Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 21.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 57 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Bishop and George John, 2nd Earl Spencer
Alternative Title:
Rational gallant and Miss Bishop
Description:
Titles etched below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1784 p. 233., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Title from item., Proof with penciled imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Prophets -- Temples: Sacred to Liberty -- Cap of Liberty -- Britannia -- Wands -- Defeat of Fox-North Coalition -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Staff of Maintenance -- Prophecies., Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G R., and Mounted to 42 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by H. McPhail, N 68 High Holborn
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Shipton, Mother (Ursula)
A content-looking Charles Fox, with a chisel labeled, "vice," and a mallet labeled, "distruction," puts finishing touches on the bust of the Prince of Wales, while a frowning Lord North sharpens another chisel on a stone
Alternative Title:
Political sculptors
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publisli'd [sic] by E. Hedges No. 92 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Titles engraved below each of three images of seals., "Plate 2.", On sheet with another plate: Seal of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk ... [London] : [publisher not identified], [1784?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '1' in manuscript. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Titles engraved below each of three images of seals., "Plate 1.", With another plate on same sheet: Seal of John Howard, the first Duke of Norfolk ... [London, 1784?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '1' in manuscript. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
