Christine of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine, Great Duchess of Tuscany
Description:
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Print shows Colonel Taylor in center and U.S. troops (Missouri Volunteers) on left in close combat with Seminole Indians on right
Alternative Title:
Colonel Taylor at the battle of Okeechobee
Description:
BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 861cj copy 1: On sheet 22.2 x 28.8 cm. State without imprint., BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 861cj copy 2: On sheet 21.3 x 25.9 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Virtue & Yorston
Subject (Name):
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
Subject (Topic):
Seminole Indians and Okeechobee, Battle of, Fla., 1837
Print shows Colonel Taylor in center and U.S. troops (Missouri Volunteers) on left in close combat with Seminole Indians on right
Alternative Title:
Colonel Taylor at the battle of Okeechobee
Description:
BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 861cj copy 1: On sheet 22.2 x 28.8 cm. State without imprint., BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 861cj copy 2: On sheet 21.3 x 25.9 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Virtue & Yorston
Subject (Name):
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
Subject (Topic):
Seminole Indians and Okeechobee, Battle of, Fla., 1837
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written by Read and one by E. D. Grafton; copies of accounts by Leon Vanloo and Davis L. James, describing how and where Read wrote the poem; a collage by Grafton showing Murdoch reciting the poem; photographs of Read and his wife Hattie by Grafton and others; and clippings regarding the placement of a plaque on the house in which the poem was written.
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Literary Club of Cincinnati, Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893, Read, Harriet Denison Butler, Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888--Poetry, and Vanloo, Leon
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American --19th century --Archives and Poets, American
A collection of theatrical costume drawings from a variety of sources in a variety of mediums on paper and pasteboard, mostly unidentified but some signed: two by Lucien Besche, one by Herbert Norris, one by C.A. Stothard, two by Charles Wilhelm and two idenitified only by the initials T.O., with dates ranging from the last quarter of the 18th century through 1925. Also includes one print of Charles Kean. The 18th century drawings show women's costumes for a variety of unidentified productions in a variety of period dress, including a group of five drawings of classical Roman figures and deities, a drawing for a costume for Lady Macbeth, and Stothard's drawing for Henry V. Later costume drawings include three pen drawings of mid-19th characters, one of whom is in a train carriage, a "Wood Gatherer" costume from London Lyceum Theatre's 1893-1894 production of 'Cinderella' , Bosche's 1892 drawing of a female warrior for "The 40 thieves". Some drawings include notes about the fabric and colors to be used, address of vendors, etc
Description:
For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779. and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Subject (Topic):
Costume design, Actors, English, and Costume design drawings
A collection of newspaper clippings (mostly dated 1799-1809), advertisements, and three engraved portraits (one hand-colored) documenting Dineley's efforts to find a wife. Most of the clippings have been mounted with other clippings about the Stuarts and English theatre, circa 1828-1829, presumably part of a scrapbook (unknown location), pages numbered non-consecutively. Includes some loose advertisements similarly documenting Dineley's search for a wife: "A Valentine's gift for 1800 ...", "To all qualified Ladies marriageable ...", and several entitled "For a wife". Several of the advertisements and two of the portraits were published by C. Knight; one advertisement printed by Pote and Williams of Eton
Description:
Sir John Dineley (formerly Dineley-Goodere), fifth baronet, born at Burhope, Herefordshire, a well-known eccentric residing as a Free Knight at Windsor., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Ce livre, le premier de la série 'Courts-Métrages' a été réalisé d'après les maquettes de Chris Marker par Juliette Caputo, et imprimé sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Sapho, à Paris"--Colophon.
