"Rechab, a male nude, rushing into a room from the right and lunging forward as he falls to his knees before David, holding up the severed head of Saul's son Ishbosheth in his right hand and pointing upwards with the other."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate from: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ... . London: J. Murray [etc.], 1789-1798., Publication information based on that of the volumes in which the print was issued., and Title devised by cataloger.
Head and shoulders of Isaac D'Israeli, in profile to the right, with features exaggerated. Notes by the artist scribbled above and below image.
Description:
Annotation (signature?) in lower right in pencil: Gillray delin., Date based on publication date of the print entitled "Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks! ...", which includes a similar but reversed depiction of D'Israeli in profile. Cf. No. 9923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine., James Gillray, English caricaturist, 1756-1815., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Disraeli, Isaac,--1766-1848--Caricatures and cartoons., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Explosion in the Duke of Atholl, at anchor in the Madras Road, with group of sailors and women in a boat rowing away from the disaster; in the background a view of the harbour of Madras."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state with lettering.
Alternative Title:
Duke of Athole, East Indiaman and Duke of Atholl, East Indiaman
Description:
Proof state before letters; print later issued with the imprint: Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1785, by R. Wilkinson, No 58 Cornhill. and Title, printmaker, and publication information from later state. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13496.
"Shipwreck of the Nancy packet returning from India in a stormy sea off the Scilly Isles, with group of women, children and sailors in wrecked boat; people clinging to pieces of wood under raging waves at right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state.
Description:
Proof state before letters. and Title, printmaker, and publication information from published state. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13497.
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Possibly a proof state before title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3321. and Title from British Museum online catalogue.
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham. and Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
J. Hatchard, No. 190 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hatchard, John, 1768-1849 publisher., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814 artist.
