L'Europe distinguée suivant l'estendüe de ses principales parties.
Description:
"Presentée a Monseigneur le Davphin par ... Alexis Hubert Iaillot" -- in title cartouche., Hand col. Sheet measures 58.3 x 88.8 cm, and Title in top margin: L'Europe distinguée suivant l'estendüe de ses principales parties ...
Caricature map. and Ill. of people represent international relations.
Publisher:
Beer éditeur,
Subject (Geographic):
Europe--Maps
Subject (Topic):
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Caricatures and cartoons, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Maps, and International relations--History--19th century--Maps
"Premier & deuxim̀e volumes réunis"--Vol. 1/2 t.p., "Troisième et quatrième volumes réunis"--Vol. 3/4 t.p., From the library of Alfred Heller., and Issued in 80 numbers, many of which had supplements, under title: L'Exposition de Paris de 1889 : journal hebdomadaire, from Oct. 15, 1888-Feb. 19, 1890. Despite the name its frequency varied.
Publisher:
Librairie Illustrée,
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)--Exhibitions
Subject (Name):
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France) and Heller, Alfred E.--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
World's fairs and World's fairs--France--Paris--1889
Depiction of the marble copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Sleeping Hermaphroditus. The nude figure lies on a mattress, body turned away from the viewer, head to the right and resting upon the right arm which rests upon a pillow; a sheet is draped over the figure's calves and left shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "41" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 167 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Architectural setting with, on the left History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits taking books away from Time, who is trying to devour them; on the right, London, personified by a seated, crowned woman leaning on a lion, sits at the bottom of a pedestal; in the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying the oval portrait of Isaac de Larrey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to the third or fourth volume of Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre', 4 vols (Rotterdam, 1697-1713). See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image on left edge.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and signed by the artist below image, in gray wash., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.