A tall Corinthian column marked at its base, 'MDCCXXXI', is being hacked by a group of fiends while on the other side it is being kicked by an ass ridden by another fiend holding a whip in his left hand and a mask in his right. A tableau attached to the length of the column shows Fame, seated on a canopied throne, with Muses in attendance, receiving a piece of paper from Sylvanus Urban, the editor of the Gentleman's magazine. Behind him is a crowd of ladies and gentlemen with petitions in their hands
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from date of the volume in which this print was published., Frontispiece from: The gentleman's magazine. London : E. Cave, v. 17(1747): January., Text in upper right of plate: Front. Vol. XVII., Described in: The Vision : a poem addressed to S. Urban on completing his sevententh volume. The poem is printed facing the title page of the January 1747 issue., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Fame -- Pseudonyms: Sylvanus Urban.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with Manfred, Theodore, and several other characters in the foreground drawing back in fear from the vision appearing behind them, shielding themselves with their arms. This vision, apperaring within the ruins of a castle wall that has been toppled, includes the ghostly form of Alphonso, in full armor, surrounded by smoke and accompanied by a monk
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., Page reference written in ink below lower right corner of image: P. 239., and Bound in opposite page 239 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Title from curator. and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst, 1712-1774, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1774]
Call Number:
Print00987
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from artist's date of death., Place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Tourniquet; Barber surgeons & surgery; Clyster., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Surgeons, Pain, Surgical instruments, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Retorts (Equipment)., and Wounds & injuries
"Visiting-card of Countess Harriet Frances Bessborough; invitation to a ball given by her; in a room; a woman seated on a chair, holding a bird in her right hand, a flame in her left; two putti holding a banner over her; after Cipriani; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1870,1008.2313., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 12 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portrait of Dr. Arne. The bass player labeled Ger. may represent Karl Friedrich Abel. To the right the church congregation is indicated, with men in the foreground and women with the fashionable pyramidal hair styles seated in the upper gallery
Description:
Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title pencilled below image: The morning concert., and In laid to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
Lettering in a frame ornamented with a garland of roses
Description:
Title from image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Front and back covers and front and back flyleaves of volume in same folder.
Title from image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Front cover and front flyleaf of volume in same folder.
Title from Kay., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spectacles -- Noses -- Mr. Watson, an Edinburgh messenger.
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842), v.i., page 205., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
