"A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair (left); his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ....' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with imprint.
Alternative Title:
Delights of harmony
Description:
Publication information based on that of state with imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Title etched below image., and Variant state, lacking publication line, of a print published with the imprint "London: Published May 20, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street." Cf. No. 11611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Two photograph albums and loose photographs found in them. All the photographs are portraits, of Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, Holman Hunt, Thomas Hughes, W. G. Palgrave, G. F. Watts, family members Julia Duckworth Stephen and May Prinsep, as well as neighbors and servants on the Isle of Wight. Accompanied by several photogravures of Alfred Tennyson printed after his death.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., Bound in 3/4 green calf., Julia Margaret Cameron, early English portrait photographer., and Title taken from album covers.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Portraits
Two photograph albums and loose photographs found in them. All the photographs are portraits, of Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, Holman Hunt, Thomas Hughes, W. G. Palgrave, G. F. Watts, family members Julia Duckworth Stephen and May Prinsep, as well as neighbors and servants on the Isle of Wight. Accompanied by several photogravures of Alfred Tennyson printed after his death.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., Bound in 3/4 green calf., Julia Margaret Cameron, early English portrait photographer., and Title taken from album covers.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Portraits
Purchased from the estate of Vine Deloria on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Deloria, Vine
Subject (Topic):
Civil rights workers--United States--Archives, Indians of North America--Civil rights, Indians of North America--Government relations, Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc, Indians of North America--Politics and government, Posting signs & notices, and Signs & signboards
The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment.
Alternative Title:
Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Description:
Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible., Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Catholicism., Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., Devil., and Gambling.
Photographs of Mary P. Murphey's farm near Stafford, Texas
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The Murphey farm was owned by Mary P. Murphey of Houston, Texas, located 3/4 of a mile north of Stafford, Fort Bend County, Texas. Crops included corn, alfalfa, cotton, and hay.
Description:
Manuscript caption on verso: New calf at the Murphey farm near Houston, Texas.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bend County (Tex.)
Subject (Name):
Murphey, Mary P
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Texas--Pictorial works and Farms--Texas--Pictorial works