Drawing of a stagecoach driving to the left down a dirt road, the four horse team in full gallop. Two passengers ride on top of the coach along with the driver and bugler; several passengers inside can be seen through the windows. Trees line the road, with the top of a church or cathedral visible directly behind the coach and the spire of another church barely visible in the distance at the end of the road. A river or stream occupies the forground and enters an arched tunnel that disappears under the road
Description:
Title written below image., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 222 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
"View of the town from Richmond Hill, the Thames at the centre, a road in the right foreground with figures and a coach."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en descendant la Tamise
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 4 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England), Thames River (England), England, and London.
"View next to the main road in Hampstead; elegantly dressed figures on foot path, trees on either side; a carriage on road in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Hampstead from the footway next the great road Pond Street and Vüe de Hampstead de la chaussee pres du grand chemin Rue du Bassin
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.2824., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 12 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Hampstead (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Roads, Carriages & coaches, Trails & paths, Pedestrians, and Trees
"View looking down the road from Holloway to Highgate; wagons, farmers with animals, riders and people on road, Highgate in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Highgate du cote du haut Holloway
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.2825., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 13 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
BEIN 766 1909: Original wrappers. Illegible inscription on front wrapper., Also has a 48 page Route Guide to Massachusetts, Connecticut & R.I. This company also published maps of the west in the 1870's, under the name Edward Mendenhall. Covers are brown card board 18.5x11.5 printed with an illustration of three people in an automobile and the title "Mendenhall's Guide And Road-Map of Connecticut With District Maps. C.S. Mendenhall, Map Publisher, Cincinnati. Price 75 Cts.", and Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.
"A coach without passengers or driver proceeds (right to left) with the wheels sunk in sand (resembling water). Beside it trudge the driver (left), the guard with his blunderbuss, and two men passengers. On a bank above the road, two ladies and two men run in the same direction. On the roof of the coach are band-boxes and a turtle; on the door a swan with two necks (sign of the famous coaching-inn in Lad Lane)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and right sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales. London : Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, 1796., "Plate 45" etched in upper left; "Page 109" etched in upper right., Printed on paper watermarked "1813". Window mounted to 44 x 28 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
The correspondence consists chiefly of letters from Stanley Pogozelski to his wife Mary C. Pogozelski. The letters were written from Yukon, Canada, and Alaska in 1943 and 1944, when Stanley worked as a laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway (also known as the Alaska Highway), employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, in order to maintain a draft deferral. The letters document the daily life of the workers on the highway, as well as Stanley Pogozelski's travel in the Yukon and Alaska. Material includes letterheads illustrated with scenes of Alaska. Also included are a few letters from Mary C. Pogozelski to Stanley Pogozelski, and correspondence with Bechtel-Price-Callahan relating to Pogozelski's draft status
Description:
Stanley Pogozelski worked as a civilian laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway, employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, during the Second World War. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., Yukon., Canada., United States., Alaska, Alaska Highway., and Yukon
Subject (Name):
Pogozelski, Mary C., Pogozelski, Stanley., Bechtel Corporation., H.C. Price Co., W. A. Bechtel Company., and W. E. Callahan Construction Company.
Subject (Topic):
Road construction workers, Roads, Design and construction, World War, 1939-1945, Transportation, and Description and travel
Peutinger table and Tabvla itineraria ex illvstri Pevtingerorvm Bibliotheca
Description:
BEIN 2016 +333: Imperfect: title panel mutilated, with some loss of text. Sheets joined together to form a roll; backed in linen., Relief shown pictorially., "MD" in publication date in apostrophic forms., Appears in Ortelius' Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. Antwerp, 1624., and "Peutinger Table: Road map of Western Roman Empire about 250 A.D. bought by Conrad Peutinger and published in Venice by Aldus in 1591 (2 sections only), in Antwerp 1598 (12 sections) ... The only record of Roman map making that has survived to the present day."--Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. New York, 1979.
