Album of watercolors depicting Belém Castle on the river Tagus, Coimbra and Sabugal, Portugal, the Battle of Bussaco, the march to Badajoz, the crossing at Villa Velha, the Siege of Badajoz, crossing the Bridge of Alcántara, Spain, and the Pyrenees ...
Alternative Title:
Sketches in the peninsula during the war from 1812 to 1814
Description:
Gift of William Ireland Starr.
Subject (Geographic):
Badajoz (Spain)--History--Siege, 1812, Coimbra (Portugal)--Pictorial works, and Tagus River (Spain and Portugal)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Bussaco, Battle of, Portugal, 1810--Pictorial works, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Pictorial works, Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Spain, and Torre de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)--Pictorial works
Signed drawing depicting the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come pointing down at a slab with Ebenezer Scrooge's name on it. Scrooge is kneeling with his face buried in his hands.
Description:
Bound in a purple levant morocco large quarto folder, gilt tooled and lined with purple silk.
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of two men standing and conversing, the man on the left leaning in close and resting his left hand on the shoulder of the man on the right, his right hand raised with index finger pointing. The man on the right stands with his hands clasped in...
Description:
Title written below image.
Subject (Name):
Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Theatrical productions, Operas & operettas, and Actors
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a standing man, facing left with his arms out in a gesture. He wears a red coat with gold embroidery and red breeches; his white wig is tied at the bottom with a large black bow. Probably a depiction of an actor performing in the comedy La ...
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man and woman, standing across from one another and apparently engaged in conversation. The man, standing on the left and facing right, gestures toward the woman with his left hand; he wears a blue jacket and breeches, has a holstered swo...
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man, standing and turned towards the left. He wears a long white coat, open and unbuttoned, his blue waistcoat and breeches visible beneath. In his outstretched right hand is a tricorne; in his left hand, pulled in close to the hip, is a ...
A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the ...
