Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Above image at right: S. 319., Below image at left: No.4., 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: Mausoleum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Mortality, Death, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Skeletons
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., In margin upper right: Tab. IV., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., 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: Anatomical illustration; Musculo-skeletal system.
Publisher:
Impensis J.&P. Knapton, Londini, 1747
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Rhinoceroses
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., In margin upper left: Tab. III., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., 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: Anatomical illustration.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton, Londini, 1747
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Muscles
Martínez, Crisóstomo, approximately 1638-approximately 1694, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1690]
Call Number:
Print20003
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., 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: Anatomy for artists.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Proportion (Anthropometry)., Anatomy, Artistic, Human body, Muscles, and Skeletons
Scotin, Gérard Jean Baptiste, 1698-approximately 1755, printmaker
Published / Created:
1749.
Call Number:
Print20081
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication from item., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., The Knapton edition is unauthorized., 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: Anatomical illustration.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., In margin upper right: Tab. I., 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: Anatomical illustration.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton, Londini, 1747
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Putti
Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by cataloger., With a description, written in ink, above and to the right of drawing: Painted on the wall in Hungerfords Chapple, Salisbury. This is painted on the wall within Hungerfords Chapple adjoyning to Salisbury Cathedral ..., Inscriptions from the painting are reproduced in ink below image, under the headings "over the gallant young mans head" and "writt over the figure of the sceleton"., and Mounted on page 49 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Death (left) poises his javelin, about to strike an old man in bed, reading a book by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The room is heaped with his treasures (armour, &c.). Rats scamper, chased by a cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue; the assigned title for each plate from The English dance of death is the heading to the opposite printed page., Early (proof?) state, before aquatint added. For a later state, see no. 12412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from imprint on later state: London, Pub. 1 April 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of text below image., Later state issued in: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 320., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Ink verse notation on verso, perhaps in Rowlandson's hand; additional pencil notation on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Wills, Skeletons, Spears, Beds, Sleeping, Cats, Rats, Armor, Musical instruments, Books, Candles, Artists' materials, Urns, and Sculpture
Title below image in Latin and German: Genesis Cap. L.v.2.3. Iacobus aromate conditus. ; I. Büch Mosis Cap.L.v.2.3. Der Balsamirte Jacob., Translated title supplied by curator., Place and year of publication from source volume., In margin upper right: Tab.CXIV., From: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, Augustae Vindelicorum & Ulmae, 1731-1735., 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):
Jacob (Biblical patriarch).
Subject (Topic):
Embalming, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medicine in the Bible, Mummies, Dead persons, Grief, Undertakers, Skeletons, and Dogs
