A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
The collection consists of two volumes holding printed ephemera, photographs, and original artwork related to the marketing of products manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company, including construction, chemistry, and magic sets for children, and smal...
Description:
A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 as the Mysto Manufacturing Company by Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961, Yale 1909 MD); the company name was changed in 1916. It manufactured toys and small electrical appliances. Th...
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
A.C. Gilbert Company., California Fruit Growers Exchange., and La Velle Manufacturing Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Artists' materials, Display of merchandise, Marketing, Mechanical toys, Packaging, and Toys
The collection consists of two volumes holding printed ephemera, photographs, and original artwork related to the marketing of products manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company, including construction, chemistry, and magic sets for children, and smal...
Description:
A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 as the Mysto Manufacturing Company by Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961, Yale 1909 MD); the company name was changed in 1916. It manufactured toys and small electrical appliances. Th...
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
A.C. Gilbert Company., California Fruit Growers Exchange., and La Velle Manufacturing Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Artists' materials, Display of merchandise, Marketing, Mechanical toys, Packaging, and Toys
"The Prince of Orange (left), dressed like a Dutchman in (English) caricature, kneels with arms extended imploringly at the feet of Princess Charlotte (a good portrait). He wears Apollo's wreath, decorated with small oranges, before him is his clumsy ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1814, by Wm. Holland, 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817., and William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849.
Satirical print showing the fanciful interior of an artist's studio, with one painter (right) finishing a portrait of an aged admiral with a wooden leg seated in a chair (far right) while a second artist works on a painting of the Rape of Europa, an a...
Alternative Title:
State of portrait and historical painting
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1798 for the proprietor, at Messrs. Colnaghi & Sala's, Pall Mall
Churchill (right) in the form of a huge bear, wearing clerical neck-bands, as in Hogarth's "The Bruiser", turns a snarling fiercely at a small dog (Hogarth) like his Trump. The bear has one raised paw and the other rests on a piece of paper entitled ...
Alternative Title:
Poet and the painter
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764 and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a...
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
