A middle-aged woman in a cap, and wearing earrings, a bracelet and necklace, raises her fist in anger at a young servant girl. The girl also in a cap, looks back over her shoulder at her mistress in surprise and fear
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered 'No. 18' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This unruly passion shews itself in a forcible degree in a termagant mistress scolding her maid servant., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and State without plate number.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Published: George Smeeton, Biographia Curiosa, or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George the Third, London, J. Robins and Co., 1822., 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: Anecdotes.
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Happiness, Fences, Women, and Clothing & dress
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