A young women wearing a mob cap and apron sits in a ladder-back chair, her hands raised in alarm and a look of surprise on her face
Description:
Title etched below image., Printed on one sheet with: Scorn., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A large, masculine-looking woman with spectacles and a hat, stands before stool on which sits an open book of music. She holds in her right hand a baton which rests on the open page
Description:
Title in artist's hand, lower right corner of image. and Signed with his monogram 'J.N." and dated by the artist.
Two elderly women in hats sit, the one on the left is facing forward with arns across her chest; the woman on the right turns to the right and holds a sheet in her hands
Description:
Title below image., Trimmed within design; lines in pencil drawn on left and top., Date and place of publication based on John Nixons known years of activity and location., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. annotation in lower left of image: John Nixon.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Below title: Born at Augsburg. Wife to Michael Vanbeck., Pencil note in margin: copy of portrait by Isaac Brunn, 1653., 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: Hirsutism.
Publisher:
Published by Wm. Richardson. Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Van Beck, Barbara, 1629-.
Subject (Topic):
Anomalies, Hypertrichosis, Endocrinology, Women, Human curiosities, and Harpsichords
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from poster style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Imp. P. Leménil, Asniéres
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Soap, Hygiene, Beauty, Personal, Women, Mirrors, and Soaps
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
Title from first line of letter press, above coat of arms., An admission ticket for the fifteenth day of the trial of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; the impeachment trial took place in Westminster Hall in April-June 1806., Engraved arms of the Great Chamberlain printed in sepia at center, with title printed in letterpress above., and "Dundas" written in black ink below coat of arms on recto. The letterpress form on the verso has been annotated with the name of "Miss Dundas" on the line for "The daughter of a Peeress in her own right"; this name may refer to either Elizabeth (1766-1852) or Anne (1768-1852). One corner of ticket (5.5 x 5.5 cm) has been neatly cut away, a lacuna that is explained by a later pencil note asserting that the corner had been cut away at the door when presented. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Trials (Impeachment), Women, and Legal status, laws, etc
"A young woman shown half-length to right with her back to the viewer, wearing a spotted neckerchief and a straw hat over her cap, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, holding a basket over her arm and holding up three fruits; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from text below image., For a later state bearing the imprint of Bowles & Carver, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1688., and Plate numbered "372" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Women, Baskets, Fruit, Peddlers, and Food vendors
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Artist's initials written in image., Above the womens' heads is written "1852" and "1870"., Published in Le Charivari, 25 April 1870., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and In pencil in lower margin: Oui (illegible signature). In pen below: Non (illegible signature).
Publisher:
A. de Vresse R Rivoli 55 and Lith Walter [...] r. Paradis Pre. 28
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Vaccination, Smallpox, Physicians, Women, and Medical equipment & supplies
