A comic map of Great Britain: an old woman is shown in profile, facing to the left, and seated on the back of a dolphin-like monster. At the top her cap is Scotland; her neck is labeled R. Tees (River Tees) and along her back is "Humber" and "The Wash" The mouth of the creature is labeled "Thames". The other points on the map are: Isle of Wight and Bristol Channel, Cardogan Bay, and Anglesea (a bird perched on the woman's out-stretched hand).
Alternative Title:
Britannia
Description:
Title supplied by artist above design., Added title supplied by cataloger, based on the Gillray print of which this is a copy., Signed and dated by the artist in lower margin., and Drawn after James Gillray's print "Britannia", published 25 June 1791. Cf. No. 8045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"A witch-like old woman floats in the air in profile to the left, playing an Irish harp. An infant is at her back, supported by her cloak. Beneath her is a pleasant landscape with a waterside town and a background of low mountains. Under the title: 'This Portrait of Lady Hibernia Bull is humbly dedicated to her Husband the great Mr John Bull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Ireland
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: This portrait of Lady Hibernia Bull ..., and Text below title erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland
Subject (Topic):
Harps, Leprechauns, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, Irish, and Witches
Sailing ships in the harbor watch over American troops camped in tents on the island
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below main image, and dividing title in half, is a small inset map of the island with title "Boat book draft of the island of Lobos, Gulf of Mexico.", "On stone by H. Dacre.", and "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1847, by P.S. Duval ..."
Publisher:
Published by P.S. Duval, no. 7 Bank Alley
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico and Veracruz-Llave (State)
Subject (Topic):
Islands, Military camps, Mexican War, 1846-1848, and Campaigns
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
