Design based on true incident in 1768 during construction of the Grafton House
Alternative Title:
New Grafton House
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 65., and Temporary local subject terms: Electors: Middlesex freeholders -- Buildings: Grafton House, Hay Hill, Piccadilly -- Scaffoldings -- Allusion to pilfered public funds -- Allusion to horse-race betting -- Edward Weston.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821, Macpherson, John, Sir, 1745-1821, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Published Aug. 15, 1833, by R.W. Billings (at Mr. Brittons, 11 Burton Street) & sold by J.W. Williams, 10 Charles St., Soho Square and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Street
"Ticket for the New Musical Fund, with an angel seated on a cloud, playing a lyre which rests on her left shoulder; after Richard Cosway."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 35 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Design in an oval. 'Cits' fish in a small piece of water bordered by a fence with a high railing on the left, beyond which is a road flanked by a high wall. Across the water (right) is a house with a high-pitched roof. Five men, three of whom are smoking, fish in the foreground in close proximity, two others on the farther side; an eighth (left) approaches carrying his rod. This appears to be the extreme north corner of the reservoir, where it is narrowest. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., Variant state without page number. Cf. No. 8939 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Mounted to sheet 25 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Fishing, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
A ticket issued by the Concert of Antient Music in 1812, for an event held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London. In the center, a bust in profile looking left, within oval lettered 'New Rooms Hanover Square, The Concert of Antient Music' and surmounted by musical instruments; date '1812' above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design of the ticket is after Robert Smirke. See an earlier version of the ticket from when the concerts were held in Tottenham Street, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1983,U.1829., and Inscribed 'Miss Roberts' in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
"Interior view of the new Stock Exchange in Capel Court, London."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 75., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 101.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Date derived from hospital's founding date., Place of publication supplied by curator., Below title: (Founded August, 1820,) Second avenue, corner Thirteenth street., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Eye disorders; Ear disorders; Hospitals, U.S.A.
Title from item., Date from item., Place of publication derived from the New York Mirror's office location., School is now called New York School for the Deaf., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dumbness.
Publisher:
Engraved for the New York Mirror
Subject (Name):
New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.
Subject (Topic):
Deaf, Education, Mutism, Deafness, Special education, and Schools
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1792?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 17 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionably dressed poets sit at a table ladling a drink into small glasses. Twelve lines of verse below design: No more shall we sneak, or fearfully speak, lest coffee house critics should snap off each nose, for all shall be witty, ingenious and pretty, the bays are our own, since we've got some new cloathes!! What tho! we want coin, let us never repine (tis one of a bards hereditary woes) so I'll fill up each glass, then quick let them pass, and a fig for the rest, since we've got some new clothes!
Alternative Title:
New clothed poets!!
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Date inscribed in graphite pencil below image: 1792., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Eating & drinking, and Poets