"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman...
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman...
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Medicine, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, Nuns as nurses, Physician and patient, Death, Dead persons, Hospital wards, Physicians, Grief, Nuns, and Altars
"Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a s...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd March 1st, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"Men with a plague-cart burying victims at night in a field, one to left using a long hooked pole to pull the corpses from the cart into a pit; in a neo-classical frame; illustration to Barnard's 'History of England'." -- from British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Night, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
Plate [79] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Chapter title-page to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Edward V and Duke of York dead and lying in the centre, their heads to left; Duke of Gloucester and another man putting a cover over the boys' bodies; headpiece with plaque below ...
Alternative Title:
Murder of Edward the Fifth and of the Duke of York
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483,, Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483,, and Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485,
Anatomy, Comparative, Human dissection, Memento mori, Science museums, Medical tools & equipment, Surgical instruments, Dead persons, Skeletons, and Spectators
Se vend à Paris chez Helman, Graveur de Madame, Rue St. Honoré, vis-à-vis l'Hotel de Noailles, No. 315 and Chez Ponce, Graveur de Mgr. Comte d'Artois, Rue St. Hiacinte, No. 19.
Subject (Topic):
Upas, Criminals, Plant toxins, Death, Trees, Harvesting, and Dead persons
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Manfred depicted full-length on the right, facing left with his arms out in front of him, a horrified expression on his face. He's watching six servants on the left h...
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords