Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Kind gentlemen, will you be patient a while?". - Prefatory note and illustration taken from 'A collection of old ballads', 1723-25., Printed in five columns with the title, woodcut, and prose introduction above the first three; the columns are not separated lines of ornamental type., Full imprint reads: Northampton Printed for Robert Dicey; of whom may be had all sorts of old and new ballads, broad-sheets, histories, pictures cut in wood, and engrav'd on copper plate, &c. with finer cuts, much better printed, and cheaper than in any other place in England., Also available on microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. - 1 reel ; 35mm. - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1491, no. 44) [For microfilm ask in Rare Books Room]., Mounted on leaf 38. Copy trimmed. In two pieces rejoined and repaired., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
The plate on the right shows, a young Arawak woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left; in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his arrow and The plate on the left shows, a Arawak native slitting the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. A man in Western dress, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
Description:
Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., "Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation" first engraved by Benedetti and published "Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson"., and Copies of plates origingally printed for: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, Parrots, and Snakes
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two groups of tailors battle each other. The group on the left, fighting under the "Journeymen Tailors Union for a fair renumeration of labour" banner, charge forward riding geese and using scissors as weapons; additional members fire bows and arrows from towers. The group on the right, fighting under the "Union of Master Tailors for a coninuance of tyranny low wages & profits 100 percent" banner, are well dressed and hang back in a defensive position; they use firearms, swords, and a shield bearing a pound sign ("£") as weapons
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text following title: When snip meets snip then comes the tug of war!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Cupid on a makeshift raft, using his bow as an oar and an arrow for a mast
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Artist and date from ink annotation in lower margin of Lewis Walpole Library impression: Done by Miss Fanny Corbaux 14 years of age.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing of the Indian weapons, in the Armoury at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 78 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Arms & armament, Arrows, Axes, and Spears
A soldier, possibly from the English Civil War, looks with shock towards an arrow embedded in his chest. He sits, surrounded by foliage, holding a dagger in his right hand
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; attributed to Henry William Bunbury., and Date from dealer's description.
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, War casualties, Arrows, and Daggers & swords
