Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 100 short English verses concerning such subjects as friendship, nature, and deaths of family members. Titles and authors include The Child’s First Grief by Baxter, Walking Out into the Fields by "Miss Anna Maria Porter," and Lines on a Wild Rose, by "Eliza Thomas 18th June 1831." The volume also includes several verses about album-writing, including a preface titled Address to an Album signed "M. B. 1828," The Album’s Petition, and an untitled poem beginning "Write for an album! What a task for me!" by Selina Barker. 27 detailed watercolor and pencil drawings of flowers, birds, butterflies, country views, harbor scenes, and architectural subjects, several of them touched with gilt, are interspersed throughout the volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --19th century
Subject (Name):
Barker, Selina, Baxter, Mary, Herbert, George, 1593-1633, Porter, Anna Maria, Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, and Thomas, Eliza
Subject (Topic):
English literature --19th century, English poetry --19th century, Farewells in literature, Friendship --Poetry, Riddles, Sentimentalism in literature, Watercolor painting --19th century --England, and Women authors
Copy of the 2nd state of the print by Ravenet after Hogarth's design. Corporal Trim stands with his back to the viewer as he reads a sermon upon Conscience. Dr. Slop sleeps in an armchair on the left beside the fireplace, his chin resting on his large belly. In the background Uncle Toby and Walter Shandy sit smoking. Behind them in the corner against the wall is a grandfather's clock and on the wall Toby's map of the fortifications of Namur. A three-cornered hat is shown on the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 233
Entering from the right, Walter Shandy, having had trouble pulling on his pants, arrives too late to prevent the curate from baptizing his newborn son with the hated name of Tristram
Description:
Title from original print on which this reversed copy is based. See Paulson., "Vol. II, page 221"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 234., and On page 186 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs Jany. 14th 1780 by W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Dodsley, G. Robinson, & J. Murray, &c. &c.
Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum et mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata. ; Additis eiusdem argumenti
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Conrad seen lying under an enormous helmet at the left end of a large, open courtyard. The helmet, topped by large black feathers, obscures all of Conrad's body except for his legs. A crowd has gathered and several men attempt to lift the helmet off its victim. In the background the arched colonnades of the castle terminate in an arched gate on the right; a round tower rises at center above the colonnades. In the left foreground is a wall with an arched window above an arched door, an armorial shield mounted between them
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 5 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Helmets, and Dead persons
In the foreground a man is shown nailed to a cross (center) and another (right) is tied to a stake and being eaten by two wild beasts (lions?). In the distance a man is being burned at the stake on the outskirts of a camp with tents; on the left a man is tossed off a cliff by soldiers
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., Print created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. VI; see p. 64., On page 24 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 4.6 x 7.6 cm., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Precipitation, Crucifixion, Burning &c.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beaver, John
Subject (Topic):
Crucifixions, Executions, Military camps, Roman, Punishment & torture, and Soldiers
Cymbeline's palace in Britain: Standing behind a pillar, Posthumus ties a keepsake around Imogen's wrist as she looks over her shoulder fearfully at the king on the right as he angrily throws aside a curtain, catching them in the act
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from published state. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side.
Publisher:
John & Josiah Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, and Cunobelinus, King of the Britons, -43?
