- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 31st, 1819.
- Call Number:
- 819.03.31.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A burlesqued tailor with a huge paunch and small legs stands in profile to the left, facing a gale and rain, encumbered with a little girl clinging to his neck, and by large roll of cloth under the right arm; he tries to open his umbrella, having placed his cane between his legs; tied to the handle in a handkerchief are books of patterns, which are blowing away, like his wig, hat, and the child's bonnet; his coat, with tape-measure, streams behind him ..." (Source: George)
- Alternative Title:
- Embarras des richesses
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Anchor symbol is the artist's mark of Frederick Marryat., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Drawn from the life on the Cliff Brighton., Five lines of verse from Byron's Bride of Abydos inscribed below title: Through rising gale and breaking foam and shrieking sea birds warned him home ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Tailors, Winds, Pattern books, and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- 1608
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 458
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.
- Description:
- Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century binding: Vellum case; stubs of two green ties., Manuscript on paper of Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Followed by Descriptive index for drawings (incomplete). Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r. Written in small neat italic., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Pattern books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Delle imboccature de'i cavalli
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 553
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper (unidentified watermark) of outline drawings of saints and prophets and 2 scenes from the New Testament, from a pattern book, with script headings
- Description:
- In Arabic. and Mounted between glass.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pattern books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Outline drawings from a pattern book