A series of six scenes, three in two rows, showing skeletons in various activities, each individually captioned: Singing, Dancing, Music, Oratory, Painting, Sculpture
Description:
Title from text above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six designs on one plate, each individually captioned., Text below title: No. 2., and Watermark: W. King 1829.
Publisher:
Published 3rd June 1830 by S. Gans, 15, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Dancers, Musicians, Public speaking, and Skeletons
Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hungerfords Chapel
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., An inscription from the depicted painting is reproduced in ink below title., 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.
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 32.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 27.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 64 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 83 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
A bull in the guillotine awaits the fall of the blade. The executioner is depicted as a skeleton with Lord Stanhope's face. The sacrifice is supervised by Lord Lansdowne (as Janus) in a throne behind an altar on which rests the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. The Duke of Grafton on the right sets fire to these documents while Dr. Priestley looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition ..."; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 46 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 17 March 1794 by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France, and England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Janus (Roman deity), Politics and government, Foreign relations, Altars, Guillotines (Punishment), Skeletons, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Le Charivari, 20 May 1843., Above image: Les Malades et les Médecins 9., In image lower left: 13., 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: Hunchbacks; Spinal deformities.
Publisher:
Chez Pannier & Cie. Edrs. R. du Croissant, 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Orthopedics, Kyphosis, Patients, Sick persons, Physicians, Medical equipment & supplies, Skeletons, and Families
Title from item., From: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables choisies, mises en vers, 4 vols., Paris, 1755-1759., 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: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death, Death (Personification)., Sick persons, Skeletons, Scythes, and Bedrooms
Title etched below image., Date derived from subject., Place of publication from item., In margin lower right: Déposée à la Bibliothèque Natale., 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: Vaccination controversy.
Publisher:
chez Dépeuille, Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux Pilastres d'Or
Subject (Name):
Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Vaccination, Smallpox vaccine, Death (Personification)., Anti-vaccination movement, Physicians, Pharmacists, Skeletons, Scythes, and Children
Title in French etched above image., Title in English from "Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art"., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., Artist's name etched on plate at lower left., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and "James Ensor 1895" in pencil at lower right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Malpractice, Medical fees, Death (Personification)., Skeletons, Body parts, Death, Medical equipment & supplies, and Sick persons
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton holding an arrow, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item. and Date supplied by curator.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Memento mori, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, Pride, and Skeletons
