Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my little Friend, Richard Burney, putting on Breeches," "Buxom Het, an excellent new song to an old Tune: a Soldier & a Sailor, a Tinker & a Tailor, etc., made on Mrs. Esther Burney," and "Occasional Prologue to the Good Natured Man, a Comedy; when acted by Ladies and Gentlemen for their diversion."
Description:
Incomplete index in back of manuscript., Laid in: poem, in same hand, titled "To my little friend Charles Wollaston, on his being put into Breeches.", and Binding: boards, vellum spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother's skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk
Alternative Title:
Relieving the distressed travellers
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by Robert Dighton, now at the Yale Center for British Art (Accession Number: B1986.29.78). The drawing is part of a set of "Twelve Illustrations to Contemporary Life and Diversions.", Date of publication based on watermark., and Watermark: [...] ons 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Travel, Children, Wagons, Recruiting & enlistment, and Soldiers
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1614); as St Cecilia, whole-length, seated to left on a stool playing the organ within an oval; two children singing behind; to left, cloud with rays of light."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Saint Caecilia, St. Cecilia, and Mrs. Sheridan
Description:
Title from text below image., State from Goodwin and Hamilton., First state, before title altered; for a later state with the title "Mrs. Sheridan", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1830,0714.52., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 36 (leaf numbered '94' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published July 20th, 1779, for Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
BEIN Z84 55: Imperfect: Bled, with loss of most title page autograph. Autograph on front free endpaper recto: Crescentius Matherus. Manuscript table of contents on front free endpaper recto. Bookplate: Yale College Library, from the estate of Mr. George Brinley, 1879. Autograph on title page: [Crescentius Matherus?]. Manuscript notes in text. Number 8 of 17 works bound together, formerly with binder's title: Ecclesiastical tracts., BEIN Pequot Z96: Loss of manuscript autograph on title page due to trimming. Number 3 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., Includes four poems in Latin and English, pages [21-22], 1st count; two are signed by John Wilson., Signatures: A-F⁴., and Errata at foot of page 26.
Publisher:
Printed by Samuel Green
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts
Subject (Topic):
Baptism, Congregational churches, Infant baptism, Children, Religious life, Church membership, and Baptism and church membership
Volume 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., Mounted on page 127 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 39.3 x 49.9 cm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, and Children
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.9 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 29 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.9 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 29 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Plate 30. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges. A sign to the left of the musician's window advertises The Beggar's Opera. A sign on the building to the right reads "John Long Pewterer." In this state the horse on the extreme right is black (white in the earlier state), the boy's slate trailing on the ground was only half shaded in the earlier state, but is now darkened
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.8 x 41 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 30 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination
Plate 30. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in London, possibly near St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, shows a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a pregnant ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a parrot above her head on the lamp post squawks; a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares; one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle and stands by a house made of toy blocks; an itinerant oboist plays; a dustman carries his basket and a bell; a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, a dog barking at his feet; on the roof at the right two cats fight (both shown with arched backs) just beyond the chimney from which a chimney sweep emerges. A sign to the left of the musician's window advertises The Beggar's Opera. A sign on the building to the right reads "John Long Pewterer." In this state the horse on the extreme right is black (white in the earlier state), the boy's slate trailing on the ground was only half shaded in the earlier state, but is now darkened
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., "Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.8 x 41 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 30 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blocks (Toys), Cats, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Musicians, Noises, Occupations, Parrots, Street vendors, and Urination