Leaf 9v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sand peddler with a bucket in his hand stands beside his cart in the foreground while a boy sits upon the sand in the cart; in the background the Orphan Hospital
Alternative Title:
Orphan Hospital
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Carts & wagons, and Almshouses
Bird's eye view of the inner courts towards the south; elegantly dressed figures stroll around courtyards, with the burial grounds in the distance
Alternative Title:
Bridewell
Description:
Title engraved within banner at top of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3246., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Sold by John Bowles, prints and map seller over against Stocks Market
Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain)
Published / Created:
[nor before 1798]
Call Number:
File 63 798 So678+
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Docket title., Date based on reference to this text on page 291. See Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 1811., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row St. James’s, for the Society for the Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and to be had gratis by the Members of the Society; and by others, at one shillling a dozen
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Parishes (Local government), Law and legislation, Fraternal organizations, Almshouses, and Poor
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Chancellor and bishop bringing newborn children carried on a wheelbarrow to the workhouse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "(60)" in brown ink in top center portion of design., Mounted on blue paper backing., and No. 60.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Infants, Wheelbarrows, and Almshouses
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: Dedicated to those two ugly old women, Mothers Brougham and Martineau., Asterisk in title is explained by note below image, in lower right: * For workhouse, read slave house., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 57.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Text in Latin and German., In margin upper right: 8., In margin lower center: Cum Priv. Sac. Coes. Maj., 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 headings: Hospitals, Austria; Poorhouses.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Hospitals, City & town life, and Streets
Title from item., Publisher and date supplied by curator., View is of an almshouse and a chapel consecrated to St. Mark (no longer extant), and Pfarre St. Augustine, outside the gates of Vienna., 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: Hospitals, Austria; St. Mark's Hospital (Vienna).
Publisher:
Johann Andreas Pfeffel
Subject (Geographic):
Austria and Vienna.
Subject (Name):
Pfarre St. Augustin (Vienna, Austria).
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Architecture, Croplands, Churches, Gates, and Farming
Title from item., Publisher and date 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: Hospitals, Austria; Poorhouses.
Title etched below image., Date in pencil lower left margin., Place of publication supplied by curator., Book illustration, possibly from an edition of Pennant's London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., 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 (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charterhouse School (Smithfield, London, England).
