A thin, ragged group of sansculottes sit on corpses around a table and feast on a decapitated head; behind them and above them are piles of body parts. An old woman squats before a fire basting the body of child that has been lashed to a spit. Three small children sit on the floor before a tub filled with entrails. On the wall above the fireplace is a stick figure labelled 'Petion' ; he holds an axe in one hand and a decapitated head in the other. To the sideis another drawing of a headless man labelled "Lewis le Grand."
Alternative Title:
Family of sans-culottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day and Family of sansculottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., An epigram in three columns etched on a separate plate, printed below title: Epigram extempore on seeing the above print. "Here as you see, and as 'tis known ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges of upper plate and bottom edge of lower plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 20th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Pétion, J. 1756-1794 (Jérôme),
Title from text below image., Possibly designed to be bound with: Rutter, J. Delineations of Fonthill and its abbey, 1823. See: Millington, J. Engravings of Fonthill. In: The Beckford journal, v. 7 (Spring 2001), page 47., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1823.
An explanatory design of the telegraph, built for the transmission of messages, over the Admiralty, Whitehall; the main image shows the telegraph on top of the Officer's Cabin with all the shutters closed; engraved lettering below, and around the edge, lettered from A to R, are further smaller telegraphs with shutters open in various different positions according to the specific letter signalled. Inscribed with letters above and within images, and with five short paragraphs of lettering below main image, three with the heading: "Explanation of the Telegraph / The Alphabet explained / Sentences explained".
Description:
Title from text engraved along the top of the image., All engraved., "Price 1 shilling.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pud. March 26, 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
"Interior view; watchmen assembling for their nocturnal rounds, wearing heay brown coats, black caps, holding lanterns."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Watch House, St. Marylebone
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 91., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 217., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Marylebone (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
"View from the river of the West India Docks, near Blackwell, with ships lined up by the docks on the left, small row boats at mid-stream."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 92., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 218., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View from the river of the West India Docks, near Blackwell, with ships lined up by the docks on the left, small row boats at mid-stream."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 92., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 218., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 33.8 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted ... On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: 'David watching Bathsheba bathing', 'St. Anthony tempted by monsters', 'Eve tempting Adam with the apple', and 'Judas kissing Christ', the last being over the head of Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip to the Continent and Wife and no wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent., and Watermark: Strasburg bend & lily / W and J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Churches, Clergy, Monks, Royal weddings, and Sleeping
"Interior view of the women's common room of the workhouse, situated on Poland Street; slim columns supporting ceiling; women sit on benches at tables."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 96., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 242., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish)
"Cavalry in battle; a mounted soldier shooting a man off his horse in foreground, a fallen horse and rider at his feet; battle raging in background, a tower to the right, and in distance on left a bridge."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed with printmaker's initials in lower right corner of design. Tentatively attributed to Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith in the British Museum online catalogue., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0711.1029., and Printed on J. Whatman paper watermarked '1810'.
A collection of five botanical drawings, one with two hummingbirds (Lampornis calosoma) and twenty botanical prints (some proof state) by James Sowerby
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Housed in two solander boxes, with drawings in Box 1 and prints no.1-9. Box 2 contains prints nos. 12-17 and two unnumbered prints.
