"Orléans (Égalité), looking to the right, stands on the scaffold dressed as a grenadier of the National Guard. He holds out by the hair the decollated head of Louis XVI, while he waves his cap in his right hand. Behind (left) is the guillotine, with the King's body; streams of blood pour from head and trunk. Below the scaffold (right) are heads and bayonets of the National Guard, and, behind, two large buildings, the windows and roofs filled with spectators; those on the roof wave their hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text below title: Behold the progress of our system.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 12, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793.
Subject (Topic):
History, Guillotines (Punishment), and Decapitations
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Engraved broadside with six stanzas of verse, 2 staves of music for flute at the bottom of sheet, and an illustration above title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1720.
Title from item. and Trimmed, mounted, and bound in following page 392 in the second volume of an extra-illustrated copy of: Bayley, J. History and antiquities of the Tower of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1473-1554, and Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1473-1554.
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., and Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece.
Half-length portrait of William Hogarth, facing viewer, slightly turned to the right; he holds a palette in his left hand
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Hogarth., Page from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. ii, frontispiece., On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 19.1 x 12.8 cm., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to side of print: From S. Ireland's Graphic Illustrations &c.
A volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram (1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Venice and took instruction from Venetian etcher Francesco Novelli. Most of the prints bear the monogram of one of the Ingram sisters and are dated 1816 -1821. The works include images after Rembrandt, Ostade, Pietro Novelli, and other artists, Continental views, views of Hartlepool and Newcastle, and a vignette after Bewick. Also included is an image signed "IG' and dated 1824
Alternative Title:
Etchings
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of album based on internal evidence., With a manuscript gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1867., Bound in dark half morocco., and For further information, consult library staff.
A volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram 1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Venice and took instruction from Venetian etcher Francesco Novelli whose own etchings were in manner of Rembrandt and whose influence can be seen in the sisters' etchings. The style of the various impressions is very similar and were apparently made within a fairly short period if the dated prints are an accurate indication; some of the prints bound in first are dated February 1816 and then March 1816. This dating seems to be confirmed by a contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper: "These are the works of the Miss Ingrams' from their first lesson, 18..." Only five of the prints are unsigned; several prints in multiple impressions or two or more states, using brown and black inks and various stocks of paper, a few bearing a British watermark and date of 1814. Some of the prints have been mounted, but most have been printed directly on contiguous leaves forming the signatures of the volume
Alternative Title:
Etchings, gradations
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of album based on internal evidence of some dated etchings, all '1816'., Also with inscription on front pastedown: Minnie Snowden, with John Johnson's kind regards and good wishes, Jan. 4, 1906., Bound in contemporary half calf, front cover detached and first leaves loose., and Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. Front board and first signature detached. Pages slip-stiched; decision to leave as is. Do not rebind. For further information, consult library staff.
Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
A collection of pictorial conundrum cards from various unidentified sets of cards trimmed from larger sheets of etched images; also a single drawing signed "R. Ck." suggesting it is his work on the largest set (incomplete) of 19 cards. The other four sets, also incomplete, are grouped by the similarity in style and letterforms. All cards contain a humorously named person with an image and a riddle. Presumably the sheet from which these images were cut contained the answers to the riddles. Queen Victoria and Sir Edwin Eglinton (the Eglinton Tournament 1839) suggest the possible date of 1840
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Each card shows an illustration and a query., Date range estimated base on pictorial images and design., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Tim Bobbins the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... by Timo. Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Literature: reference to Plato's Dialogues., and Mounted on verso is description in verse of the image: Plate 20. The querest [sic] contrast which my fancy uet / Hath sketched out, is here before you set ...
Publisher:
John Heywood?
Subject (Name):
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 and Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782
