"Ticket to the Pantheon; a family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, ... cartouche at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., With embossed wafer seal in red ink of the "Society of Musicians" in lower left corner, and the concert details "Pantheon, Friday, May 16th, 1788" added in ink within blank cartouche at top of image., Imperfect; sheet torn in lower right corner resulting in loss of printmaker's signature. Trimmed to plate mark on left edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: C,2.1476-1483., Watermarked paper: LV., and With contemporary ink signatures of "Arnold" (for Samuel Arnold) and "Sandwich" (for the Earl of Sandwich, as Society committee members) to blank lower margin; verso with contemporary ink note "No. 158. Richard Sulivan Esq. Subscriber." For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Musical instruments, Families, and Dwellings
Berghe, Ignatius Joseph van den, 1752-1824, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1799]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Lozenges of Steel
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,2.3513., Engraved text providing an "Explanation of the emblematical print" is printed on verso: The figure on the right hand represents Infirmity, to whose assistance Medicine comes & points to the remedy inscribed on the Altar of Health., Below explanation on verso is printed a 17-line engraved advertisement: "Lozenges of Steel," a medicine possessed of the most extraordinary powers in the cure of those diseases which are occasion'd by intemperance, excess, and impropitious climate ... are prepared only by Dr. Senate, late of Soho Square, and sold at Mr. Pidding's Medicine Ware-House, No. 76 Oxford Street ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Berghe, Ignatius Joseph van den, 1752-1824, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1799]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Lozenges of Steel
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,2.3513., Engraved text providing an "Explanation of the emblematical print" is printed on verso: The figure on the right hand represents Infirmity, to whose assistance Medicine comes & points to the remedy inscribed on the Altar of Health., Below explanation on verso is printed a 17-line engraved advertisement: "Lozenges of Steel," a medicine possessed of the most extraordinary powers in the cure of those diseases which are occasion'd by intemperance, excess, and impropitious climate ... are prepared only by Dr. Senate, late of Soho Square, and sold at Mr. Pidding's Medicine Ware-House, No. 76 Oxford Street ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by cataloger., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with loss of all text apart from the tradesman's last name "Allen" just below image and the word "Hand" from the next line down., and On leaf 133 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 146 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by curator., "Composed by Mr. Chilcot"--Lower right corner of image., Numbered "18" above image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of musical notation., and On leaf 58 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
