"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Ferdinand VII, seated on a throne on a low platform inscribed "TIRANIA", is flanked by two advisers, the Devil on the left and a friar on the right. At the friar's feet, in the foreground, a demon burns newspapers with a firebrand. Tortures of the Inq...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Washington
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wretched, broken-kneed horse, the legs tied up by five ropes round neck and fetlock or pastern, is violently maltreated by three men. One raises an axe to smite the bleeding neck, another applies a red-hot iron to a sore on the back, the third saws...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Ropes, Axes, Saws, and Veterinary medicine
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1853]
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears an...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Arms & armament, Helmets, Spears, Shields, and Axes
