Creator: Rigaud, Jacques, 1681-1754, printmaker - Yale University Library Search Results

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Vue de L'Hôpital Royale de la Salpêtrière [graphic]

Creator:: Rigaud, Jacques, 1681-1754, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1753]
Call Number:: Print20026
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., 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 Rigaud rue St. Jacques vis à vis le Colege du Plessis
Subject (Geographic):: France.
Subject (Name):: Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):: Hospitals
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Vue de L'Hôpital Royale de la Salpêtrière [graphic]

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[Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]

Creator:: Rigaud, Jacques, 1681-1754, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1745?]
Call Number:: 745.00.00.04 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
Description:: Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line., Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):: Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Owls, Quacks, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Cromwell Mortimer] [graphic]