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.
Title from the British Museum catalogue., Place, publisher, and publication date from book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven lines of verse below image: Heere [sic] to the church, one of her youngest sonnes ..., Frontispiece to: Catholike history / Edward Chisenhale., and Temporary local subject terms: Devils -- Rebellion against popery -- Allusion to Reformation -- Ecclesiastical emblems: popery -- Gog and Magog -- Arms of the Chisenhale family -- Literature: Catholike history, by Edward Chisenhale, d. 1654 -- Protestant Church -- Catholic Church -- Churches.
Publisher:
N. Brooks
Subject (Name):
Innocent X, Pope, 1574-1655 and Chisenhale, Edward, d. 1654
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Description:
"Page 312. Don Quixote. Pl. 3."--Above image., Title from original Hogarth print. Added titles from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 94., and On page 86 in volume 1.
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Alternative Title:
Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella vindicating herself and Don Quixote: The funeral of Chrysostom
Description:
Title from Paulson., Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Vol. I, p. 71."--Lower left, below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 86 in volume 1.
Title assigned by cataloger based on letterpress text below., Publication information extrapolated from that of Walpole's Works., Head-piece illustration to a verse by Horace Walpole with caption title: The funeral of the lioness : a fable imitated from La Fontaine., Plate from: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London, 1798, v. 4, page 377., and Watermark: 1797.
"The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
"A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Accidents, Skeletons, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Hourglasses
The palatial room, lit by a candle chandelier, is filled with members standing in conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15217 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 252.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
"Satire on the times in four compartments each showing the figure of Time and a grindstone in relation to current events: the incompetent management of war with France; John Barnard's lottery scheme, in which Henry Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had invested heavily; Henry Fox's "Treachery,Vanity, Folly & Impudence" which Pitt promises to crush; the burden of taxes on all but the friends of the Devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design divided into four compartments, each with its own title and numbered Part 1 to 4., Temporary local subject terms: Grinding stones -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Personifications: Time -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 23 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
