Title from catalog., "Blampied Oct. 1929" inscribed above image, and "Blampied" reversed at lower right. "A." at lower left., Place of publication based on artist's place of residence., and In ink, "E. Blampied" at bottom center.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Gout, Newspapers, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks).
Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
"An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashioned coat buttoned to the neck. An outline sketch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Older men -- Walking staves., and Watermark (partial): I Ville...
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 15, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashioned coat buttoned to the neck. An outline sketch."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with original imprint burnished from plate. See no. 7970 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Place and date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Aug. 15, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street., and Watermark.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, printmaker
Published / Created:
[19th century].
Call Number:
Print00869
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Original date is 1654. This is a 19th century restrike., Place of publication based on Rembrandt's nationality., 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):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Temple visit at age twelve, Medicine in the Bible, Priests, Boys, and Older people
Title from item. Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., 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: Children & childcare.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Poverty, Child care, Syphilis, Children, Vegetables, Cookery, Older people, Spinning apparatus, Hand tools, Families, Poor persons, and Fireplaces
"An engraving, which represents a clergyman (? Jeremy Taylor) showing to a lady (? Lady Carberry) a mirror, in which she is reflected as a skeleton; by her side is a child, who points to the mirror; and behind her stands an old man, lifting up his hands in astonishment. On the table, which sustains the mirror, is written "Fades natiuitatis suae, James 5. 23"; and on a scroll on the ground, "Vigilate et Orate quia nescitis horam"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from other states described in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. No. 821 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., Later annotations in an unidentified hand on verso, partially trimmed off and covered by mounting sheet., and Window mounted to 23 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Mirrors, Clergy, Skeletons, Children, and Older people
Title supplied by curator., Original painting also known as "The Alchemist"., Date supplied by cataloger., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Office, interior., and Title in pencil in margin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Old age, Medical offices, Skulls, Older people, Books, Hourglasses, and Writing materials
Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Description:
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image., Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148., Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783., Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
