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22.
- Published / Created:
- [1839?]
- Call Number:
- 839.00.00.17
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three fashionable travellers on a boat, one woman and two men, are struggling in the wind; the waves and shore are shown in the background
- Description:
- Title from heading above image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Caption below image: Have we past Nore light yet, why every thing I had in me has come up but I don't think my light's have yet.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thomas C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Boats, Seas, Sightseers, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Trip to Margate [graphic].
23.
- Creator:
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873, cartographer
- Published / Created:
- 1847-1852.
- Call Number:
- Maury Charts 11cfk 1850A-4 1
- Image Count:
- 8
- Alternative Title:
- Maury's wind & current chart and Maury's wind and current chart
- Description:
- BEIN: 11cfk 1850A-4: Var. editions. 1 copy each of sheets 1-4 and sheets 5-8 mounted together on linen., Shows prevailing wind direction by month., Various eds. of some charts., Some sheets lack title and numberings., 1st and 2nd editions lack series designations A, B, C, etc., "The winds are denoted by small brushes, the head of the brush pointing to the direction whence the wind blows, the length of the brush shewing the comparative force.", "Eng. by Sherman & Smith N.Y."--Lower right margin on some sheets., "Series A.", Track chart, released as series A, a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. Covers the North Sea, the North Atlantic just west of the Hebrides, the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay. The track charts were designed to illustrate the routes sailed by numerous Navy and merchant vessels. Directions of currents encountered and the force and direction of winds were included for each track. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137., Some sheets numbered individually in upper left margin, e.g.: 1, 2., On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by M.F. Maury, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the southern district of New York., Accompanied by article from the magazine: Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation. [16] leaves (p. 123-137) : photocopies ; 28 x 22 cm., Sheet no. 2 annotations in red ink., Copy imperfect: Sheets 1-2, 4 and torn and repaired along folid line. Sheet 2 covered in varnish. Sheets 1-3, 5-8 discoloration throughout, mounted on cloth backing., and Includes notes and printed track lines for numerous voyages of many different vessels on some sheets.
- Publisher:
- U.S. Hydrographical Office
- Subject (Geographic):
- North Atlantic Ocean. and North Atlantic Ocean
- Subject (Topic):
- Nautical charts, Winds, Ocean currents, Trade routes, Shipping, and Oceanography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wind and current chart of the North Atlantic [cartographic material]
24.
- Creator:
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873, cartographer
- Published / Created:
- 1847-1852.
- Call Number:
- Maury Charts 11cfk 1850A-4 2
- Image Count:
- 5
- Alternative Title:
- Maury's wind & current chart and Maury's wind and current chart
- Description:
- BEIN: 11cfk 1850A-4: Var. editions. 1 copy each of sheets 1-4 and sheets 5-8 mounted together on linen., Shows prevailing wind direction by month., Various eds. of some charts., Some sheets lack title and numberings., 1st and 2nd editions lack series designations A, B, C, etc., "The winds are denoted by small brushes, the head of the brush pointing to the direction whence the wind blows, the length of the brush shewing the comparative force.", "Eng. by Sherman & Smith N.Y."--Lower right margin on some sheets., "Series A.", Track chart, released as series A, a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. Covers the North Sea, the North Atlantic just west of the Hebrides, the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay. The track charts were designed to illustrate the routes sailed by numerous Navy and merchant vessels. Directions of currents encountered and the force and direction of winds were included for each track. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137., Some sheets numbered individually in upper left margin, e.g.: 1, 2., On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by M.F. Maury, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the southern district of New York., Accompanied by article from the magazine: Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation. [16] leaves (p. 123-137) : photocopies ; 28 x 22 cm., Sheet no. 2 annotations in red ink., Copy imperfect: Sheets 1-2, 4 and torn and repaired along folid line. Sheet 2 covered in varnish. Sheets 1-3, 5-8 discoloration throughout, mounted on cloth backing., and Includes notes and printed track lines for numerous voyages of many different vessels on some sheets.
- Publisher:
- U.S. Hydrographical Office
- Subject (Geographic):
- North Atlantic Ocean. and North Atlantic Ocean
- Subject (Topic):
- Nautical charts, Winds, Ocean currents, Trade routes, Shipping, and Oceanography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wind and current chart of the North Atlantic [cartographic material]
25.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 February 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.02.10.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A thin, sharp-featured man walks in the teeth of the wind, holding on his hat, and with his left hand in his breeches pocket. His hat-brim, hair, cravat, coat, the tail of his shirt, the strings of his breeches and shoes, all fly backwards. He walks (right to left) up a rough sandy road edged by windswept bushes. A milestone is inscribed 'To Hampstead Hill'. On the horizon (right) is St. Paul's, dominating the spires of London, and backed by dense cloud."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Autumn, Cityscapes, Milestones, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Windy weather [graphic]
26.
- Creator:
- Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1802]
- Call Number:
- Drawer Drawings B995 no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
- Description:
- Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right., "The artist is said to have based the theatre in this image on the Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, opened in October 1750 near the South Gate, outside the medieval walls of Bath ... The theatre was the first country theatre to be granted a Royal patent and became known as the Theatre Royal, Bath. .... The theatre was closed in 1805."--Dealer's description., and With Joel Spitz's collector's label on verso of mount.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Coming out of a country theatre] [art original]
27.
- Creator:
- Trotter, Thomas, 1756-1803, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [7 April 1787]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 63. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title from later state., Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2427., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 63 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The storm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Winds, Rain, and Bonnets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The storm] [graphic]