An illustrated handbill describing the execution of Joseph Wall, former Governor of Goree, for unlawful execution in 1782 of Serjeant B. Armstrong. The large woodcut illustration depicts the punishment devised by Wall and shows the victim being whipped by presumably enslaved "black men" described in detail in the verses below
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns., Partially in verse; the short description of Wall's execution is followed by a six stanza poem, with the heading "A copy of verses on the melancholy occasion.", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: - Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a biographical account of his life, and the whole particulars of his execution., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Punishment & torture, Whipping, and Enslaved people
Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with 'A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin's / 124 High Holborn.'; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed 'Henry R'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at center of image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect? Sheet trimmed with possible loss of text from lower margin. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 2000,U.6) is lettered below image "Designed, drawn on stone, printed & published by R. Martin & Co., lithographers, 74 St. Martin's Lane, & 26 Long Acre.", and Mounted to: 21.2 x 29.5 cm.
Caption title., "Words cannot express her worth. Time will reveal her loss"--Beneath title., First line: Britons! Oh Britons! weep ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
Illustrated memorial published after the death of Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, who died after giving birth to a stillborn child in 1817. One of many similar memorials using the same illustration (an urn beneath a weeping willow) but with different verses
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text with engraved illustration above; within a mourning border., First line of verse beneath title: Trembling I touch the plaintive chord, to speak our England’s grief ..., and "Maria" written in a contemporary hand in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by the authoress, and sold by T. Gardiner and Son, 20, Princes-street, Cavendish-square; and at No. 209, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1827]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", Engraved text above images: 1827 West door., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 14th of June 1827 when a sermon will be preached by the Right Revd. Father in God Charles James, Lord Bishop of Chester, before His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, President ... [list of vice presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Chas. Stable and Wm. Child above imprint statement., Ticket numbered "3512" in ink within circle between the engraved signatures above imprint., Mounted to 27.1 x 21 cm., and Mounted before page 127 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
"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
Obverse: In the center, letter B above PS below (Box Princes Side); "New Theatre Covent Garden 1809" stamped around the perimeter. Reverse is blank
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token. and Matted to 47 x 54 cm, along with the Isaac Cruikshank print entitled: Acting magistrates committing themselves being their first appearance on this stage, as performed at the National Theatre Convent Garden, Sepr. 18, 1809.
Publisher:
New Theatre Covent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England), England, and London.
A trade card illustrated with craftsmen engaged in the activities of their trade as carpenters and architects as well as furnishing funerals
Alternative Title:
Benjamin and John Osgood carpenters, at the Rising Sun ...
Description:
Title from item., Date suggested by dealer., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on secondary sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Benjamin & John Osgood
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Architects, Carpenters, Undertakers and undertaking, Carpentry, Equipment, Saws, and Tools
Title from item., Date inferred from printmaker's street address; Garnett Terry occupied various numbers on Paternoster Row from 1770 to 1796. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Text within banners surrounding central image, clockwise from upper right: Toupees; Wholesale & Retail; Cushion's; Braids; Perfumery; Wigs., and For further information, consult library staff.
