"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
Portrait, three-quarter length; standing to right, looking to front; wearing a ruff and fur-trimmed cloak over doublet decorated with flowers and leaves; holding the hilt of his sword with his left hand
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood
Description:
Title from caption below image., Frontispiece to: Sawyer, Edmund. Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. London : T. Ward, 1725., Text under title: "Aetatis sua XLIX.", and In paper frame: 390 x 258 mm.
Engraving of the portrait of the novelist Eliza Haywood after the painting by Parmentier; oval bust, facing right, in rectangular frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756), English author and actress., and Mounted on wove paper with watermark: Whatman 1886.
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication based on dates of partnership between H. Overton and J. Hoole. See British Museum online catalogue., Later state? Printmaker signature mostly erased from lower right corner., Key to the lettered points of interest in image is etched on either side of title., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated on verso in a contemporary hand: N. 5960, 3 s.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by H. Overton & J. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate
A scene from La Calprenede's Cassandra used as the frontispiece to the 3rd edition and translated by Sir Charles Cotterell and published by John Darby in London, September 1725
Alternative Title:
Cassandra, Frontispiece, Volume 1
Description:
Title, imprint, and publisher from Paulson., "Vol: I"--Lower left corner below image., One of five frontispieces engraved for the five volume set of the third edition of Sir Charles Cotterell's English translation of La Calprenède's Cassandre, published by John Darby in 1725., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
John Darby
Subject (Name):
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
A scene in an encampment: two punished soldiers standing outside the headquarters, one holding a very long pole, the other with two blocks on his head, others looking on from both sides
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson. and One of fourteen illustrations created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. XV; see p. 129.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1170., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., and Mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1783-1810,
A shop bill for John Barker Goldsmith, at the Morocco Ambassadsor's Head in Lombard Street
Description:
Title from Paulson., Formerly attributed to Hogarth., Description from a note in Steevens's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 3 in volume 1.
