Title from item., Date derived from dates of N. Currier firm., Below title: But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. (Mat. VII.17.); Cut it down why cumbreth it the Ground. (Luke XIII.7.); 399., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce N.Y.
Subject (Topic):
Vices, Death (Personification)., Axes, Angels, Demons, Trees, Skeletons, Volcanoes, and Snakes
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Ferdinand VII, seated on a throne on a low platform inscribed "TIRANIA", is flanked by two advisers, the Devil on the left and a friar on the right. At the friar's feet, in the foreground, a demon burns newspapers with a firebrand. Tortures of the Inquisition are seen in the background
Description:
Title from text in image., A close copy, with same imprint but with other inscriptions translated into Spanish, of a print by George Cruikshank entitled "The curse of Spain". Cf. No. 13009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Six lines of text below image: En tanto que los bravos españoles, Derramaban su sangre por Fernando, El á Napoleon felicitaba, Por las victorias que en el suelo hispano, Sus sanguinárias huestes conseguian-- Ved las hazañas de este Monstruo infando. La Ferdinanda. Lib. 1. v. 129., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1303., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 868., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1818.
Publisher:
Washington
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wretched, broken-kneed horse, the legs tied up by five ropes round neck and fetlock or pastern, is violently maltreated by three men. One raises an axe to smite the bleeding neck, another applies a red-hot iron to a sore on the back, the third saws at a hind-leg. These operations are respectively: 'How to cure the Poll-Evil', 'How to heal a sore Back', 'How to cure a Quittors.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1804 reissue by S.W. Fores. For an earlier issue of this later state of the plate, see no. 10341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1801 with the imprint "Published by S. Howitt, No. 15 Queen Street, Soho". Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 801.11.01.03., and On leaf 69 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Ropes, Axes, Saws, and Veterinary medicine
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whigs destroying wooden objects and a press representing the Press."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Three lines of text below title: The perfidious, perjured, peculating, persecuting, paltry, purse-proud, penicious ... pilfering, plundering Whigs, smashing the unstamp'd., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "100" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 100.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vandalism, Hammers, Axes, and Printing presses
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears and a spiked mace stick out from the left side of the center stack; a variety of axes stick out from the right side
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Mounted before title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Arms & armament, Helmets, Spears, Shields, and Axes
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
Volume 4, after page 276. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found., The nine depicted items, presumably tools used on a warship, are labeled in watercolor with their names and length measurements: Spunge &c. 9 feet long ; 2 f. 6 tomyhawk for boarding ; lower deck spunge & rammer ; Crow[?] iron 4 f. ; 9 feet ; 14 inch hatchet for cutting away [the] rigging ; Hand spike 5 feet ; 9 feet copper ladle ; Boarding spike 10 feet., With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock]., and Mounted after page 276 (leaf numbered '56' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Subject (Topic):
Equipment, Arms & armament, Crowbars, Axes, and Spears
Volume 2, page 19. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man standing in profile to left, whole-length, with a hat, sack over shoulder, axe in hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Printmaker identified as Edward Haistwell in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1931,0413.205., Identification of printmaker is confirmed by a letter, pasted above print in album, from Richard Bull to Horace Walpole. In sending the print to Walpole, Bull mentions that it was "engrav'd by Mr. Haistwell, formerly a fellow commoner of C.C.C. College Cambridge [sic]"., Print signed with "CCCC", which probably stands for "Corpus Christi College, Cambridge", where Edward Haistwell was a fellow commoner., and Mounted on page 19 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
