"Séminaire, 4, Rue Driant, Eckmühl. - Oran (Algérie). - Cour du Grand Séminaire." The Grand Seminary building rises behind a courtyard full of trees and a fountain. Part of the roof is not shingled, but instead has a fence so that it may be used as a porch.
"Series V. - 1. The Great Cloister, Rameswaram." The interior of the Great Cloister reveals many ornate columns on either side of a long passageway. The ceiling is also decorated with special design. Additional information on the back notes that postcard profits benefit Industrial Schools in India.
"View looking across a lawn towards the house; a pond on the left with a dog drinking and ducks swimming, an elegantly dressed family with a dog and small girl in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Second in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 47 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Highbury (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Social & civic facilities, Dogs, Lakes & ponds, and Ducks
Leaf 42. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a town square with a two storeyed building on the left (Hotel D'hambourgh) and a low stable like building facing the viewer. In the centre stand various figures including a monk riding in a carriage. Another monk is seen buying potatoes at a market. A group of troubadours attract the attention of a woman from an upper window of the building on the left."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810367., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 42 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Buildings, Plazas, Carriages & coaches, and Monks
"Political satire; under a sinking sun in which is drawn a crown, with the words "Obscured, not lost", a masked figure with a crow-bar labelled "Begum Sophistry" and the Prince Regent with a broken axe labelled "Presumptive Rights" try to break down the door of the Treasury, while another picks the lock, labelled "G R" with keys labelled "Tropes"; behind them stands a man in black with a lantern labelled "Loyalty", a belt labelled "Truth" and a clapper labelled "Vox Populi"; from the window of the Treasury, Pitt attacks the house-breakers with a blunderbuss labelled "Constitution"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Housebreaking before sunset
Description:
Title etched below image., "Pr. 1s."--Below image, lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Pick axes -- Padlocks -- Swords -- Masks -- Guns -- Setting sun -- Watchman's lanterns -- Emblems: King's monogram on the padlock., Watermark: Fleur de lis on crowned shield, with initials G R below., and Mounted to 44 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 6t 1789 by R. Butters, 79 Fleet Stt
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
A portrait of Albert Warren Stearns Jr. with a small picture of a house in the upper left corner, a mountain range in the upper right. Beneath, in the lower left, is a church and to the right a larger multi-storied building.
Subject (Name):
Stearns, Albert Warren, Jr., 1913-1939
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Medical colleges, Physicians, and Portraits
An island consisting of a thick mass of flora surrounds much of a rock-like object, on which is the title text of this bookplate. Across still waters a sailing vessel can be seen in the distance; even further, a castle.
Subject (Name):
Garnett. J.
Subject (Topic):
Apothecaries, Buildings, Nature, Ships, and Skeleton
