A trade card issued by Edward Orme announcing a change of address for his printselling, framing and stationery business from Conduit Stree to New Bond Street. The image show a cherub emerging from a break in a thick bank of clouds, as he holds a caducesus. On the right a bearded man in a cap and in a fur trimmed cloak reaches toward the cherub; the man has a snake at his feet. High in the center a bat flies toward the scene
Alternative Title:
Edward Orme, removed from Conduit Street to 59 New Bond Street ...
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below image: Where are sold all his new invented transparent prints and every other publication. Merchants & dealers supplied on the most liberal terms. Pictures, prints & drawings framed. Drawing books, fancy prints & drawing materials., "Printseller to the King.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but lower edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow. After Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., State with the cherub roughly sketched in and no text in the banner that he holds., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow. After Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., State with the cherub fully formed with aquatint and text in the banner that he holds "Dieu et mon"., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
