Title supplied by curator. 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 Febry. 1st 1787 by John and Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, London
Title and date from item., Certificate issued to Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith, New Medical Schools, The University of Cambridge., 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 (Name):
Graham-Smith, G. S. 1875-1950. (George Stuart), and Atlas (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Allegories, Gods, Dancers, Fear, and Water
Title from text in lower margin., Alternate title and date supplied by curator., Text is from Ovid's Metamorphoses., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted with ink inscription.Trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Aesculapius (Roman deity).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Staff of Aesculapius, Plague, Gods, Sick persons, Beds, and Snakes
Reduced copy of Hogarth's satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'A', 'a sacrifice to Priapus', an altar to Priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of Time is stabbed by a bishop and a butcher, his blood pouring into a bowl held up by a monkey in a surplice; opposite at right, burning hearts on an altar to Venus and Cupid decorated with doves and wigs; at the back of the room, a painting of a Bacchic subject, to either side shelves with jellies and cakes, labelled provactives, and two signs with the obscene pun 'Supper below'; to either side, 'B', two 'Lecherometers' in the form of barometers, at left labelled 'Expectation Hope Hot desire Extreem Hot Moist Sudden Cold', at right 'Cool Warm Dry Changable Hot moist Fixt'; above the design at centre, a clock with Heidegger's face at top, the hour hand 'Wit', the minute hand 'Impertinence', the second hand 'Nonsense', to either side a lolling unicorn and lion, stroking their tails between their legs. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Page 325". Upper right corner. From Ireland's Supplement to Hogarth illustrated., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 108., Ms. note in Steevens's hand at bottom of print: From J. Ireland's Hogarth illustrated., and On page 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:
J. Ireland
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Animals, Goddesses, Gods, Erotica, Masquerades, and Sacrifices
Satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'A', 'a sacrifice to Priapus', an altar to Priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of Time is stabbed by a bishop and a butcher, his blood pouring into a bowl held up by a monkey in a surplice; opposite at right, burning hearts on an altar to Venus and Cupid decorated with doves and wigs; at the back of the room, a painting of a Bacchic subject, to either side shelves with jellies and cakes, labelled provactives, and two signs with the obscene pun 'Supper below'; to either side, 'B', two 'Lecherometers' in the form of barometers, at left labelled 'Expectation Hope Hot desire Extreem Hot Moist Sudden Cold', at right 'Cool Warm Dry Changable Hot moist Fixt'; above the design at centre, a clock with Heidegger's face at top, the hour hand 'Wit', the minute hand 'Impertinence', the second hand 'Nonsense', to either side a lolling unicorn and lion, stroking their tails between their legs. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State, date, and printmaker from Paulson., State with "Prouocatiues" changed to "Provocatives"., Caption below title: A. a sacrifice to Priapus. B. a pair of Lecherometers shewing [the] companys inclinations as they approach em. Invented for the use of ladys & gentlemen by [the] ingenious Mr. H[eidegge]r., "Price one shiling."--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 150 / Great masquerade., and On page 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748,
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Animals, Goddesses, Gods, Erotica, Masquerades, and Sacrifices
Title engraved in image., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from location of printmaker's place of business., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Above the engraved poem, an illlustration shows an angry-faced Jove seated in the clouds surrounded by gods and goddesses including Apollo, seated with his lyre and Momus in a hester's cap with bells. Jove holds a fist full of thunderbolts as he glares at the petition at his feet. In the background is a circular temple ablaze with rays of light. Above Pegasus leaps from Mount Helicon
Description:
Title from item., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., and "The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the Chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Music, Societies, etc.--, Gods, Greek, and Petitions
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., In upper margin: For the Year 1760 ; Pl. 61., The Radcliffe Infirmary was opened in 1770., 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 as the Act directs, Decr. 1, 1821, by J. Skelton, Magdalen Bridge, Oxford
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Aesculapius (Roman deity). and Radcliffe Infirmary.
