The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
"The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; ... with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin."--British Museum onli...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Imp. A. Quantin
Subject (Geographic):
France and Ferney-Voltaire.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778 and Château de Ferney (Ferney-Voltaire, France)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Portraits
Collection of "Prologues" and "Epilogues" and other verses in an unidentified hand, circa 1750 to 1788, some performed at the Austen family home at Steventon. There are four pieces written by Rev. James Austen, Jane Austen's eldest brother, performed ...
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke...
Description:
Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other p...
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
