Title from item., Attribution to Ansell from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Farmyards -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Buildings: barn -- Spying glass -- Fowl -- Pigs -- Drunkenness -- Ladder -- Basket of game.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 8th, 1800, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title and publisher from item., In right margin: A.1.02.81 UFI 33600 PESSAC., Date from Wikipedia list of Comité Français d'Éducation pour la Santé campaigns, viewed 7/21/2023: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27%C3%A9ducation_pour_la_sant%C3%A9, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Comité Français d'Éducation pour la Santé, 9, rue Newton 75116 Paris and [1964].
Subject (Topic):
Dental hygiene, Dental prophylaxis, Public health, Crocodiles, Birds, and Toothbrushes
"A dog facing a cat that stands over a dead bird with a dead deer on the bench beside them, after Jervas. Plate 38 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/2 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Two dogs facing a cat that has stolen a dead bird off the table, after Jervas. Plate 37 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/4 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Album of watercolor drawings depicting exotic animals, copied by the artist Ann Rich from the first few parts of the Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine (London, 1798-1802).
Description:
Title from manuscript text on first leaf., Each drawing executed on its own sheet, with a caption written in ink above; bound in contemporary plain paper wrappers., and For further information, consult library staff.
A thin man in a cap pulled down on his head feeds a morsel of food to an obese woman who combs a wig in her hand as they sit on a sofa before a table laid with lunch. They are in a well-appointed sitting room decorated with a mirror above a fireplace with a mantel on which sits a clock, a sheet of music entitled 'Romance', and under a glass vitrine, a statuette of man holding a bird on his finger. The fire screen is decorated with an image of two love birds. On the left edge is only a portion of painting, but it shows a bird perched on the finger of the sitter's hand. The man's discarded hat and walking stick rest of a sofa to the left
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed by the printmaker on a slip of paper tucked into the left edge of the mirror., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on blue laid paper to: 36 x 30 cm.
"Rectangular bundles of documents, supported on human legs, march towards a writing-table (left) where two men await them eagerly, one being evidently Lord Stewart. These bundles recede in perspective from right to left. The two largest are inscribed: 'From Switzerland Via Colombier the Capital of Europe' and 'From Milan by the Brown road'. The others are: 'From Trieste'; 'From Carlsruhe'; 'Como'; 'Italy'; 'Devil'; 'Moloch'; 'Lucifer'. A bird flies towards the table with a paper inscribed 'Private'. Forked lightning darts towards the table, beside which trunks, boxes, and papers are piled, with a paper headed '... [Maj]ochys deposition'. Towards the table from the left advances (from an ornate Gothic building) a procession of lawyers, carrying books. P. 6: E, for the Embassy, kept on full pay, Collecting of slander and filth on the way ; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
E, for the embassy, kept on full pay, collecting of slander and filth on the way ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Documents, Tables, Birds, Lightning, Luggage, Boxes, and Lawyers
A fashionably dressed young woman, adorned with feathers, is attacked by flocks of birds on the lawn of an estate. Another young woman flees towards the door of the house in the distance
Alternative Title:
Real birds plucking the sham
Description:
Title from text etched above and below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to/within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In an oval frame, a young woman with long hair and pearls around her neck, feeds a bird from a straw as she leans over a shelf. Beside her is a basket with other little birds and on the right a potted blooming plant
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
"A travesty of Quintin Matsys' picture of 'The Misers' at Windsor, the misers being George III, writing in his ledger and counting coins, and Queen Charlotte, leaning on his shoulder. The pose, dress, background, and accessories are closely copied, except that the hood over the Queen's head is pushed back to show a large ear-ring and her hair which is decorated with pearls. The 's' of 'Originals' in the title has been scored through, stressing the identification of 'the Misers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original at Windsor and Lord Courtown's dream
Description:
Title etched below image; letter 's' in 'originals' scored through with several etched lines., Questionable attribution to Kingsbury from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pen cases -- Inkpots -- Jewels: Queen Charlotte's jewels -- Travesty: Quinten Metsys's The Money Changer and His Wife -- Allusion to James Stopford, Earl of Courtown, 1731-1810., and Watermark: initials LV G.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Jacob Dowse, near Turnstile, Holborn
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Books, Candlesticks, Interiors, Pets, Birds, Miserliness, and Coins