Subject (Topic):
Transport of sick and wounded, Hospitals, Physicians, Crutches, People with disabilities, Gods, Litters, Sick persons, Breast feeding, and Snakes
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, 9 pedes et 6 digitos alta 7 pedes lata in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupid, Graces, The, in art, Venus, Gods, and Mythology
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., 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 (Name):
Aesculapius (Roman deity).
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacology, Gods, Putti, Mortars & pestles, and Snakes
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printer's date of death., Place of publication derived from printer's nationality., Trimmed within plate mark., 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: Anatomy in Art.
Publisher:
Phls. Galle excudit
Subject (Name):
Marsyas (Satyr). and Apollo (Deity).
Subject (Topic):
Flaying (Torture) in art, Human anatomy, Mythology, Greek, Gods, Violins, Panpipes, Knives, and Skin
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed., 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: Anatomy in Art.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Marsyas (Satyr). and Apollo (Deity).
Subject (Topic):
Flaying (Torture) in art, Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Mythology, Greek, Gods, Knives, and Skin
A volume of drawings mostly by Vertue in various medium and some engravings, with the drawings mounted or laid in, including twenty-two portraits; eighteen other drawings of allegorical figures, scenes from mythology, and a scene from Richard Steele's Spectator (1711), in which Yarico is drawn as a Native American Indian maiden. Some of the drawings are copies of engravings including those by Pierre Berchet, Claude Lorrain, and other unidentified sources. A few portraits are unidentified but most have been annotated with the name of the subject, some with additional annotations in Horace Walpole's hand: Sr. R. Walpole from Wotton; W. Caxton, printer; Sr. Is. Watts; Coverd[?]; Henry Howard Earl of Surrey; Junus; Dr. Clarke; Dr. Swift; Milton; Joseph Bowles, with a note indicating that the sketch took 55 minutes; Scarpu(?); T. Hearne; Tho. Tristram, dated 20 April 1723; Mich. Bergers; Chr. Mazard(?); Dr. Tudway, with a portrait of the Earl of Oxenford on verso; unidentified portrait with a portrait of Vertue on the verso; unidentified scholar, dated July 1729 Cambridge. Also tipped in are: an engraved portrait of Darcy Wentworth by Willem de Passe; an engraved portrait of William Parsons by Simon Gribelin, after Pierre Berchet; an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Goltzius; Hatchard, a gentleman of Berkshire who "was so very fat that he could not get into a hackney coach", S.G. sculp. Also included is a drawing of a pearl said to have been "taken out of the ear of my grandfather after his head was cutt off and given to the princess Royal. This the attestation of Queen Mary .. now in the possession of the Duke of Portland ... trans. by G. June 1735", later used for his engraving 1749? Also included is a portrait sketch identified as "Grimaldi" on wove paper and laid in (at a later date?) a sketch of a man on a sleigh pulled by a horse, also on wove paper
Alternative Title:
Drawings by Vertue
Description:
In English, some Latin., Title from Hazen., Leaves 14, 15 lacking images?, Binding: red morocco, now rebacked., Note on first blank in Horace Walpole's hand: "This was Mr. Vertue's, & most of the Drawings are by Him." Followed by a note in another hand: "Knowley Inner Library B.e. S.4. No. 21.", On front pastedown: Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1)., Also on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate of Lord Derby on front pastedown, with his shelf mark "3.B"., and Red morocco, now rebacked. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Burgers, Michael, -1726,, Bowles, Joseph, 1692 or 1693-1729,, Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492,, Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742,, Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735,, Junius, Franciscus, 1589-1677,, Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604,, Parsons, William, 1658-1725?,, Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,, Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,, Tristram, Thomas,, Tudway, Thomas, 1655 or 1656-1726,, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,, Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748,, and Wentworth, Darcy, 1592-1667,
Galestruzzi, Giovanni Battista, 1615 or 1618-approximately 1669, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1658]
Call Number:
Print01018
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., From: Opere di Polidoro da Caravaggio, Roma: Appresso l'autore, 1658., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cronus (Greek deity)., Gaia (Greek deity)., and Uranus (Greek deity).
Subject (Topic):
Mythology, Greek, Castration, Gods, Fathers, Mothers, Sons, and Sickles
