The interior of a coffee-house, the customers, with one exception, deeply interested and dismayed at the news in a 'Gazette Extraordinary'. On each side of the room is an oblong table flanked by wooden settees. Between the tables and in the center of the design three men stand, one of whom reads from a 'Gazette Extraordinary'. His two companions look at him with scowling attention; one, his hat under his arm, has both hands thrust deep into the pockets of his coat; the other holds his forehead, from which his wig has been pushed back. A dog gazes up at them. At the table on the left a man sits in full face gaping with dismay, his hands rest on the table grasping his knife and fork. Two men sit on opposite sides of the table on the right; one holds a glass in his left hand, while he looks up at the group with the newspaper. His vis-à-vis has turned sideways, his hands on his knees, with an expression of melancholy alarm. Behind him, one hand on the back of the settle, stands John Wilkes, conspicuous by his squint and his characteristic wig; he holds a glass of wine and frowns. At his side is a man leaning back asleep. -British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in ink below image., Artist's signature and date inscribed in ink in the artist's hand below image., Published etching after this drawing described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5923., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Newspapers, Debates, and Discussions
publish'd according to an act of Parliament, [1760]
Call Number:
Quarto 75 Sa5 760
Collection Title:
Leaf 1. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman standing by a peep-show into which assorted children are looking."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Douze des cris de Londres
Description:
Title in English and French etched in and below image., Title page and first plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price three shill.", and 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 22.4 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 23.3 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at F. Vivarez, engraver in Newport Street, and by P. Sandby next door to the Fountain in Broad Street, Carnaby Market
publish'd according to an act of Parliament, [1760]
Call Number:
760.00.00.24
Collection Title:
Leaf 1. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman standing by a peep-show into which assorted children are looking."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Douze des cris de Londres
Description:
Title in English and French etched in and below image., Title page and first plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price three shill.", Title in English and French and 'Part 1' in the remainder of the title erased from this impression., Watermark: Britannia., and Window mounted to 32 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at F. Vivarez, engraver in Newport Street, and by P. Sandby next door to the Fountain in Broad Street, Carnaby Market
Errata: 8 lines on p. xv., Imperfect: p. 17-18, 657-658, and all after p. 686 wanting. Date of publication and part of publisher's names torn from t.-p.; plate 3 mutilated., Includes index., and Page xv misnumbered vx.
Final page blank., Signatures: [A]-D²., Not in ESTC., Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v.1: No. 19 in a bound collection of catalogues, owned by Horace Walpole, with notes in an unidentified hand. Also with a drawing of a man playing a violin, possibly by Horace Walpole, in pen and ink over graphite., LWL: Ms copy, laid in Graves' collection of catalogues., and Bound to 25 cm.
Scotland drawn and engraved from a series of angles and astronomical observations
Description:
Title from cartouche., Engraved throughout., Relief shown by contour lines and pictures., Scale of miles 69 1/2 to a degree., Another imprint: "Published according to Act of Parliament Jan. 1st. 1789 by John Ainslie ... and William Faden ..." at bottom of sheet., Inset maps: "Shetland Islands laid down upon a less scale than the map ... "; "A Map of the Orkney Islands ...", Distance tables and lists of heights of hills and roads from Edinburgh to London., Edinburgh meridian, with note of degrees from Greenwich., Title cartouche shows men fishing and herding cattle, with sheep goats and foliage., Six compass roses., This issue not in Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland., and Scotland.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by the proprietor Thomas Brown, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament with improvements till 1800 by Thomas Brown ... Edinburgh and William Faden ... London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Orkney (Scotland), Shetland (Scotland), Scotland., Orkney., and Shetland.
Manuscript fragment on parchment (upper half of a leaf) of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, XVIII.41-42.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in a splendid large uncial with very few abbreviations. On f. 1v the two final letters of the last word on the top line ("habere") have been supplied in Anglo-Saxon minuscule; on line 6 the two final letters of the last word ("praemisimus") are supplied in smaller uncial script., The parchment is thin with greasy transparent patches and a hole (before writing) close to its lower edge., and Later the fragment was used as a flyleaf; an early owner wrote alongside the right-hand edge of f. 1v the ownership inscription "Liber iste est fratris Reyneri de Capella. Orate pro eo".
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:
Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
