Subject (Geographic):
Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Salt Lake City, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Austin, Henry, 1804-1891, Bundy, J. K., C.M. Loomi, J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company, Loomis, C. M. (Clark Merrick), 1829-1890, Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, Wheeler & Wilson Company, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 23 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A burly and ragged Englishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Irishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (right). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin
Alternative Title:
Union between England and Ireland
Description:
Title from inscription below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Future [?] imprint statement inscribed in black ink: London, Pubd. Jany. 1800., Image associated with Thomas Rowlandson's etching. Union between England & Ireland. Published 1799. Cf. George., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9462., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A burly and ragged Irishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Englishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (left). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Union between England and Ireland
Description:
Printmaker, date and artist from the British Museum catalogue. Or later? See drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library attributed to Woodward. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.