BEIN 1977 1657: Binder's stamp: C. Nederveen. Unidentified inscriptions on )(3 and following leaf. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Signatures: )(⁴ A-2O⁴., Last leaf blank., Publisher's name from colophon., T.p. in red and black with woodcut., and Foreword signed Carl Sigmund Feyrabend.
Publisher:
in Verlegung Johann Feyrabends
Subject (Topic):
Art, Study and teaching, Figure drawing, Horses in art, and Tournaments, Medieval, in art
"Large palace yard lined with porticos, with draped people engaged in activities representing sciences and arts, and royal coat of arms with crown, fleur-de-lys and insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit in the lower part."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,8.85., Dedication etched beneath title: Dediée au Roy par son tres humble tres obeïssant et tres fidéle serviteur et sujet Seb. le Clerc., and With two unidentified (collector?) stamps.
Depiction of the marble copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Sleeping Hermaphroditus. The nude figure lies on a mattress, body turned away from the viewer, head to the right and resting upon the right arm which rests upon a pillow; a sheet is draped over the figure's calves and left shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "41" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 167 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Wilkie asking Lady Holland to accept his gift of "two small and imperfect sketches, made from recollection, on my way back from Falmouth, of the two Portraits by Vandyke, of the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Holland." He explains that the portraits will interest Lady Holland for "having been painted in Holland House." The letter is accompanied by the two watercolor sketches mentioned in the letter, which are signed and dated 1834
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845., Holland family., and Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Letters, Portrait painting, Watercolor painting, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 2018 238: Paperbound. Stamp: Bibl. Gvst C. Galletti Flor. and Imperfect: Folded map only. Carta dei viaggi fatti da Cristoforo Colombo per l'Oceano Atlantico ... P. Binaghi inc. per L'opera del par Amati. Ricerche Storico-Crit. 1830.
Publisher:
Coi tipi di Giovanni Pirotta
Subject (Topic):
Art, History, Printing, Science, Literature, History and criticism, and Inventions
Title etched below image., Publication information from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Copy of the first state of William Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and one, along with a satyr, lifting the shift of a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus. Enscribed on either side of Diana: "Antiquam exquirite matrem. Vir."
Description:
Title etched below image., Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.) no. 120., and On page 57 in volume 1. With note in Steeven's hand above print: Copy.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 23d, 1782 Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Satyrs (Greek mythology), Art, Painting, and Putti
