Carracaturas of the present age and Caricaturas of the present age
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster, Holbein's Gate -- Whitehall Banquetting House -- Sir Samuel Prime., Mounted to 35 x 50 cm., and Three subjects identified below image in an unknown hand. Additional annotation in another hand on mounting sheet, recto.
Publisher:
Sold by B. Dickenson on Ludgate Hill published according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Major G****n and lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '4' in upper right of plate., Fourth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr. Series title appears only on the first plate., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: crutches -- Diseases: gout -- Medical: hartshorn (smelling salts) -- Quacks -- Animals: dog -- Spas: Southampton -- Southampton: "Cripples Walk" -- Literature: paraphrase of Alexander Pope's Rape of the lock, canto ii,1.7., Two lines of paraphrase from Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope added in unknown contemporary hand to the right of the large female figure in the image., and Watermark.
Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady
Description:
In two parts, with separate titlepages, pagination and register., The second part is entitled 'Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady'., Each part has a final leaf of errata., Tipped in: Two small engravings of Hervey from Cooke's Classics., Tipped in: Two drawings. A wash drawing with pen and ink of a memorial to Anne Stonhouse; a pen and ink frontispiece with caption title: "He gave himself a ransom for all"., and With clipping (19th century) and unidentified ms. notes.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and J. Leake, at Bath
Subject (Topic):
Death, Spiritual life, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Handbill with a caption title., With a woodcut showing opened and closed umbrellas on either side of the royal coat of arms above title., and Ms. notes on verso: calculations in an unknown hand. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below the image, engraved on a separate plate (plate mark 3.9 x 22.8 cm.) and impressed below the image. Title preceded by the number "1.", "Pr. 1 shil.", Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Claudius Galenus, 130-200 -- Allusion to Hippocrates, 460-357 B.C. -- Medicine: pills -- Medicine bottles -- Weapons: cudgels -- Barrels -- Domestic service: black boy -- Tutors -- Quacks -- Wine glasses., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Clark, engraver and printseller in Gray's Inn
"A Portrait of John Law of Lauriston, Financier, Promoter of the Mississippi Scheme."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Four lines of verse in French in two columns below title: Sous l'auguste et sage regence d'un prince aimant la bonne foy ..., Plate 10 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Mounted to 47 x 30 cm., and Five lines of description in Dutch added below plate in an unidentified hand.
Actors include Mr Carr, Mr Williams, Mr Hope, Mr Mills, Mr Cummins, Mr Knight, Mr Carleton, Mr Bennett, Mr Wood, Mr Jones, Miss Elliott, Miss Mills, Mrs Ward, Mrs Knight, Mr Elliott, Mrs Elliott, Mrs Cummins, Miss Smith, Mrs Carr, Mrs French, Mrs Jarman., Playbill for a performance in York Theatre Royal on Friday Evening, August 23, 1805., Shawl., Ms. annotations on verso: "York 1805 Mr. Hall"., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from theatres in York, England]. [England], [1789-1805].
Publisher:
T. Wilson and R. Spence, Printers, High Ousegate, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and York.
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1762-1836. and Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Actors include Mr Cummins, Mr Williams, Mr Knight, Mr Melvin, Mr Carleton, Mr Bennett, Mr Elliott, Mrs Worthington, Miss Smith Mrs Cummins, Miss Mills, Mrs Carr, Mrs French, Mrs Knight, Mr Wood, Mr Hope, Mrs Jarman, Miss Jarman, Mrs Leng., Playbill for a performance in York Theatre Royal on Monday Evening, March 11th, 1805., From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from theatres in York, England]. [England], [1789-1805]., and The first of two copies of this playbill in the bound collection.
Publisher:
W. Blanchard, printer, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and York.
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. and Lewis, M. G. 1775-1818. (Matthew Gregory),
