Title supplied by curator. Alternate title from item., Date supplied by curator., Below title: Paroles de David pendant la peste que sa vanité avoit attiree sur Israel. 2.des Rois 24., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez François Chereau graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or 24
Subject (Geographic):
Epirus (Greece and Albania).
Subject (Name):
David, King of Israel.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine in the Bible, Plague, Fires, Death, Communicable diseases, Dead persons, Dead animals, Prayer, Grief, Angels, Smoke, and Sick persons
Manuscript, ink on paper, dated 693 Kisleṿ (1932). The traditional shiviti statement, Psalm 16:8, "I have set (shiviti) the Lord always before me" is written at the top of the document. In the center of the document is a large seven-branched candelabrum formed from the text of Psalm 67. At the very bottom of the menorah is a statement that this shiviti was made by Mosheh ben Yitsḥaḳ Mizraḥi. On either side there are two circles which contain the date and the place, the holy city of Jerusalem. The frame around the document consists of abbreviations, with the exhortation, "Know before Whom you stand" at the top. In the two upper corners and the center there are floral designs. At the bottom of the document is the name Yokheved bat ḥakham ʻAmram Mizraḥi.
Description:
In Hebrew.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem. and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Prayer, Judaism, Religious articles, Jewish art and symbolism, and Religious life and customs
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of text and printer's line printed in letterpress below title: Generous and exhilarating Bacchus, pour down, I beseech thee, ..., Printmaker from unverified data from card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 42.4 x 25.5 cm, Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printer's line., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
Publisher:
Pub'd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Interior of the chapel; the congregation assembled and in prayer, two levels of balconies on either side supported by Doric columns, domed ceiling over altar"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 16., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 114.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Religious services, Chapels, Altars, and Prayer
An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money and "A lean and sour-looking apothecary kneels in profile to the left at a stuffed high-backed elbow-chair, his tricorne hat and gold-headed cane beside him. Behind him (right) are a huge pestle and mortar standing on a block. He prays to 'mighty Esculapius!' to send 'a few smart. Fevers and some obstinate Catarrhs', calls down curses on the 'new-invented waterproof (the earliest instance of the word in the 'O.E.D.' is an advertisement of Jan. 1799), asks for compassion to his book of bad debts, and pins his hopes on the squire's lady having an heir which he may 'bring handsomely into the world ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Nineteen lines of letterpress text below title: O mighty Esculapius! hear a poor little man overwhelm'd with misfortunes ..., and One of a series of broadsides. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 July 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Spragg, printer, 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off the back of his chair. On the wall behind them is a picture of the three crosses on Calvary
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Numbered '27' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 16.2 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 18.4 x 25.2 cm., and Printed in vermillion ink on laid paper.
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off the back of his chair. On the wall behind them is a picture of the three crosses on Calvary
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Numbered '27' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Below title: Engraved expressly for the Parlor Annual., The Parlor Annual was published in New York, and this print was in Volume 5, 1845., 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 (Topic):
Deathbeds, Death, Older people, Priests, Grief, Family members, Prayer, and Medicines
"A plump woman kneels with clasped hands in profile to the left before an upright chair. She addresses 'Enchanting Pharaoh' (Faro), asks for ability to pay a debt of £5,000 to Captain Simper, for the frustration of a design upon her virtue, for protection for her Bank and especially for the protection of 'all our Honorable, and Right Honorable Fraternity from the Lectures of L-d K-n [Lord Kenyon], and all the dire horrors of the stocks and pillory!'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Four paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Enchanting Pharaoh, thee I address ..., and Bottom edge of sheet trimmed with probable loss of printer's line: Spragg, printer, 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.
Publisher:
Pub'd. August 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
