"Cave entrance ̶ either Jin Fu San or Omei [Emei], probably latter 'Stone Cow Cave'." A natural vaulted ceiling of rock is shown outside a cave entrance in a mountain.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Gene 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Pencil marking in margins.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abraham (Biblical patriarch).
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medicine in the Bible, Dead persons, Shrouds, Caves, and Tombs
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered 'Plate 3' in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Personifications: Liberty -- Animals -- Reference to France: Calais -- Monuments -- Reference to William Allen -- Reference to the Young Pretender -- Michael Curry, 1732-1788, printer -- Justice Gillam.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Egremont, Charles Wyndham, Earl of, 1710-1763, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Title from item., Publication year erased and corrected in ink to '1770'. Dated by the repository from listing of the pantomime under this date and title in Schneider, Index to the London Stage, p. 390., Two rows of four frames, each with four lines of verses below the design., Below the verses in top left frame: Price 3d. Colour'd 6d., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Paris: Caisse d'Escompte -- Siege of Gibraltar -- America -- American bonds -- Battles: sea battle -- Grist mills -- Caves -- Rock of Gibraltar., and Countermark in center of sheet: IP MM.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17 Nov. 1770, by I. Strutt, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, E. Burns, No. 54, Tottenham Court Road, and E. Newberry, corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Naval warfare, and Caves
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore depicted full-length on the right, wearing armor and holding a shield in his left arm, facing left and holding a sword out in front of him. He stands beside the entrance to a cave on the left, the interior of which is shrouded in darkness. Small rocks and a broken tree trunk are in the foreground; tree branches, two birds, and a cloud-filled sky are seen above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in ink in lower right corner., and Tipped in opposite page 120 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
A group of men explore a cave Peak Cavern (in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales), some with candles in their hats, most with candles in the hands. One holds a quizzing glass to his eye as he looks up at the ceiling of the cave. They stand on the edge of an underground lake. One man lays on his back in a small rowboat on the lake and gazes at the ceiling above; a dog sits at his feet
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 94' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two men both with lit candles on their hats and candles in their hands look anxiously around as the walk through a cave, presumably Peak Cavern (also know as the Devil's Arse).
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom, and right side., Numbered "Plate 92" in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russe 1797.
A line of men cross an underground river in Peak Cavern (in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales). Some of the men are riding on the backs of their companions while others lead the way holding lit candles in their hands or wearing them in their hats. Stalactites hang from the ceiling of the cave
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Numbered 'Plate 96' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
