"Portrait of Marie de Bretagne, Duchess of Montbazon, bust-length, slightly turned to the left, with curly hair, pearl earring, pearl necklace, and dress with square neckline."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A Madame la Duchesse de Montbazon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3886., Dedication to the Duchess of Montbazon by Jean Leblond engraved below image: Quoy qu'il ne soit pas possible, Madame, que l'art puisse bien representer l'extreme beauté ... Vostre tres-humble, et tres-obeissant seruiteur Iehan le Blond ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 63 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Jean Leblond
Subject (Name):
Montbazon, Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de, 1610-1657,
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
A circus broadside printed on both sides advertising John and Philip Astley's performances at the Amphitheatre in Paris in 1795. The show included for the first time their performing monkey General Jackoo; the verso of the broadsheet includes a detailed description of some of the tricks that the monkey performed as well ten woodcuts showing the monkey dressed as a human performing his tricks; a 3-year-old child musician; horses dancing a minuet; Chinese shadows; a castle attacked by wild dogs, etc
Alternative Title:
Exercices surprenans, par le Sieur Astley fils, Par permission du roi & de Mgr. Le Lieutenant General de Police, and Par permission du roi et de Mgr. Le Lieutenant General de Police
Description:
Caption title., Caption title on verso: Détail des exercices du fameux singe, nommé Général Jaco. Amphitheatre de Sieur Astely, rue du Fauxbourg du Temple. Aujourd'hui & toutes les festes., At head of title: Par permission du roi & de Mgr. Le Lieutenant General de Police. Amphithéatre. Rue de Fauxbourg du Temple ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Perm. de l'Imp. & dist. ce 22 Nov. 1785 De Crosner ; de l'imp de P. de Lormel, rue du Foin
"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man's chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: 'pâté de périgueux', a huge jar of 'vin de lafitte' round which four bottles are grouped: 'frontignac', 'Clos de Vouge[ot]', and '. . . seac'. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller's tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue., Date and series name from British Museum online catalogue., and "Déposé à la Don Gle de l'Imprimerie."
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, and Women
