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1. American country scene in summer [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1865?]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 865.00.00.16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed with some loss of image on three sides., and Mounted to 52 x 66 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by John Smith, No. 710, Sansom St.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > American country scene in summer [graphic]
2. Come on! begin the grand attack with aloes, squills, and ipecac ... / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1806]
- Call Number:
- Print01188
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from first lines of verses etched below image, in the column on the left., Verses in leftmost column continue: ... and then with clyster pipe and squirt gun, there will be monstrous deal of hurt done! Canto 4, p. 235., Plate from: Fessenden, T. The modern philosopher, or, Terrible tractoration! Philadelphia : From the Lorenzo press of E. Bronson, 1806., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., Verses below image, in the column on the right: Pelt the vile foe with weapons missle; make' vials round their sconces whistle; shower on them a tremendous torrent, of gallypots and bottles horrent. Canto 4, p. 236., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters.
- Publisher:
- Lorenzo Press
- Subject (Name):
- Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medical equipment & supplies and Hearing aids
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Come on! begin the grand attack with aloes, squills, and ipecac ... / [graphic]
3. Congressional pugilists [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1798?]
- Call Number:
- 798.02.15.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A crude portrayal of a fight on the floor of Congress between Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold of Connecticut. The row was originally prompted by an insulting reference to Lyon on Griswold's part. The interior of Congress Hall is shown, with the Speaker Jonathan Dayton and Clerk Jonathan W. Condy (both seated), Chaplain Ashbel Green (in profile on the left), and several others looking on, as Griswold, armed with a cane, kicks Lyon, who grasps the former's arm and raises a pair of fireplace tongs to strike him. Below are the verses: "He in a trice struck Lyon thrice / Upon his head, enrag'd sir, / Who seiz'd the tongs to ease his wrongs, / And Griswold thus engag'd, sir."
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Below image in lower right corner: Congress Hall, in Philada., Feb. 15, 1798, S.E. Cor. 6th & Chestnut St., Four lines of verse in two columns below image in center: He in a trice struck Lyon thrice, upon his head, enrag'd sir, who seized the tongs to ease his wrongs, and Griswold thus engag'd, sir., Three of the spectators are identified by numbered references etched on left and top of plate, outside image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Pictures amplifying subject: cock fight., and Mss. annotation above plate "from Mr. McAllister, 30 August 1859, his father has the plate."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Griswold, Roger, 1762-1812, Lyon, Matthew, 1749-1822, Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824, Condy, Jonathan Williams, 1770-1828, Green, Ashbel, and Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.),
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Fighting, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Congressional pugilists [graphic].
4. Contract between Thomas L. McKenney and J. T. Bowen with supporting documents, 1847 Feb 4-Jul 17.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2536 C7681
- Image Count:
- 7
- Abstract:
- Manuscript contract, dated 1847 Feb 4, in ink, between Thomas L. McKenney and John T. Bowen. Agreement states terms for the revision and republication of McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a work McKenney first published in 1837 with James Hall. Appended to the contract is a supporting document, signed by Victor G. Audubon and dated 1847 Feb 4, providing a limited guarantee of Bowen's fiscal obligations to McKenney. Another manuscript document, addressed to McKenney from Bowen and dated 1847 Feb 15, records Bowen's offer to find another guarantor or cease further publication of the work. The last sheet documents McKenney's assignation of power of attorney to John Paine of New York (section dated 1847 July 17) and Paine's assignation of power of attorney to Robert M. Strattan of New York (section dated 1847 May 27). Documents are bound together with ribbon
- Description:
- Thomas Loraine McKenney, author, Superintendent of Indian Trade (1816-1822), first Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1824-1830). John T. Bowen, British artist and engraver born in 1801, active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. and Removed from an imperfect copy of Thomas Loraine McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America (Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848-1850), autographed on front wrappers of part 17 by R. M. Strattan, 242 Water Street.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860., Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, Hall, James, 1793-1868., McKenney, Thomas L. 1785-1859. (Thomas Loraine),, Paine, John, fl. 1847., and Strattan, Robert M.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors and publishers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Contract between Thomas L. McKenney and J. T. Bowen with supporting documents, 1847 Feb 4-Jul 17.
5. Cuthbert Simpson tortured on the rack in the Tower of London [graphic].
- Creator:
- Neagle, John B., approximately 1796-1866, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1830]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.161
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man, wearing only a loincloth, is shown being stretched on a rack. Two men, on the right and left edges of the image, work the mechanism of the torture device. Three men observe from the far side of the rack, the central figure wearing aristocratic clothes and a ruff
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Foxe, J. Fox's Book of martyrs, or, The acts and monuments of the Christian Church. Philadelphia : J.J. Woodward, 1830., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
- Publisher:
- J.J. Woodward
- Subject (Name):
- Tower of London (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Martyrs, Punishment & torture, and Punishment devices
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cuthbert Simpson tortured on the rack in the Tower of London [graphic].
6. John Badby burnt in a tun [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1830]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.160
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Badby is shown in a barrel surrounded by flaming faggots, with Henry Prince of Wales standing in the right foreground and a cleric holding up a small disc on the left. A crucifix hangs on an outside wall in the background
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Foxe, J. Fox's Book of martyrs, or, The acts and monuments of the Christian Church. Philadelphia : J.J. Woodward, 1830., "Page 105"--Below image in lower right., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
- Publisher:
- J.J. Woodward
- Subject (Name):
- Badby, John, -1410., Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422., and Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
- Subject (Topic):
- Martyrs, Burning at the stake, Crucifixes, and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Badby burnt in a tun [graphic].
7. The election humbly inscrib'd, to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley
- Published / Created:
- 1765]
- Call Number:
- 765.00.00.16+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Election humbly inscribed to the Saturday-Nights Club in Lodge Alley
- Description:
- Engraved broadside illustrated at top of plate with an etching., In verse., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Figure of Justice -- Figure of two-faced Treachery -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 -- Britannia -- America: State House in Philadelphia? -- America: allusion to Germantown -- Electors: Pennsylvania, 1764 -- Elections: Pennsylvania, 1764 -- Pennsylvania constables -- Clergy -- Clubs: allusion to Saturday-Night's Club, Lodge Alley -- Cap and staff of liberty., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The election humbly inscrib'd, to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley
