Each card shows music and lyrics from John Gay's Beggar's opera and a small standard playing card inset in the upper left corner; red suits with stencil colored pips; no tax stamp; maker's details on king of clubs, 10 of spades and ace of hearts
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Composition of deck: 52 (A, K, Q, J, 10-2)., and All cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic, each board 40 x 54.5 cm; together with a folder of notes (printed and handwritten) mostly regarding the Beggar's Opera on which the cards are based, including manuscript notes prepared (presumably by Dudley Ollis) for a talk on this theme. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three butterflies/moths and a beetle, and the other depicting three insects (a moth on a leaf, a butterfly, and a crane fly).
Alternative Title:
Three insects
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 7 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postillion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air
Alternative Title:
Changing horses on the road to Paris
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower left., and One of five views by the artist F.G. Byron that record his visit to France in 1790; they were exhibited at the Society of Artists the following year. This drawing was exhibited under the title "Changing horses on the road to Paris" (Society of Artists, 1791, no. 39).
Subject (Geographic):
Clermont (France) and France.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Taverns (Inns), Postillions, French, Peasants, Country life, Ethnic stereotypes, and Drums (Musical instruments)
A possibly female figure wearing male attire writing a letter at a table before a window in a study or library. Books fill shelves in the rear while two others lie open on the table, one title Le Code de Cithere
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Title from item., Imperfect; cropped within plate mark., Pencilled on verso: "pour Rʹetif avant lettre...", i.e. possibly an illustration from a work of Restif de La Bretonne., and Mounted to 27 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
Subject (Topic):
Letter writing, Interiors, Libraries (Rooms), and Writing
BEIN GER124: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Type: XP-4, Composition of deck: 32 [A, K, Q, J, 10-7]., Ace of Hearts: [pip] / [logotype] "KARTENKUNST" / SPIELKARTENFABRIC / BAD REICHENHALL., K-König (king); D-Dame (queen); B-Bube (jack)., and Stamp on Ace of Hearts, purple: Deutsches Reich / 2M / Nr. 176 [?] / [eagle].
Payen, Jean-Pierre, 1683-1757, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
FRA166
Image Count:
28
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN FRA166: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Type: Marseille tarot., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., 2 of Coins: JEAN PIERRE PAYEN ANO. 1713; 2 of Cups: I PIERRE PAYEN., and Single figure trumps.
Payen, Jean-Pierre, 1683-1757, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1735?]
Call Number:
FRA165
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN FRA165: Imperfect: lacking Ace of Coins, Ace of Cups; Knight, Jack of Swords; King, Queen, Jack of Coins; Queen, Jack of Cups; 10, 8-5, 3 of Swords; 10, 7, 6, 2 of Coins; 7 of Cups, trumps II-IX, XI, XIV, XVII, XX, XXI. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Type: Marseille tarot., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., 2 of Cups: IEAN PAYEN / A LA PLACE / DE ST. DIDIER / A / AVIGNON., and Single figure trumps.
Faucil, Valery, active approximately 1500-approximately 1516, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1500?]
Call Number:
FRA2S
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN FRA2S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Type: Rouen 1., Composition of deck: unkown., and CourtCards: Jack of Spades: Hogier; Jack of Hearts: Valery F; Jack of Diamonds: Rolant; Jack of Clubs: Lancelot.
