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132.
- Published / Created:
- [1790s?]
- Call Number:
- 790.00.00.89+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A perspective view, or vues d'optique, of the Covent Garden Market, looking towards Inigo Jones's St. Paul's Church, which is situated slightly to the right of center; in the foreground are shown vendors, carriages, pedestrians and other street life. The image is reversed for viewing through the lens of a Zograscope and designed to give the illusion of a deeper perspective, enhanced by the deep vanishing point and bright colour of the print
- Alternative Title:
- Vue perspective du Covent Garden, Vue du Couvent Garden, and Vue du Convent Garden
- Description:
- Title etched below image; alternative title etched in reverse above image: Vue du Couvent Garden., Date of publication from dealer's description., and "No. 92"--Upper right, above image.
- Publisher:
- Chez J. Chereau, rue St. Jacques au desses de la Fontaine St. Severin aux a Colonnes no. 257
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden Market (Westminster, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Churches, Markets, Pedestrians, Street vendors, and Cityscapes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vue perspective du Couvent Garden [graphic].
133.
- Published / Created:
- [1900?]
- Call Number:
- Portraits F831 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
- Description:
- Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.
- Publisher:
- Published by Godefroy Mayer, No. 15, Rue Pigalle
- Subject (Name):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
- Subject (Topic):
- Electricity and Inventors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Benjamin Franklin drawing electricity from the sky] [graphic]
134.
- Published / Created:
- [182-?]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A portion of a plate with a street scene: a run-away horse terrorizes four pedestrians one who tries to stop the horse with the point of his umbrella. A dog between his feet barks at the frightened horse. Only the rider's hands and out-stretched leg are visible from the right
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Accidents, Fear, and Horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Cropped image of four people startled by a run-away horse] [graphic].
135.
- Creator:
- Parrocel, Charles, 1688-1752, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1750?]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A traveling preacher stands before a crowd of citizens, vendors, and soldiers on a busy city street. He is pointing to a series of images of the crucifixion on the interior of the cover of his large traveling case; on the inside is what appears to be a statue of a martyr or Christ, hands bound, with two angels kneeling in prayer on either side. Signs in the form of playing cards hang from the eaves of the building. A woman in wooden shoes carries her wares (pears?) on a platform suspended round her waist
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Possibly by Charles Parrocel?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 35 x 24 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cobblestone streets, Crucifixions, Preaching, and Street vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [French street scene] [graphic].
136.
- Creator:
- Lignon, Etienne Frederic, 1779-1833, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1822]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Comtesse de Genlis, half-length, head turned to the left, with frilly bonnet and ruff, and coat fastened with belt; after Cheradame."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Comtesse de Genlis
- Description:
- Title from lettered state. See Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Object Number: G2368, Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Peint par Mme. Chéradame ; gravé par F. Lignon., Proof before letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "Se vend à Paris, chez Bouton, Md. d'Estampes, Boulevard Montmartre, No. 63" and the printer's statement "Imprime par Durand," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1879,0809.597., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 516 (leaf numbered '113' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Later ink annotation with the sitter's name "Madame de Genlis" below print, on mounting sheet.
- Publisher:
- Bouton and [Durand].
- Subject (Name):
- Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Madame Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest, Comtesse de Genlis] [graphic].
