Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 241 x 195 mm., and Ink annotation in lower right margin: H.C. from A.C.K. Feb. 1915.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
"Portrait of Members of the Dilettanti Society after Reynolds (Mannings 511); seven men sitting around a table, from left to right: Lord Mulgrave looking to front, Lord Dundas standing examining ring in his raised right hand, Lord Seaforth looking at ring held in his right hand, Charles Greville almost in profile to right, toasting with John Charles Crowle turned to left looking down and the Duke of Leeds, almost in profile, Sir Joseph Banks at front of table to right, holding a ring in his right hand; pillars and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloguer based on British Museum online catalogue's description of similar print, registration no.: and 1902,1011.4121., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1830,0613.7., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's place of activity., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Two pieces of tape at top on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Phipps, Constantine, Sir, 1656-1723,, Dundas of Aske, Thomas Dundas, Baron, 1741-1820,, MacKenzie, Kenneth, of Seaforth,, Greville, Charles Francis, 1749-1809,, Crowle, John, 1738-1811,, Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of, 1751-1799,, Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,, and Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
"A stout youngish man, fashionably dressed and wearing boots of Hessian pattern, walks in profile to the right, on a flagged pavement. His nose is exaggeratedly Jewish and in the roadway are pigs (left and right) scampering off, only their hind-quarters visible said to indicate the converted Jew."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Nugent, Thomas, active 18th century, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan with her son Charles on her back, as a rustic figure carrying a jug towards a stream at right, donkeys in surrounding landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Sheridan and son
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. ; engraved by T. Nugent., State before any lettering. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published April 2, 1800, by T. Nugent, No. 21 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Bound in as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With title "Hester Jane, Second Wife of R.B. Sheridan" and artist statement "John Hoppner pinxt." added in pencil in lower margin, in a later hand. Printmaker's name "Nugent" written beneath image in lower right, in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
T. Nugent
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Hester Jane, 1776-1817, and Sheridan, Charles Brinsley, 1796-1843,
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Donkeys, Pitchers, Mothers, and Children
Plate [120] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Earl of Warwick, Lord Sheffield, Earl of Rutland, Earl of Northumberland, Sir Robert Southwell and two others on rocks, mermaids swimming in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Plate [120] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 2d April, 1800, by R. Bowyer
Subject (Name):
Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of, approximately 1530-1590,, Mulgrave, Edmund Sheffield, Earl of, 1564-1646,, Rutland, Edward Manners, Earl of, 1549-1587,, Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of, 1502-1553,, and Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1563-1598,
Plate [158] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Isaac Oliver, Cornelius Janssen, Peter Oliver, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller and Greenhill on a wall surmounted by another showing Van Dyck, above which two angels recline on clouds, on drawing and the other reaching up to rainbow above; palette and brushes lying in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [158] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617,, Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661,, Oliver, Peter, 1594-1648,, Lely, Peter, 1618-1680,, Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723,, Greenhill, John, 1642-1676,, and Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641,
Plate [123] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two cherubs holding a garland from which portrait medallions of Carleill, Drake, Anson and Dampler hang, a lighthouse on rocks, partly obscured by clouds, in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Title from catalogue., and Plate [123] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Carleill, Christopher, 1551?-1593,, Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596,, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762,, and Dampier, William, 1652-1715,
