Title from item., Date derived from date of original painting., After the 1863 painting "My First Sermon" by Millais., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. New York
Subject (Topic):
Children, Religious aspects, Christianity, Church attendance, Bibles, Pews, Girls, and Muffs
Title from item., Date derived from founding of Seitz lithographic firm., 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 Blind Stamp = L.A. Elliot & Co. Boston Importers.
Publisher:
Published by Seitz, Hamburg
Subject (Topic):
Fairy tales, Children, Girls, Wolves, and Picnic baskets
Caption title., Date based on the February 1813 lease to Mrs. Rebecca Edwards of No. 12 ‘The Paragon’ Blackheath, which appears to have been acquired to open her school for ladies., Engraved throughout; with greek-key and hatchwork border., Text continues with itemized price list for "The elements of astronomy and geography scientifically", "Music", "Drawing", and "Writing", followed by the statement "Latin, Greek and Italian by respectable masters"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 32. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling girl stands facing the viewer, bending forward slighly to lift the bottom of her dress and show off her shoes
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 32 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1791, by Mno. Bovi, No. 81, Great Titchfield Street
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Printed bill from William Grundy for instruction at his Parr Hall boarding academy for young ladies near St. Helens in what was then Lancashire, with itemized list subjects, lessons, goods and services offered., and Completed in manuscript and addressed to "Mrs. Gordon," the bill is dated "Dec. 18th, 1821" and covers "6 months' board and education of Miss Gordon ..." It was receipted and signed by "Wm. Grundy" on 8 January 1822, with a footnote that the school "will re-open on Jany. 22nd." For further information, consult library staff.
Title and place of publication from item., Date and artist from reference., Text lists ailments cured: Bile, humeurs, bronchites, faiblesse, névralgies, dartres., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Imp. Charles Verneau, 114, Rue Oberkampf, Paris
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Bronchitis, Older people, and Girls
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on date of The Maine Law (or "Maine Liquor Law"), which was passed on 2 June 1851., Text below title: Grand Papa. "But for seventy years, my child, I have found the moderate use of the good things of this life has done me good." Young hopeful teeotaller. "All a mistake Granpa', total abstinence is the thing. Look at me! I've not tasted wine or beer for years!", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 49 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Girls, Clocks & watches, Grandparents, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
A young woman (shown whole-length) wearing a simple dress and bonnet, stands in a room by a fireplace singing with a wistful look on her face as she plays the hurdy-gurdy. On the right, a fireplace decorated with tiles and inside with andirons and tools; above hangs a cocked hat and a broken mirror. A sword leans against the edge of the fireplace and behind the girl
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Contemporary ms. note along lower edge: "The first [illegible] to the plate. This [illegible] proper [illegible] in this state."
A young woman (shown whole-length) wearing a simple dress and bonnet, stands in a room by a fireplace singing with a wistful look on her face as she plays the hurdy-gurdy. On the right, a fireplace decorated with tiles and inside with andirons and tools; above hangs a cocked hat and a broken mirror. A sword leans against the edge of the fireplace and behind the girl
Description:
Title engraved below image., A later state of: Savoyard. Published by G. Sherlock May 12th 1798., The print refers to the affair between the Duke of Cumberland and a hurdy-gurdy player. For a full account see E. Einberg, 'Music for Mars, or the Case of the Duke's Lost Sword', The Huntington Library Quarterly, LVI, 1993, pp. 181-9., On page 227 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Not in Nichols's book.
