Half-length, oval portrait in a square, shown in profile. The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence tentatively identifies her as Mme. Frotier-de-la-Messalière. See: The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 6, pages 344-347, 3...
Published April 21st.1856, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East--Publishers to Her Majesty, Day & Son Lithrs. to the Queen, and Depose Paris, Goupil & Cie, Leipzig, Otto Weigel
Subject (Name):
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Subject (Topic):
Crimean War, 1853-1856, Military hospitals, Wounds and injuries, Treatment, Nursing, War casualties, Nurses, Physicians, Soldiers, Hospital wards, Stoves, and Writing materials
A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left...
Alternative Title:
Assault and Fencing match
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published by Corbeau at Paris and by Robinde at London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810., and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seat...
Description:
Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.