Walker, James, approximately 1748-approximately 1822, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Holy Family resting during the Flight into Egypt; St Joseph standing beside the donkey, drawing his cloak around him, the Virgin laying the infant Jesus on a rock, holding the edge of His garment in right hand, gesturing with the other, two cherubs standing together and watching to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in Russian and English., Bible citation "St. Math. Chap. 2, Vir. 13" follows title in English; translation of the same follows title in Russian., Dedications to Catherine II engraved beneath each title, in Russian and English. Dedication in English: Dedicated to her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress and Autocratrix of all the Russias, by her most devoted and very humble servant, James Walker., From a series of prints published by Walker in 1792: A collection of prints, from the most celebrated pictures in the gallery of her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second., "From the original picture in the Imp. Gallery.", and In Russian and English.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, as the act directs by Jas. Walker and W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair and R. Blamire, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Family, Biblical events, Donkeys, and Putti
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
As part of the seduction of the wife of his Portuguese neighbor, Zelcuo meets their child while his nurse takes him to a secluded shady seat and pretends to be moved by his beauty
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Paper watermark: Edm [trimmed].
The young Zeluco with a defiant look on his face, crushes his pet bird in his right hand; a bird cage sits on a table to his left, its door standing open. To his right, his tutor looks back at him in horror
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore about to be executed in the courtyard of the castle. On the left, Theodore kneels down before the friar Jerome to pray, his shirt slipping down below his left shoulder to reveal the mark of a bloody arrow. Behind the friar stands Manfred, who ordered the execution, and several attendants; two guards holding pikes and a man carrying a sword stand behind the kneeling prisoner. At the far end of the courtyard on the right, the giant helmet sits in front of colonnades. In the background at center, the bordering colonnades are interrupted by a gray-colored section of the castle with arched windows and alcoves in which statues reside
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 100 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Executions, Prayer, and Helmets
Title from dealer's catalog., Signed and dated A.A. Trail. 1832 in lower left., and Inscribed on verso in unknown hand: No. 1, Youngest son of the Honble Thos Erskine by Ann Agnes Trail.
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; a young woman seated on a pedestal, touching a lyre on a table with her left hand, holding a quill pen in her right, turned and looking towards a putto who stands behind her; on the right, Cupid seated on floor, holding an arrow, covering his face with hands; in an oval; after Cipriani; state before artists' names, title, printer's name."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 7 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
