Four fragments pasted around the inset of Jacob and Laban's flock, from a tankard belonging to the Clare Market Club. (See Paulson no. 25). The four fragments are probably impressions from a large silver platter and show Juno, Neptune, Tellus, and Vu...
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Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
Description:
Title, questionable attribution, and date from Paulson.
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding ...
Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered i...
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a cro...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
"Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following t...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Humphrey Drew
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
Satire on the Italian opera, apparently Handel's 'Flavio', act III, scene 4, with the three Italian opera singers of the title on the stage of the King's Theatre in the Haymarket; they sing the roles of Flavio, Emilia and Guido respectively. In a clas...
Description:
Title and date from Paulson and British Museum catalogue.
The interior of a seraglio shows a Turk with his harem, seated in a low hall that looks out to a garden. The women are served by eunuchs (the only other men allowed in the hall), one of whom peers in through the window to insure privacy. The master an...
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey. and Islamic Empire.
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Eunuchs, Harems, Interiors, and Servants
The Kendal arms; coat of arms of Countess Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenberg, in ornamental architectural cartouche, surmounted by coronet and with wild men, clothed in ivy, holdings clubs for supporters and two decorative cupids beneath the lozen...
Coat of arms of the admiral Lord Matthew Aylmer, with motto STEADY etched in reverse and four Cornish choughs, ducal coronet, two sailors on either side, one holding a lead line and the other a cross staff
The Kendal arms; coat of arms of Countess Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenberg, in ornamental architectural cartouche, surmounted by coronet and with wild men, clothed in ivy, holdings clubs for supporters and two decorative cupids beneath the lozen...
A Turkish bath; a white woman, nude apart from a cloth around her legs, seats on low steps in a bath-house with a high ceiling perforated by numerous round holes; a black woman servant standing behind her and assisting her. On the wall to the right is...
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, state, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Public baths, Therapeutic baths, Servants, and Women
The interior of a seraglio shows a Turk with his harem, seated in a low hall that looks out to a garden. The women are served by eunuchs (the only other men allowed in the hall), one of whom peers in through the window to insure privacy. The master an...
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey. and Islamic Empire.
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Eunuchs, Harems, Interiors, and Servants
The top of two images (by Hogarth) shows the first encampment of the King of Sweden; the lower image (by Parker) is a map of the encampment. In both cases there are keys to the numbers identifiying persons and places in the image. Charles XII and his ...
Alternative Title:
Bender
Description:
Title from banner at top of image.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743., La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743,, Fabrice, Friedrich Ernst von, 1683-1750,, and Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718,
A map of Stockholm with a medallion at the top depiciting the funeral memorial to Charles in gold, sent to high-ranking Swedes. The coins at the bottom represent Charles' sister and successor Ulrica Eleanora and her consort Frederick of Hesse. Other c...
