Plate [4] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; primitive landscape with jugate heads of Arthur and Guinevere(?) inscribed 'the Britons' on a stone amidst a pile of weaponry, smoke behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image; the final letter "s" is mostly obscured by the fletching of the depicted arrows., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [4] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"View of the Monument, on Fish Street Hill; carts and carriages on street; a farmer herding cows and sheep in left foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Collone de Londres elevé pour une perpetuelle resouvenance de lincendre generalle de cette ville en 1666
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on form of printseller's name in imprint: Bowles and Carver partnership began in 1793. See British Museum online catalogue., Later reissue of a print first published in 1751 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Window mounted to 36 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Wilkinson in Cornhill & Bowles & Carver, No. 69, St. Pauls Church Yard
The scene from Acts, Chapter 12, verse 17 in which an angel leads Peter through the door from his prison while the Roman soldier sleeps at the foot of the steps outside
Description:
Title engraved below image., "The Acts Chap. 12 Verse 17.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. July 6, 1793, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall, & J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Peter, Saint, -304.
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Biblical events, Sleeping, Soldiers, and Roman
A copy in the same direction after the engraving by Hogarth titled 'The Company of Undertakers'. Sixteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez
Description:
Title etched below image., "Wm. Hogarth del." erased from this impression; surmised from earlier state in the British Museum. See Registration number: 1935,0522.1.40., Numbered "193" in lower left corner., Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians., Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ...", Copy of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2308., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, map & printsellers, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., One of a series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Madam, ther's [sic] not a man of the profession in Europe that can cut a corn ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Physicians: corn doctors -- Chiropodists -- Knives -- Female costume, 1793 -- Furniture: ladderback chairs -- Furnishings: wall panelling -- Women -- Children: girls.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20th 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Plate [35] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; the assasination of Thomas Becket, wrestled to his knees by a gang of four knights, one raising a bludgeon above him, his mitre and staff fallen at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [35] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Plate [6] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page to Chapter I.II.III of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England', with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Roman soldiers jumping from a boat into the water, watched by a crowd on the bank at left, crowds of soldiers behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [6] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of a series of 'Drolls.', One line of text below image: Indeed, Mr. Fribble, I am not to be done in this manner ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: shops -- Milliner's shop -- Trades: milliner -- Yardsticks., and Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"A scene in the small courtyard of a London inn, at which a stage-coach has just arrived. A stout lady is getting out of the coach, larger in scale than the other figures; the coachman is taking game, &c, from the box. A short stout 'cit' yawns and stretches. Another man looks sourly at his watch; packages lie on the ground, including a hamper directed to 'Alderman Guttle'. A smiling waiter (right) invites the company to enter the inn. Through the folding gates of the yard is seen a street with a distant church."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue no. 6758., Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Variant of no. 6758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Clothing & dress
An Arawak native slits the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. Captain Stedman, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
Description:
Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 2d, 1793 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Name):
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797,
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Hunting, and Snakes
