The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke...
Description:
Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
