In the foreground a car filled with passengers is pulled through the waves on the Thames by a pair of horses; other sailboats and rowboats sail in the same direction. In the distance is a cityscape of London and a bridge
Alternative Title:
Marine car and sea horses exhibited on the Thames and at Vauxhall in 1794
Description:
Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England) and Thames River (England)
Peele, J. W. (John Websdale), active 1822-1846, publisher
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
File 74 824 P374
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Broadside celebrating Fairlop Fair, held annually held on the first Friday in July. The broadside gives a short account of the origins of the fair, reproduces two songs sung by a Mr. Hemingway and a Mr. Lidard during the fair, and shows the festivities in an impressive woodcut which was printed from a woodblock fashioned from the celebrated Fairlop Oak. The Fairlop Oak was an impressive oak in the Hainault Forest near a lake at Fairlop Waters. In 1725 Daniel Day (d. 1767), a ship-builder, took some friends for a picnic there, repeating this for a number of summers until it gradually developed into a larger event, attended by ship, boat, and barge builders and their associated trades, though it was always held without a charter. By the early 19th century it was a well attended fair, known for its sometimes riotous behaviour. Day always made a point of arriving at the fair in a boat on wheels and this tradition continued. These impressive modes of transport, festooned with lights and sails, full of people in garish costumes making music and breaking into song were one of the features of the fair, and a well-known spectacle in the East End of London when they set off. By 1813 the Fairlop Oak had lost a great deal of its crown. The broadside here records its girth as being 36 feet. The tree was blown down in a gale in 1820, and its timber was used for a variety of celebratory furniture but also for the block from which the present woodcut was carved
Description:
Caption title., Date of publication from manuscript note on verso., Text includes ballads and songs in three columns, with a large woodcut of the Fairlop Oak and the surrounding fair above., With a ms. note on verso in ink and in an unidentified hand and dated: These bills circulated during the fairs. A mention is made of a charter in one of these songs, but such is not the case. Friday July 2, 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
Page 185. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Birds'-eye view down the River Thames, looking towards Westminster; Somerset House is seen on the right, with Westminster Abbey and Bridge in the mid-distance; many boats are on the water
Alternative Title:
Southeast prospect of Westminster
Description:
Title etched below image., "Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine, for J. Hinton in Newgate Street"--Above image., Date of publication from the Yale Center for British Art online catalog., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from upper margin. Missing text supplied from impression at the Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1998.14.676., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 185 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
J. Hinton
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Thames River (England),, and Westminster Bridge (London, England),
"A view of London through one of the arches of Westminster Bridge, with boats on the Thames and lumber yards on the right; St Paul's in the distance on the right, and the prominent steeples of other churches lettered with a number for identification"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
This view of the city of London, taken through one of the centers of the arches of the new bridge at Westminster ...
Description:
Title from dedication engraved below image., Key with the names of the churches numbered within image is etched on either side of dedication., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in New Bond Str
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Westminster Bridge (London, England),, and Thames River (England),
Three fashionable travellers on a boat, one woman and two men, are struggling in the wind; the waves and shore are shown in the background
Description:
Title from heading above image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Caption below image: Have we past Nore light yet, why every thing I had in me has come up but I don't think my light's have yet.
"View of a promenade lined with trees next to the River Thames, looking towards the York Buildings water-works and the tower of the old steam engine on the right, with the York Water Gate in front; on the left is the river with Westminster Bridge in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.1366., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in lower left corner, resulting in slight loss of title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted to 24 x 35 cm., and Leaf 61 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England),, Thames River (England),, Westminster Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
York-Buildings Company.
Subject (Topic):
Rivers, Hydraulic facilities, Bridges, Walkways, Stairways, Trees, and Boats
Title from item., In top margin, reversed title., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Twenty-four views, displaying the Beauties of Yarmouth and its environs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the bridge at Yarmouth with the town buildings on either side and boats in the river
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate from: Joseph Lambert's Twenty-four views, displaying the Beauties of Yarmouth and its environs. Yarmouth : Printed and sold by W. Meggy, [1822?].
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 December 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, land and ships on the sea behind; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from that of a later copy, published 1 November 1792 by W. Dickinson. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'., Mounted on page 27 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; circular image 31.1 cm, on sheet 31.5 x 31.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
