Title supplied by curator., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., Trimmed sheet., From: La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
le Blond excud avec Privilege
Subject (Topic):
Death, Mortality, Regret, Deathbeds, Priests, Bedrooms, Demons, Wealth, and Crying
Cave, François Morellon La, active approximately 1700-1766, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1739]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Alternative Title:
To all to whom these presents shall come
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., Added title from caption below image., Signed: By order of the said governors & guardians., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Power of Attorney. See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 253., and On page 101 in volume 2.
Wash drawing showing "The Little Gray Man" on his gibbet-wheel as a monkey seated on the chest of a corpse with the dying lovers, Leopold and Mary-Ann, below. Written on the verso, in ink, three verses from Matthew Gregory Lewis's "Tales of wonder, The little gray man" published in 1801
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by the artist with the date and his initials in lower left corner., In an unidentified hand on verso: "Drawn by Bertie Greatheed w[hen] twenty years old for E[arl] N[...]"., and Trimmed on left and lower edges with loss of text on verso. Remnants of old album mounts on verso.
Title devised by curator., Signed in white at bottom right., Date of production devised by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia.
Subject (Topic):
Hinduism, Death, Monkeys, Sick persons, Prayer, and Balinese (Indonesian people)
