View at night of a fire blazing through the Houses of Parliament; firemen attack the flames with hoses; a large crowd gathers behind soldiers surrounding scene; several guards are seen in the left foreground
Description:
Title from text below image., Laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Attached to a pen and ink drawing with a metal pin that pierces the lower left corners of both sheets.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand
Subject (Name):
Westminster Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Fire fighters, Crowds, Soldiers, and British
Title from captions below images., Printmaker from initials on first print in the series., Date of publication based on watermarks from other prints in the series., and Four designs on one plate, each individually captioned.
Title from text within image., 'Pl. 1" in the forth volume of Cruikshank's: My sketch book., Ten designs individually captioned., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Humans in animal forms.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1834?]
Call Number:
Print01172
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with C.J. Grant's initials., Possibly an illustration from Every body's album & caricature magazine, a series published in 1834 by J. Kendrick., Sheet trimmed with possible loss of title and imprint., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gin shops.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick?
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking facilities, Gin, Intoxication, Alcoholism, Poor persons, and Children
Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:
[1834-1836]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:
111
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoos / drawn on the blocks by Wm. Westall, A.R.A. 1835 (ca. [32] p.); British Canada 1835 ([8] p.); British costume ([3] p.); Old English sports ([8] p.); a group of 10 pages (some blank) with Roman ruins and other historic sites in Spain and Portugal; Illustrations of the Modern Egyptians / drawn on the blocks by the Author, Edwd. Wm. Lane Esq. 1836 (24 p.). Many of the ilustrations are captioned in blank ink by the same hand; others prints with pencil notations
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Bound in original black half morocco over marbled boards, spine decorate in gilt and upper cover with morocco label lettered "Scrap-book.", With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Coates. Below bookplate, slip of paper with the name and address of Mrs. Algernon Warren., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
Title from ms. annotation at top of sheet., Nine designs on one plate, each individually titled., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and partial loss of printmaker's signature., and Designs on sheet separated by lines drawn in ink in later hand.
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
Description:
Title from Paulson., Original designed as the Frontispiece to vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1727., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 101., On page 47 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy.
