Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--Pictorial works, Mouth breathing--Pictorial works, and Sleep positions--Physiological effect--Pictorial works
A collection of 20 proof states of the 27 prints after George Cruickshank used as illustrations for The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth. Most are signed with Marshall's initials 'JRM', with two signed 'J.R. Marshall' and most identify the artist as 'G.C.' (i.e. George Cruikshank) or G. Cruikshank'. One print based on William Hogarth's "O the roast beef of Old England, &c." includes the attribution "From Hogarth by G.C."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth was first issued by John Fairburn in weekly numbers beginning in 1825, and then shortly afterwards by Jones & Co.; see Cohn., Printed on india paper with three additional prints, all duplicate impressions on a different paper stock and all faulty. One duplicate plate is annotated in the top margin: "3 blocks by G. Ck. 9 blocks by RC. 1 block by [illegible]. Rimil 1863 r/m/. Out of Universal songster. Bone has the others.", Bound in calf gilt, all edges gilt; two auction records tipped on first blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +H1153: Incomplete: 61 plates only. Parts 14 and 18 wanting. Ten original wrappers, including five duplicates of the June, 1840, wrapper for the first number., Wrapper title., Title on later wrappers: Illustrations of Master Humphrey's clock, Barnaby Rudge., Issued in numbered and dated wrappers in 18 parts from June, 1840, to Nov., 1841. Plates are dated., and Illustrations are for The old curiosity shop and Barnaby Rudge as well as for Master Humphrey's clock.
Publisher:
Robert Tyas
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
"The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, part the second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-161.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600, Canary Islands --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Florida --History --Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, Peru --History --Conquest, 1522-1548, and Western Hemisphere --Maps --
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin and Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598