Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
Trade card of the engraver and copper plate printer Francis Arnold. At center is a detailed vignette of a printer's workshop with two workers, one engaged in the process of engraving a copper plate and the other at the printing press, with sheets drying above and bind sheets at his feet. Engraved text on either side of the vignette lists some of the products offered: "Invoice heads, address cards, arms, crests, &c. &c."; and "Manufacturers patterns engraved and printed."
Alternative Title:
Arnold, engraver and copper-plate printer ...
Description:
Title from item., Date from business directories listing Arnold at this Bath Street address from 1818., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Francis Arnold
Subject (Geographic):
England and Birmingham.
Subject (Topic):
Printing industry, Engravers, Workshops, and Printing presses
Two illustrations, with accompanying text, showing the shooting of James King of William in San Francisco, California and the surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora
Description:
Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy, consisting of only the first of two sheets described by Baird., Title from captions below images., and Second illustration, "Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora," signed in lower right "Huestis."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
King, James, 1822-1856, Casey, James P., Cora, Charles., and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Horizontal print has four vignettes of scenes from the assassination. Assassination: depicts the actual crime in the streets of San Francisco. Surrender of the Jail: depicts mob scene as vigilance committee demands the sheriff to hand the prisoner to them. Funeral of Js. King: depicts the large crowds gathered along the street for the funeral procession. Execution: depicts the hanging of James Casey from the Vigilance Committee Rooms. The vignettes flank a central column of text which describes these scenes in detail
Description:
Title from caption of text column. and Printed area measures 26.2 x 39.5 cm.
Title from item., Title continues: Is made and sold fine mead, at 15s. p. doz. 13 bottles, sent to any part or near town, without any expence to [the] buyer, a single bottle may be had at 13s.; bottles to be paid for or exchanged; at the same place is to be had the true virgin honey, now used by many in tea and punch as an excellent sweetener. Note, in any decline, consumptive cases, rheumatism, gravel, asthmas &c mead is greatly commended by many eminent physicians as most salutary, being as friendly as it is pleasant., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and On leaf 35 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Is sold all manner of wearing apparel for men and boys both new & second hand rich or plain; likewise gentlemen may chuse their patterns and have cloaths, liveries or mourning made in the modern taste at the most reasonable rates; all sorts of woollen drapery & Manchester goods in the piece, swords, pistols, sashes, gorgetts, horse-furniture &c, &c. N.B. The utmost value given for the above articles., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 53 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Dutch velvets, black silks, sattins, sarsnetts, persians, poplins, Norwich crapes, bombazeens, dresdens, Venetian poplins, Irish stuffs, plaids, and all other sorts of stuffs, worsted damasks, cambletts, camblettes, calomancoes, velvet cloaks, short cloaks, capuchines, cardinals, night gowns, English & French hoops, childrens coats, stays & all sorts of quilted coats., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 19 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Are sold all sorts of Turkey, Musketta, Wilton, Worcester & Scots carpets with upholstery and cabinet goods, wholesale & retail. Where merchants may be supplied with the above goods for exportation. NB, houshold goods apprais'd & funerals furnish'd., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 7 of an album of trade cards and invitations.