"A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing...
Alternative Title:
Review of old times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Magicians, Daggers & swords, Globes, Ethnic stereotypes, and Obesity
"Probably based on G. Cruikshank's 'Boney's Meditations . . .', British Museum Satires No. 12593 (1815), an adaptation of Gillray's 'Gloria Mundi', British Museum Satires No. 6012. The place of Napoleon is taken by George IV (right) who stands on the ...
Alternative Title:
Address to the Sun
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Quentin, Georgina
"Probably based on G. Cruikshank's 'Boney's Meditations . . .', British Museum Satires No. 12593 (1815), an adaptation of Gillray's 'Gloria Mundi', British Museum Satires No. 6012. The place of Napoleon is taken by George IV (right) who stands on the ...
Alternative Title:
Address to the Sun
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Quentin, Georgina
"View of the interior of the room; a group of gentlemen sit at a table in centre of room, a fireplace with roaring fire to the right with scrolls hanging on the wall above; directly behind the table a large globe sits on a shelf with slim book shelves...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 Jany. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, fac...
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, fac...
Alternative Title:
Captain Thomas Coram
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and imprint from later state.
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown sitting, directed, fac...
Alternative Title:
Captain Thomas Coram
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and imprint from later state.
Publisher:
Published Dec. 1, 1796 by R. Cribb, No. 288 Holborn
"Scene outside a large apothecary's shop, both windows filled with large coloured jars. Above the door is the sign, a terrestrial globe on which scales are balanced. Outside, a doctor in old-fashioned dress, acts as usher with a long wand to a band of...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Drugstores, Storefronts, Globes, Scales, Signs (Notices), Physicians, Infants, Containers, Undertakers, Staffs (Sticks), Skeletons, and Churches
Title from letterpress text below image, in Spanish.
Publisher:
Printed by Harding and Wright ...
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Enghien, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, duc d', 1772-1804, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Wright, John Wesley, 1769-1805, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Devil, Pitchforks, Flags, French, Globes, Daggers & swords, Liberty cap, Roosters, Crucifixes, and Hourglasses
