Several designs, many with captions including a black coach driver; a fashionably dressed young black woman; a mother and child; a child with a doll; a scene in which whites hoe the ground under the watch of a black overseer, etc. In the center, the ...
Description:
Title from caption below central image.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Card games, Cats, Coach drivers, Infants, Mothers, and Water pipes (Smoking)
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 Hindoo...
Description:
Title from dealer's description.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
A man in sleepwear and a nightcap, his legs bare, stands sleepily in front of an open window holding a shotgun, an unmade bed behind him. On the sill of the window sit a candle and a plate of crumbs. Outside the window, in the distance, a cemetery is ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 96 Cheapside and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman St.
Subject (Topic):
Sleepwear, Game bird hunting, Rifles, Beds, Windows, Candles, Boots, Moon, and Cemeteries
A rotund man on the right, wearing a hat and a long coat with a bottle in the pocket, holds a pistol in the face of a frightened John Bull figure with a cane on the left. The threatening man holds out a document entitled "An act for the more severe ob...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Handguns, Threats, Bottles, Documents, Staffs (Sticks), and Fear
"Two statuettes, with caricature features of (left) the Duke of Wellington marked 'Oxford', the other of Brougham, marked 'Great Britain'. The statuettes are in the manner of the French sculptor Jean Pierre Dantan."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oxford ; Great Britain
Description:
Title from text below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Bird, 1 Wells St., Oxford St. and G.E. Madeley lith., 3 Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dantan, Jean-Pierre, 1800-1869, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868