Cave, François Morellon La, active approximately 1700-1766, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1739]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Alternative Title:
To all to whom these presents shall come
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., Added title from caption below image., Signed: By order of the said governors & guardians., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Power of Attorney. See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 253., and On page 101 in volume 2.
Title from the British Museum catalogue., Place, publisher, and publication date from book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven lines of verse below image: Heere [sic] to the church, one of her youngest sonnes ..., Frontispiece to: Catholike history / Edward Chisenhale., and Temporary local subject terms: Devils -- Rebellion against popery -- Allusion to Reformation -- Ecclesiastical emblems: popery -- Gog and Magog -- Arms of the Chisenhale family -- Literature: Catholike history, by Edward Chisenhale, d. 1654 -- Protestant Church -- Catholic Church -- Churches.
Publisher:
N. Brooks
Subject (Name):
Innocent X, Pope, 1574-1655 and Chisenhale, Edward, d. 1654
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Description:
"Page 312. Don Quixote. Pl. 3."--Above image., Title from original Hogarth print. Added titles from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 94., and On page 86 in volume 1.
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Alternative Title:
Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella vindicating herself and Don Quixote: The funeral of Chrysostom
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Vol. I, p. 71."--Lower left, below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 86 in volume 1.
Title assigned by cataloger based on letterpress text below., Publication information extrapolated from that of Walpole's Works., Head-piece illustration to a verse by Horace Walpole with caption title: The funeral of the lioness : a fable imitated from La Fontaine., Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London, 1798, v. 4, page 377., and Watermark: 1797.
"The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
Pen and ink drawing depicting a large gaming room decorated with a single chandelier, a large mantel holding vases and candles, and framed paintings on the walls. Guests are seated around two tables playing card games while other guests stand together in groups
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Games, Card games, Chandeliers, Mantels, and Rooms & spaces
"A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Accidents, Skeletons, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Hourglasses
A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Description:
Title from ms. note. Date from curator., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above sheet: Gin-Drinkers. Spurious., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below sheet: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 429., and On page 154 in volume 2.
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from style of work., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Good Samaritan (Parable)., Medicine in the Bible, Charity, Wounds and injuries, Healers, Sick persons, Donkeys, Wounds & injuries, and Cityscapes