Frontispiece to Charles Gildon's The new metamorphosis (London : Sam. Briscoe, 1724) shows Apuleius on the left and Lucian on the right each with an ass with the modern adaptor in the middle. Below the figures of Apuleius and Lucien are two satyrs; be...
Alternative Title:
Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Sam. Briscoe
Subject (Name):
Apuleius.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Authors, Children, and Couples
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, disc...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
From left to right, Lieutenant Doyle, Mr. Sone and Captain Foster, all from the 24th Regiment, walking to the right with three ladies on the North Bridge
Description:
Title and printmaker from volume.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Doyle, William, active 1784., Sone, Samuel., and Foster, William, active 1784.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Clothing & dress, Military uniforms, and British
A man holds a lady's hand as she descends a flight of stairs overlooking a pond. To the left in the distance are shown two figures in a row boat on the water
Description:
Inscription in pencil on verso: Cut mount to fit shape of inlay piece.
