A portrait of the Pretender, shown three-quarters length to the waist and looking to the right, in an oval fraome. He is wearing robes, collar, abd jewel of the Garter; a lace cravat and full-bottomed wig. Statement of responsibility and chronogram engraved in the frame above and below
Description:
Title engraved in oval frame around portrait., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: James III Pretender of England &c. and Knight of St. James., Publication date from book in which this print was published., "S.A. Belle's portrait of the Pretender is well known"--British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Chronogram inscribed on lower portion of the oval frame enclosing the portrait: TeMpore DVro fILIVs rege natV's habetVr ast non qVIbVsqVe [i.e. 1688]., Four lines of verse in French at the bottom of design: O! Prince infortuné, joüet de la fortune ..., Four ines of verse in Dutch below the design: Heeft u't fortuin de rug tot dus ver toegekeerd ..., Plate 21 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Mounted to 42 x 27 cm., mounted again to 47 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Chez le Sr. Belle, rue du Four Faubourg S. Germain attenant la porte de la Foire
Title from item., Title continues: Makes and sells all sorts of repeating, plain, and musical clocks, likewise all sorts of repeating, plain, and horizontal watches, also the greatest choice of clock and watchmakers tools ... [text is repeated in French, Spanish, and Dutch]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 24 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
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: Ménagerie (jardin des plantes.) Besides which forming parts of the same establishment are the Museum of Natural History and the Botanical Garden ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm.
Champigny, Jean Bochart, chevalier de, 1712-approximately 1787, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Portraits W682 no. 9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "Gravé pour l'histoire d'Angleterre de Champigny.", Plate from: Champigny, J.B. Nouvelle histoire générale d'Angleterre, depuis l'origine la plus reculée de ce royaume, jusqu'a l'année MDCCLXXX. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1777., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on paper support: 360 x 280 mm.
"Portrait of French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, half-length, facing front with head turned to the left; in oval frame with coat of arms in lower part; illustration for Perrault's 'Les Hommes illustres'. c.1695/1700."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.244., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Title from item., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Three lines of text below title: Le 25 janvier 1774 la populace irritée pénétra sans armes dans sa maison. Il blessa plusieurs personnes à coups dépée: mais les Bostoniens, modéré jusques dans leur vengeance ... Followed by twenty-five lines (in two columns) of descirption titled Origine de la Revolution Américaine., Plate from: Recueil d'Estampes représantant ... la guerre qui a procuré l'indépendance aux États unis ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: customs duties -- Customs officers -- American colonies: Boston -- Street scenes -- Vehicles: cart -- Spectators -- Torture: tarring and feathering.
Publisher:
Chez Mr. Godefroy rue des Francs-bourgeois, Porte St., Michel et chez Mr. Ponce, rue St. Hiacinte, No. 19, A.P.D.R.
Title engraved below image., Publication date from Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Reduced copy, without printmaker's name, of the French copy of No. 4050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: allusion to the North Briton -- Writing implements: inkwell and pen -- Allusion to Wilkes's imprinsonment., and Window mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Call Number:
LWL MSS 11 Box 8
Image Count:
43
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Madame du Deffand's diary, written in the hand of Jean-Francois Wiart, she having lost her sight in 1754, for the last months from July 1779 to September 1780 in which she records details of her dinner engagements with her circle of friends, the entries ending less than two weeks before her death on September 23. She also makes note of who she has corresponded with that day and records details of interest to her about 01the news contained in the letters she receives or events of the day
Description:
Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained her such friends as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle and Madame de Staal-Delaunay, the president Henault, and D'Alembert. The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole. She died on September 23, 1780, leaving her papers to Walpole., In French., Title from cover., Final 206 pages blank. Bound in green vellum., and Formerly classed as: 49 2545 II.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, and Social life and customs
Wie redeneeren wil is mis. Men vind de Lapis by de gis
Description:
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Fair of the wholesale wind-pedlar., State with verse in Dutch and its paraphrase in French., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch below title: Wind is 't begin, wind is het end, Myn kussen en myn fondement ..., Two columns of verse in French below the verse in Dutch: Le vent est mon tresor, coussin et fondement ..., Plate 13 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., v. 1., Mounted to 47 x 31 cm., and Watermark.