"A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar,...
Alternative Title:
Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
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
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038 أبو نعيم الإصبهاني، أحمد بن عبد الله، 948-1038
Published / Created:
1765.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 1072
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Juzʼ fī faḍl al-dīk", a treatise on the traits and virtues of the domestic rooster, by Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038), a prolific author, a Ḥadīth scholar, a historian, a biographer, and frequent traveler, teacher of the well...
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 948-1038.
"A cock with the head of Wellington stands tied to a peg, on a round board, supported on a low post (right). A short truculent-looking woman in a man's patched coat, with a bundle of sticks under her arm, stands beside the bird, which is undamaged and...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
"A hen with a man's face (Sir Robert Peel), standing on a shore at right, watching over a group of ducks taking to the water (among them Queen Victoria and Prince Albert), looking at a bird with a man's face on the opposite shore (King Louis-Philippe)...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed at the General Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., and France.
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Kings, Ducks, Roosters, and Bodies of water
"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kne...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
George IV, with the body a rooster, stands on the "Green Bag" of evidence and looks back over his shoulder at the Queen; from his beak is a speech bubble reading "Rejected Bill," while an eagle with the words "Public Disapprobation" on its wings snatc...
Alternative Title:
Royal hen, and the dunghill cock
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published November 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Roosters, Eagles, Bags, Crowns, Mistresses, Sailing ships, Official residences, Axes, Justice, Scales, and Daggers & swords
"William IV, as Mars, in Roman armour, stands defiantly in a war-chariot drawn by three galloping horses, ridden by Discord, a virago with serpents for hair, who brandishes a handful of serpents. He holds a shield inscribed 'Signed Protocols', and a l...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840, and Mars (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Armor, Chariots, Snakes, Shields, Spears, Firearms, Soldiers, Dutch, Prussian, National emblems, Bears, Frogs, and Roosters
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robb...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
