"View showing the north front of Bethlem Hospital, looking across the gardens; figures in foreground and on paths outside hospital."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the hospital of Bethlem and Vü̈e de hopital de Bethlehem
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.4016., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., and Leaf 16 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Volume 2, page 41. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman wearing a plumed hat, carrying a feather fan, walking in a garden, past an urn set on a plinth, with two other women standing behind her to right, one fastening a corsage, wearing a striped scarf over her hair; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of text below title: Je l'aimais dès ce premier moment, & ce moment à decidè de toute me vie. "Le Comte de Commenge.", and Mounted on page 41 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1765]
Call Number:
Print00787
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., In margin upper right: Page 660., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, Gardens, and Pedestrians
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., This electronic 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: Spas; Hospitals, Germany.
Publisher:
Eigentum und Verlag von F. Sala & Co. in Berlin and Druck b. H. Delius
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Hydrotherapy, Mountains, and Gardens
Final scene of six images showing the progress of a courtship gone wrong. The characters are monkeys in human dress. The original suitor having lost his tail to his revival runs away while the new suitor and the object of their desire lift their arms in despair
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Courtship, and Gardens
A conversation piece: John Rich and his family relaxing in the gardens at Cowley; three men on the right stand admiring a painting; two women on the left sit by the table in conversation, behind John Rich who reclines on pillows on grass, an open book to his left and large pitcher in front of him; after Hogarth; illustration to Nichols' and Steevens' 'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth' (1810).
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: From an original painting in the possession of Abrm. Langford Esqr., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth., and Found in Filbrigg, p. 235 (iii).
Manuscripts, in a single hand, listing the produce sold to Lord Glenbervie -- all vegetables -- and the fruit listed separately as sold to Lady Glenbervie for the period 31 January 1814 till 20 December 1814. The seedsman is identified as James Astin of Kingston. A separate receipt for two-pence and blind stamped is dated February 1815
Description:
In English., Title supplied by cataloger., and For further information consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Astin, James. and Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823.
The fourth of six scenes showing the progress of a courtship, the couple being monkeys in human dress. A second male monkey dressed also a fine gentleman offers a rose to the well-dressed female monkey. The scene takes place in a formal garden
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Courtship, and Gardens
Sketch of the kitchen garden at Strawberry Hill. Grass walkways, flower beds, shrubs, and rows of trees are among the features labeled on the drawing
Description:
Title written below image in the artist's hand., Attribution to Horace Walpole from local catalog card., Also attributed to John Chute; local catalog card quotes a manuscript note from Michael McCarthy that formerly accompanied the drawing: "This is Chute's hand, and came with the Chute drawings from Dr. Ricci in 1926.", Date based on Horace Walpole's death date., and Formerly laid in (placed there by W.S. Lewis) Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784 (Lewis Walpole Library call number: 49 3582). See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Gardens, Landscaping plans, and Estates
