A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
publish'd February 5, 1752 according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 2
Collection Title:
Leaf 36. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The child Moses is being delivered up by his mother Jochebed (who has been acting as wet nurse) to Thermuthis, the daughter of Pharaoh (Exodus, ii.10; after the painting in the Foundling Museum); to right, the mother/nurse is handed coins by a steward as her son clings to her and looks at his adoptive mother warily; to the left, two female attendants, one a Nubian enslaved woman whispers the secret of Moses identity to her colleague. The scene is identified as being in Egypt by a small crocodile and an Egyptian figure with a snake wrapped around its torso beneath the throne; in the left corner an incense burner. In the background are pyramids and a sphinx
Alternative Title:
Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital., Second state with caption. See Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 324., Sheet trimmed to: 41.7 x 51.1 cm., and Formerly on page 162 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Name):
Moses (Biblical leader), and Thermuthis (Biblical figure),
publish'd February 5, 1752 according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 33K Box 310
Collection Title:
Leaf 36. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The child Moses is being delivered up by his mother Jochebed (who has been acting as wet nurse) to Thermuthis, the daughter of Pharaoh (Exodus, ii.10; after the painting in the Foundling Museum); to right, the mother/nurse is handed coins by a steward as her son clings to her and looks at his adoptive mother warily; to the left, two female attendants, one a Nubian enslaved woman whispers the secret of Moses identity to her colleague. The scene is identified as being in Egypt by a small crocodile and an Egyptian figure with a snake wrapped around its torso beneath the throne; in the left corner an incense burner. In the background are pyramids and a sphinx
Alternative Title:
Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital., Second state with caption. See Paulson., and Laid paper; sheet trimmed to 42.0 x 52.0 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Name):
Moses (Biblical leader), and Thermuthis (Biblical figure),
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "With pleasure we lay before the"., In two columns with the title in four lines centered above both and the imprint below the second column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 63. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3., and Ms. inscription added above title: Battle in Egypt.
Publisher:
Davenport, Printer, George's-court
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Name):
Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:
[1834-1836]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:
111
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoos / drawn on the blocks by Wm. Westall, A.R.A. 1835 (ca. [32] p.); British Canada 1835 ([8] p.); British costume ([3] p.); Old English sports ([8] p.); a group of 10 pages (some blank) with Roman ruins and other historic sites in Spain and Portugal; Illustrations of the Modern Egyptians / drawn on the blocks by the Author, Edwd. Wm. Lane Esq. 1836 (24 p.). Many of the ilustrations are captioned in blank ink by the same hand; others prints with pencil notations
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Bound in original black half morocco over marbled boards, spine decorate in gilt and upper cover with morocco label lettered "Scrap-book.", With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Coates. Below bookplate, slip of paper with the name and address of Mrs. Algernon Warren., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain