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1. A new deceptio visûs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1728]
- Call Number:
- 728.00.00.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
- Description:
- Title from print in upper right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of docket title and associated text. Perimeter of the design has been heavily inked in black, obscuring all but the images of the prints. The gold coin has been decorated with gold lead and the background of this print is also heavily inked in black., A composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Geo. Bickham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece.
- Subject (Name):
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new deceptio visûs [graphic]
2. A new deceptio visûs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1760]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.73 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
- Alternative Title:
- New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
- Description:
- Title from print in upper right., Date based on publisher's years of activity at 53 Fleet Street., Later state of a print, a composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio visus., See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861., Description based on imperfect impression; impression lacks plate with docket title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece.
- Subject (Name):
- Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new deceptio visûs [graphic]
3. Halieutica, etc
- Creator:
- Oppian, active 2nd century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 255
- Image Count:
- 308
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Table for Oppian, Halieutica. 2) Anonymous Life of Oppian. 3) Oppian of Anazarbos, Halieutica. The order of the text is distorted: I.1-66; 380-543; 67-379; I.544-III.189; IV.562-619; III.198-IV.561; IV.620-end. 4) Oppianus of Apamea, Cynegetica. 5) Colluthus, Raptus Helenae. 6) Tryphiodorus, Troiae Halosis. 7) Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the habitable world (De situ orbis).
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3397 for leaves with text, and to Harlfinger Cloche 31 for blank pages., Script: Text was written by a single scribe. A later hand, bold and ill-formed, supplied the table of contents (ff. iii verso-iv verso), minor marginal notations and the foliation in the upper right corner (for ff. 1-60)., Tinted drawing of Oppian writing his poem while contemplating fish in a nearby stream occurs on f. 1v (perhaps an amateur copy of an author portrait); one simple 6-line initial in red and black penwork, f. 2r; headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Title in ink on fore edge. Tan calf case with deep geometric indentations, blind-tooled, with a dark blue, gold-tooled calf label. Similar to the bindings of MSS 256 and 258. Possibly bound by Whitaker (we thank A. R. A. Hobson for this information).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece., Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
- Subject (Name):
- Oppian, active 2nd century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography, Greek poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Halieutica, etc
4. Harmonicum enchiridion; with Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
- Creator:
- Nicomachus, of Gerasa
- Published / Created:
- 1585.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 272
- Image Count:
- 180
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Nicomachus Gerasenus, Harmonicum enchiridion, I-II. 2) Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Harlfinger Croix 42; a similar watermark occurs in Beinecke MSS 273 and 274., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who completed the work in Venice on 26 March 1585., Much rubrication of the text. Small initials, 3- to 1-line, some with floral motifs. Simple headpieces in black and red at beginning of each section., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Lavender edges. Tan leather, flesh side out, over wooden boards with a blind-tooled X and a single line border on each. Probably by the same binder who bound MS 301; almost certainly done in the same bindery.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicomachus, of Gerasa.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Music, and Music theory
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harmonicum enchiridion; with Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
5. Kōnstantinos Simōnidēs forgery of an unidentified text by Homer : manuscript
- Creator:
- Simōnidēs, Kōnstantinos, approximately 1820-approximately 1867
- Published / Created:
- circa [1850?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn d543
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript forgery by Kōnstantinos Simōnidēs, of an unidentified text by Homer, on parchment, circa 1850
- Description:
- Kōnstantinos Simōnidēs (approximately 1820-approximately 1867), Greek forger of ancient manuscripts., In ancient Greek., and Stored rolled in a wooden matchbox for Congreve matches manufactured by I. N. E., Germany, with printed label and striker, circa 1850; box lid missing.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece.
- Subject (Name):
- Simōnidēs, Kōnstantinos, approximately 1820-approximately 1867. and Homer
- Subject (Topic):
- Forgeries, Forgers, Forgery of manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Greek
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kōnstantinos Simōnidēs forgery of an unidentified text by Homer : manuscript
6. The dance [graphic]
- Creator:
- Skelton, William, 1763-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figures are numbered 1-7.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., A plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 31., Copy of A. de La Mottraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., On page 14 in volume 1., and Ms. note at top margin in Steevens's hand: Copy.
- Publisher:
- S. Ireland
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece. and Turkey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dance, Girls, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The dance [graphic]
7. [A native dance] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1727]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 84K(a) Box 225
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In Smyrna with a city in the distance, a group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figure labelled '1' is identified in the text as 'one of the Chief Woman in Smyrna'' and '7' is her daughter; both wear Turkish headdresses. The country girl (3) wears the costume of Scio, and the woman (4) wears a typical dress from Constantinople. See v. 1, p. 159-60.
- Description:
- Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "Tom. 1, No. XIII."--Upper right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- A. de La Mottraye
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece. and Turkey.
- Subject (Name):
- La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dance, Girls, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A native dance] [graphic]
8. [A native dance] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1727]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In Smyrna with a city in the distance, a group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figure labelled '1' is identified in the text as 'one of the Chief Woman in Smyrna'' and '7' is her daughter; both wear Turkish headdresses. The country girl (3) wears the costume of Scio, and the woman (4) wears a typical dress from Constantinople. See v. 1, p. 159-60.
- Description:
- Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "T. 1."--Upper left corner., "XI."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 4 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- A. de La Mottraye
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece. and Turkey.
- Subject (Name):
- La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dance, Girls, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A native dance] [graphic]
