An assembly of men from a variety of walks of life assemble in a town square as a soldier prepares training. A small group of boys (right) whisper at their ineptitude
Description:
Title from caption below image., In stone, at lower left: Designed & executed on stone by D.C. Johnston No. 13 Franklin Street Boston., In stone, at lower right: Lith of Pendleton, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with 'A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin's / 124 High Holborn.'; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed 'Henry R'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at center of image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect? Sheet trimmed with possible loss of text from lower margin. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 2000,U.6) is lettered below image "Designed, drawn on stone, printed & published by R. Martin & Co., lithographers, 74 St. Martin's Lane, & 26 Long Acre.", and Mounted to: 21.2 x 29.5 cm.
A visualization of the racist folk song, "Coal Black Rose", one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface, popularized in July 1829. The lyrics of "Coal Black Rose" tells of a fight between two black men, Sambo and Cuffee, rivals for the same woman
Description:
Title from text below image, which are lyrics from the song sung by the depicted figures: Lubly Rose Oh! Coal Black Rose. Tank you Sambo yes I cum. Dont you hear the banjo tum, tum. Oh! Rose the Coal Black Rose. and Date from subject matter, the date when the song was popularized.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blackface minstrel music, Black people, Banjos, Ethnic stereotypes, and Minstrel shows
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
c1852.
Call Number:
852.00.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
General view of Sonora showing mining encampment
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +445: Four buildings numbered in manuscript with manuscript legend to the right of title., Title from caption., Drawn by G.H. Goddard., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to image border on upper edge.
Publisher:
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by G.H. Goddard in the clerks office of the dist. court of the Northern Dist. of Calafornia [sic] and Pollard & Brittons lith., Merchant Str
Eight topographical views, without text, showing Blenheim Palace; London Bridge; Netley Abbey; Windsor Castle; Ragland Castle; Shakespeare's birthplace; St. Ethelbert Tower, Canterbury; and St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol
Description:
Title from lettepress text on original wrappers., Some plates with veritical orientation, others horizontal., "A number of this work, containing four views, will be published regularly every fortnight"--Front wrapper, following statement of responsibility., Possibly all that was published of a proposed series of plates and accompanying text., Perhaps produced as a specimen for booksellers; on the back wrapper, the publisher requests that "book and printsellers will forward orders for this work as early as possible for their subscribers, as they will be entitled to the earliest and best impressions.", The prints "Netley Abbey", "Ragland Caste", "St. Ethelbert Tower Canterbury" and "St. Vincents Rocks Clifton", with imprint statement: Printed by N. Whitlock, 14 Paternoster Row., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietors, by B. Steill, 14, Paternoster-Row and sold by all book and printsellers
A fat lawyer clutching a purse is sped toward the flames of hell on a skeletal horse ridden by Death who is depicted as a skeleton carrying a scythe. A naked long-haired devil holding snakes pursues them on a snorting white horse, while in the foreground, beside a chained Cerberus, jubilant demons welcome the new arrival
Description:
Title from words etched in banner at top of image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Copy, after No. 6128 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, Chancery Lane and Printed by N. Chater
Subject (Topic):
Cerberus (Greek mythology), Lawyers, Hell, Horses, Horseback riding, Devil, Demons, and Death
A view of Walter Hancock's steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833
Description:
Title from item. and Laid on sheet: 56 x 38 cm. With C.J. Grant's The old and new stagers, or, Steam speed against a mile an hour! (No. 129 in the series Political drama).
Title from caption below image., Text below image identifies each subject in the group portrait., and Date of publication taken from years of partnership for Thomas and Eno. See entry in: Peters, H.T. America on stone.
Publisher:
Published by Caldwell & Co., 37 Park Row, New York
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799,, Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857,, Lewis, Nelly Custis, 1779-1852,, Washington, Martha, 1731-1802,, and Lee, William, ca. 1750-1828,