An elaborate seal with several vines, flowers, and grasses entwined. Two dove-like birds are seen at the top of the design. An open book and a artist's palette with brushes are seen on either side of the outside of the design, near the beginning and e...
A coat of arms divided by a speckled saltire; with a winged spur in the top quadrant, and a fleur-de-lis in the remaining three. At the center of the saltire is a trefoil. At the helm, backed by leafing, is a knight's helmet; at the crest, atop a tors...
An oval-shaped crest with three roosters and a crescent at center. The oval is surrounded by elaborate mantling, and at the crest is a fourth rooster. Above this reads Vigilans et Audax. Beneath the crest is another motto, which reads Virtutum Doctrin...
Subject (Name):
Cockburne, David
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Birds, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
The entire plate is printed in blue-green ink. A shield with a checkered chief; below the field Argent is divided by a chevron Gules, with a rose at its center point. Surrounding the chevron are three fish; two above, one below. The shield is surround...
Subject (Name):
Macbride, David, 1726-1778
Subject (Topic):
Amorial, Armorial bookplates,, Birds, Fish, Physicians, Shield, and Surgeons
"A drinking scene; a drunken man carousing with two women, raising a glass into which Death, a crowned skeleton standing behind him, pours a liquid from a small bottle, a great quantity of steam or smoke rising off; one of the women lies asleep on the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Poisons, Skeletons, Birdcages, Birds, Dogs, Loss of consciousness, Eating & drinking, and Barrels
A dove with a leafed branch in its beak, surrounded by additional flora. Above the bird reads the phrase Deus Providerit. Below the plate owner's name is "Richmond Virginia."
"A dog facing a cat that stands over a dead bird with a dead deer on the bench beside them, after Jervas. Plate 38 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
