An engraved trade card advertising "Bank Eating-House" in the City of London
Description:
Title from item., Date based on death date of Mr. Malkins (i.e., 1793 in the National Archives at Kew)., Card trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings for the 75th, 116th, 136th, and 141st days in Westminster Hall, each signed by (presumably) the chamberlain for the day -- Chedworth, Somerset, Darlington, Dorchester. Two are printed in black ink, another in blue, and the fourth in green ink; they all carry seals. Three contain comments in a contemporary hand about the day's proceedings praising Sir Robert Dallas's defense, commenting on the fact of Mr. Pitt's reply, and evaluating Edmund Burke's remarks on his second day of speeches. The ticket for the 116th day contains extensive notes on the verso. The ticket of 136th mentions Mr. Fox's reply to Hasting's counsel. Three of the tickets have been torn in the corner, possibly when the bearer entered the hall?
Description:
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident of Murshidabad; appointed to the Calcutta council in 1761; a member of the Madras council in 1769; made governor of Bengal in 1772; and appointed the first Governor-General of India in 1773. However, Hastings resigned in 1784, and, returning to England, was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke. He was impeached for corruption in 1787 but was acquitted in 1795., In English., Engraved admission tickets with mss. notations., With Hasting's coat of arms in the center with text around image: For the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Peter Burrell Dy. Great Chamberlain., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804., Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824., Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Somerset, Charles Henry, Lord, 1767-1831.
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., and Mounted on page 77 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Mounted on page 100 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 9.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Plate [41] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior of the palace dungeon at night, where King John's men are gathered with torches, preparing to murder Prince Arthur, who kneels in the centre, pleading with Hubert, who stands on the left holding a dagger and seizing the prince's wrist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [41] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Robt. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall and Printed by J. Shoveller
Plate [28] 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 V of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Rufus lying on the ground in a forest with an arrow in his chest, his horse standing over him, the archer fleeing at right and stags at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Death of William Rufus
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [28] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [25] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for Chapter IV; five men bowing before the king, one pointing to the Doomsday book, which is held by another, and gesturing as he addresses William I, who sits to right, another holding a cross; a descriptive plaque below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doomsday Book presented to William the First
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [25] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery
