“2. Felix Makolovera, derde inlandsche priester in Opper-Congo. Missionarissen van Afrika (Witte Paters). 2. Felix Makolovera, troisième prêtre noir du Haut-Congo. Missionnaires d’Afrique (Pères Blanc).” Father Felix Makolovera, the third native priest in the Upper Congo, is shown in his vestments. The caption is printed on the back of the postcard. Handwriting in French covers the back of the card.
“Pater Lievens geknakt.” Missionary father Lievens is depicted in a cassock with a knit scarf around his neck. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Uitg.: ‘Lievenspenning voor Indische Priesters’. 11, Minderbroedersstraat, Leuven, Postrek. 116834. Met wankelenden tred, steunend op een stok, kuchend en hoestend, steeple zich de ‘apostel van Chota Nagpore’ nog een tijdje voort.” There is no handwriting on the back.
"Father Superior of Kano Mission at his writing table" A bearded priest is smoking a pipe and writing on papers on his desk. A bookcase is in the background.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First panel: Fieschi, an obese man holding a small glass and a cigar, is slumped down in a chair in front of a table on which a bowl of "infernal soup" sits; an officer and a monk stand over him; second panel: Beresford kneels and prays to a tall demon figure materializing from a cloud of smoke; the demon stands within a ring created by bags of money while wearing a crown of skulls and holding a staff with a skull and crossbones at the end
Description:
Titles from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of first panel of design., Probably a print from the series The political drama, which was published ca. 1833 by G. Drake; see British Museum online catalogue., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Sheet trimmed with probable loss of imprint and series statement. Conjectured to be no. 125 in the series based on the number "125" written in brown ink in lower left corner of first panel of the design., Mounted on green paper backing., and No. 125.
Publisher:
G. Drake
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Fieschi, Joseph, 1790-1836 and Beresford, James, 1764-1840
“Col. Leray ̶ Cliché Augouard. Souvenir de Brazzaville. Missionary fathers are shown together and with children at the mission in five photos. There is no handwriting on the back of the postcard.
"A stout lady (left), her hands in a muff, cannonades into a fat parson walking in the opposite direction. Behind (right) a rider urges his horse forward; on the left a pedestrian walks into a pond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '144' in lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Female costume -- Walking staves -- Signposts., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published 22d Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775-approximately 1833, printmaker
Published / Created:
1807.
Call Number:
807.00.00.12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folding plate from: Stultifera Navis ... the Modern Ship of Fools, W.H. Ireland., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Fool -- Demons: Satyr -- Peacock -- Ass -- Pope -- Anglican Bishop -- Turk -- King -- Peer -- Military officer -- Female costume: 1807 -- Military Uniform: Officer.
