Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
A scene in a bedroom, the bed in a niche behind a curtain, one man sits as he is being shaved by his servant, as a companion stands with his arms crossed. To their left is an open trunk wotj slippers and boots on the ground on the far left. A fourth m...
Alternative Title:
Shanks Leggs servant shaving him
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower margin, in the artist's hand.
Subject (Name):
Nixon, John, -1818,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Shaving, Servants, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Fireplaces
Two drawings by John Pope of United States Army forts in West Texas. The drawing of Fort Davis is ink and wash over graphite and measures 20 x 32 cm.; it is inscribed on the lower right "Ft Davis Head Quarters 8th Infantry on road from Horsehead X of ...
Description:
John Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 16, 1822, the son of Nathaniel and Lucretia Backers Pope. He attended West Point from 1838 to 1842, and was brevetted second lieutenant in the topographical engineers. Pope served with the United St...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Texas, Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort), and Fort Lancaster (Tex.)
Manuscript describes the career of John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810) in detail and includes discussion of his painting techniques. There are frequent mentions of the Royal Academy. Accompanied by seven related pieces concerning the Rigaud and Dutilh fam...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dutilh family., Rigaud family., Rigaud, J. F. 1742-1810. (John Francis),, Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh, 1777-1861., and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
"Portrait seen seated half-length within rectangular frame, almost in profile to left drawing, eyes to front; wearing plain coat and necktie."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1805, by J. Harris, Gerrard Street, Soho
Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1790?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.191
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in th...
Alternative Title:
Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Description:
Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
The collection consists sketchbooks, correspondence, documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs documenting the life and career of the American painter, etcher, and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt. Prominent in the collection are sixteen bound commercial...
Description:
Henry Martyn Hoyt, an American painter, etcher, and poet, was born in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1887, the son of Henry Martyn Hoyt (1856-1910, Yale 1878) and Anne McMichael Hoyt. His father, a lawyer, held positions in the offices of the Unite...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Nahant (Mass.), Rome (Italy), and Spain
Subject (Name):
Hoyt, Anne McMichael, 1861-1949., Hoyt, Henry Martyn, 1887-1920., Parker, Eleanor Kinzie Gordon, 1858-1933., Shurtleff, Alice Gordon Parker, 1885-1951., and Folsom Galleries.
