Audubon's watercolors, the complete avian collection
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BEIN 2011 Folio 66: No. 24 of 200. Autograph: Louise Mirrer, president, New York Historical Society. Blindstamps of New York Historical Society and Oppenheimer Editions.
A drawing of five birds in a decorative scrolling pattern on the privately printed title page of an extra-illustrated volume; it fills the space along the right margin and extends over the top of the text block; the top two image show two birds in fli...
BEIN SSy13 A8 848G Copy 2: 57 cm. Original 36 pts. as issued. 1841-48, contains 1 extra plate each of Euphema splendida and Falco hypoleucus intended to replace 2 earlier plates.
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Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor : pub. by the author
A collection of 24 proof sheets, mostly eight images per sheet, surrounded by typographic border. The images include a wide range of insects, aquatic animals, and mammals, both those common in England as well as those found in Africa and parts of the ...
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William Davison (1781-1858), printer in Alnwick, as well as a pharmacist, newspaper produce and local philanthropist; a partner with John Catnach until 1808. Davison's output included notepaper and handbills, newspapers, chapbooks, an illustrated bibl...
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Published by W. Davison, Bondgate Street, Alnwick
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Birds, Fairy tales, Fish, Insects, Landscapes, Mammals, and Reptiles
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 ...
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
A caricature of George IV fishing on Virginia Water, using his scepter as a rod, watched by a kingfisher and a wagtail. On the end of his line is a frog, which is being netted by Lady Conyngham, his mistress
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Jul. 13, 1826, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
"George IV sits fishing under a little pavilion; his rod is a sceptre, larger than that in Britis Museum Satires No. 15126. He has hooked a frog, which Lady Conyngham, kneeling beside him, is about to scoop with a landing-net. She says: Oh what a beau...
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Title etched below.
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Pubd. June, 1826 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Virginia Water (England : Lake), and Windsor Great Park (England),
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
A volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram (1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Veni...
"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:...
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E, for the embassy, kept on full pay, collecting of slander and filth on the way ...
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Title etched below image.
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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 volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram 1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Venic...
"A drinking scene; a drunken man carousing with two women, raising a glass into which Death, a crowned skeleton standing behind him, pours a liquid from a small bottle, a great quantity of steam or smoke rising off; one of the women lies asleep on the...
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Title etched below image.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Poisons, Skeletons, Birdcages, Birds, Dogs, Loss of consciousness, Eating & drinking, and Barrels
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
Caption title above the first two columns of verse. Also above first two columns is the imprint enclosed in square brackets and the woodcut of a bird perched on branch.
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Printed and sold by J. Evans, no. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London
A collection of Syriac prayers, incantations, amulets, and magical formulas, intended to provide protection in times of trouble. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
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In Syriac.
Subject (Topic):
Amulets, Animals, Birds, Incantations, Insects, Plants, Syriac language, and Weapons
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).
Heading to verses printed in two columns. After the title: 'An Original Tale, recited by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre'. A farmer in top-boots stands at the head of his dinner-table, about to hurl a large cheese; other cheeses fly about the ro...
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Title from item.
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Published 1st February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax colle...
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
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
A woman sits at a table in front of a window, a patterned rug beneath them. She looks at a kitten walking towards her on the table and points with her left hand to a bird raised away from the table in her right hand. The two chairs and windows are cov...
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Title from item.
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Published Feby. 4th 1788 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
"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, ex...
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From the original at Windsor and Lord Courtown's dream
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Title etched below image; letter 's' in 'originals' scored through with several etched lines.
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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
"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, ex...
Alternative Title:
From the original at Windsor and Lord Courtown's dream
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Title etched below image; letter 's' in 'originals' scored through with several etched lines.
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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
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the fo...
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Title from item.
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Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the fo...
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Title from item.
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Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A group of five boys play under a large tree. One boy has climbed up the tree and is handing down a bird's nest with three fledgling birds to another boy on the left, who holds out his hat. On the right one boy gives another boy a ride on his back. On...
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Boys taking a bird's nest
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Title from caption below image.
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Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"The interior of a coffee-house, the customers, with one exception, deeply interested and dismayed at the news in a 'Gazette Extraordinary', which the title shows is that on the capture of the island of St. Eustatius by Rodney, see British Museum Sati...
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News from St. Eustatia and St. Eustatia
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Title from text above and below image.
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Publish'd Octr. 15, 1781, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist we...
"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
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Title from text below image.
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Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside