Depicts a pretty and elegantly attired young lady standing outside a circulating library. She faces right, turned towards the viewer, a parasol under her right arm and a book in her left hand. The windows of the library are filled with displays of books and pictures
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Books, Window displays, Libraries, Umbrellas, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Title given in Latin, French, Spanish, and German., Below title: Med: Folo. No. 34; C.P.S.C.M., In margin upper right: 130., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
George Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V.
Subject (Name):
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
Subject (Topic):
Academic libraries, Libraries, Books, Ladders, and Scholars
Two classical figures stand on either side of a view of the interior of a library with its shelves filled with books and an arm chair on the right. Putti are shown in the foreground and in the image in various stages of engagement with books. In the banner above the dome of the alcove in the library reads 'Utile dulci'.
Description:
Title from caption in image., Place and date of creation inscribed below banner., and For further information, consult library staff.
Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Approximate date of publication based on that assigned to the companion print. See no. 15779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatues are daily pub. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on old album paper. Manuscript date "1828" in ink following title.