Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
May 1831.
Call Number:
831.05.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Grey stands in the center pulling back a curtain on the large painting (right) addressing the three men (probably Peel, Cumberland, and Wellington) who look on in amazement. Grey says, "Gentlemen this is a fine color'd picture representing Futurity. T...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Begging, Spinning machinery, and Paintings
Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
Call Number:
OSB MSS 91
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
346
Abstract:
The collection consists of approximately 80 letters from Earl Amherst of Arracan to his first wife, Sarah, most dating from 1819 and 1820. Subjects include news of family and friends; estate management; and social and political events, including the d...
Description:
William Pitt Amherst, Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857), succeeded as second Baron Amherst of Arracan in 1797. A Lord of the Bedchamber in 1804-1815 and 1816-1823, he served as envoy to Naples 1809-1811 and as special ambassador to China in 1816. He...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Amherst of Arracan, Sarah Archer Hickman Pitt, Countess, 1762-1838., Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
Subject (Topic):
Luddites, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819, Court and courtiers, History, and Politics and government
A satire of the 1832 Reform Bill, with a see-saw with the Crown as the fulcrum. At the center is William IV, waving the Union flag; to the right is Lord Grey, seated on the lever, helping William balance with a scroll marked 'Union', with John Bull st...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Seesaws, Crowns, Flags, and British
A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, pok...
Description:
Title from dealer's description.
Publisher:
W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Ethnic stereotypes, Poverty, and Racism
BEIN 1978 1163: Imperfect: p. [27]-[29] wanting. Bookplates of Shepard and Alvin Krech. Number 5 of 6 titles bound together with binder’s title: Hone's Facetiae.
A picture puzzle engraving of a patriotic posy, the leaves of which frame voids in the shape of the profiles of eight British and European leaders in coalition against Napoleon. It may have been produced as a response to the Bonapartist "Corporal Viol...
Alternative Title:
Rose, shamrock, and thistle
Description:
"To general union, this plate containing profiles of eight illustrious personages is most humbly inscribed, by a friend of liberty."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Europe. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825., Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819., Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleon, Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Signs and symbols, Political aspects, and Politics and government
