In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
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
View at night of a fire blazing through the Houses of Parliament; firemen attack the flames with hoses; a large crowd gathers behind soldiers surrounding scene; several guards are seen in the left foreground
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand
Subject (Name):
Westminster Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Fire fighters, Crowds, Soldiers, and British
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
April 26th, 1834.
Call Number:
Print01027
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two battered Greenwich Pensioners, one missing all four limbs, the other an arm and a leg, in conversation outside a building marked 'The Helpless Ward' of the Hospital Infirmary, with three other severely incapacitated veterans beside it. The inscri...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr and Printed by S. Lingham, Bazzar, Grays Inn
"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
"A small table with three legs standing in centre, surrounded by two groups of men involved in the gambling game Thimble Rig; the operator of the game (Edward John Littleton), standing to right, with his hands on two of the three thimbles on the table...
Alternative Title:
Thimblerig
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866, Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Gambling, Tables, Spectators, and Conversation
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
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 city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[15 June 1834]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 19 Box 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to five designs in each row, individually titled. Starting with the largest design in its own row at top, "The cigar mania" shows a busy street scene with men and boys of all ages and social classes smoking cigars and dis...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using caption above largest design at top.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ, and Ross & Nightingale
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1834]
Call Number:
834.00.00.32
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ten individually titled designs on one sheet, including a comic depiction of gentlemen's fashions for the summer and a figure of a man made up of nine small tailors
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using captions below several of the images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst ; $a Manchester, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ ; $a Bristol, and Ross & Nightingale
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...
