"Portrait of probably one of Cornelis de Vos' children (Susanna?), seated in a baby chair and wearing a cap, playing with some sweets."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after a painting by Cornelis de Vos that was formerly attributed to Peter Paul Rubens. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1869,0410.968., Four lines of text below title: A Monseigneur le Marquis de Grimaldi, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit ..., "Tiré du cabinet de Monseigneur le prince de Monaco."--Lower left corner of plate., "Par son très-humble et très obéissant serviteur Salvador."--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 188 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Creator information from British Museum website., In top margin: Musée Grotesque No.16., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre. Rue du Coq, No.15 ; Depe. à la Don
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Cherry trees, Ladders, and Eating & drinking
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., In margin lower right: Déposé à la Bibliothèque Nationale., Depicts Luigi Marchelli, a surgeon of Genoa., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez Depeuille, Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne, aux deux Pilastres d'Or
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox vaccine, Vaccination, Smallpox, Sheep pox, Physicians, Children, Sheep, and Medical equipment & supplies
A French satire on the British administration, who are shown gathered around a table with bottles and glasses (two of which are toppled over) and a battle plan (’Plan de Berlin’) drawn on the tablecloth. The men are mostly yawning, asleep or looking bored. Even the dog in the foreground looks to be toppling over with fatique. A servant also yawning enters from the left with a bootjack carrying slippers(?). In 1806, French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin
Alternative Title:
Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guere and Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guerre
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "plan" is etched backwards., For a variant state lacking alternative title and other text at bottom of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.60., "Déposé à la Bibliothèque Imp."--Beneath lower left corner of image., "Et presentement chez Basset Md. d'estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, Rue St. Jacques au coin de colle des Mathurines, No. 64"--Below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
Germany.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Military officers, British, Tables, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
A man with lecherous look on his face, his tongue between his teeth and with a large grin, reaches his hand between the curtains of a canopy bed, his other hand raised. Behind him leaning against a coat tossed on a chair is a bed warmer. On the dresser behind him is a bust of a woman with a feathered headdress. On the small chest at the foot of the bed is a basket with a lid
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number from impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris., Printmaker's name etched in image, at bottom of bureau., Date based on Plate 15, which was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817., Dimensions from the impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to image: 21 x 13.7 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Headdresses, Lust, and Sculpture
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Musée Grotesque. No.31., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
BEIN Hfc31 333x: Cancels at p. 185, 271, 315, 321, 449, 463, 493, 503, 551, and 567. Ownership inscription on title page: Ex libris N. Ferry., BEIN 1978 1593: Without cancels at p. 185, 271, 315, 321, 449, 463, 493, 503, 551, and 567. Bookplate and autograph of Philibert Bruys des Gardes, 1769. Manuscript notes on pages 471, 481 and 534., BEIN 2020 749: Cancels at p. 185, 271, 315, 321, 449, 493, and 567. Ownership inscription (crossed out) on title page: Courelle avocat. Ownership inscription on front paste-down: Lefevre ce lundi 3. aout 1835. Copious contemporary manuscript notes, many identifying the characters described in the text. Later manuscript note on front paste-down., Signatures: ã¹² ẽ⁴ A-Aa¹² Bb⁸., and Title vignette: printer's mark.
A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, glass and carafe. On the wall behind is a landscape; to the left a fireplace
Alternative Title:
Petite vèrole
Description:
Title engraved below image., An 'E' enclosed within a heart, etched lower left below image., Date from Bibliothèque nationale de France., "Déposé à la direction Gale.", and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Diseases, Sick persons, Clothing & dress, Sick, and Visiting the sick