A Flemish or Dutch drawing of a female saint in a Poor Clare habit and with a crown of thorns (probably Catherine of Siena) kneeling before a crucifix, arms crossed over her chest, as she resists the temptation of riches, power, and pleasure. Riches a...
Alternative Title:
Female saint worshipping a crucifix
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
Subject (Topic):
In art, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Crucifixes, Musicians, Prayer, Saints, Temptation, and Wealth
Under an arch, St. Anthony in profile looking left, in prayer with a rosary between his hands and a small crucifix on the table before him. In the left distance a niche with a bowl
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Frederic seen in the background on the left, peering around a half-open door into an oratory. In the foreground on the right is a figure, completely hidden within a h...
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Frederic standing on the right in an oratory, leaning slightly backwards with a shocked expression on his face. Across the room from him on the left stands a skeleton...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Chapels, Interiors, Altars, Crucifixes, and Skeletons
"A young lady at confession; on the right, a monk leans on his elbow, right hand resting on a Bible, lecherously looking sideways at a young girl beside him, who stands holding a rosary, looking down sorrowfully with tears running down her cheek, she ...
Description:
Title from the Catalogue of the Society of Artists, 1771, no. 83.
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German ...
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German ...
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
"Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) in bed, supported on her right elbow, looks fixedly towards a warming-pan held by a stout woman who approaches the foot of the bed. In the perforations of the pan are stuck three ostrich feathers; a monk, holding up a crucifix...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 17, 1789 by S.W. Fores at his Caricatura Exhibition Rooms, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Births, Canopy beds, Crucifixes, Monks, and Rugs
Plate [109] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Cranmer burning on a stake to which he is chained at right, cleric at left thrusting a crucifix before him, guards behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's...
Alternative Title:
Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's...
Alternative Title:
Atheistical revolutionist disturbed in his midnight calculations
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1868?]
Call Number:
868.00.00.02 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Dr. Price, seated in a armchair at a writing desk strewn with papers and quill pens, turns his head, a startled look on his face, as he confronts the enormous spectacled face of Edmund Burke peering at him, his long nose resting on the back of Price's...
Alternative Title:
Atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations"
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
J.C. Hotten?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, Crowns, Crucifixes, Ghosts, and Studies (Rooms)
"PHYSICORUM: An old man's elongated head, wearing the old-fashioned wig of a doctor. To this is attached a garland of bunches of labelled medicine-bottles and pill-boxes. The 'Drafts are sleeping, purging, composing, emollient, opening, soporific, str...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Augt. 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Nuns, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Skulls, Hourglasses, Crucifixes, Pipes (Smoking), Tobacco products, Drinking vessels, and Alcoholic beverages
"PHYSICORUM: An old man's elongated head, wearing the old-fashioned wig of a doctor. To this is attached a garland of bunches of labelled medicine-bottles and pill-boxes. The 'Drafts are sleeping, purging, composing, emollient, opening, soporific, str...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Augt. 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Nuns, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Skulls, Hourglasses, Crucifixes, Pipes (Smoking), Tobacco products, Drinking vessels, and Alcoholic beverages
Badby is shown in a barrel surrounded by flaming faggots, with Henry Prince of Wales standing in the right foreground and a cleric holding up a small disc on the left. A crucifix hangs on an outside wall in the background
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J.J. Woodward
Subject (Name):
Badby, John, -1410., Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422., and Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Burning at the stake, Crucifixes, and Clergy
An Irish schoolmaster-priest, sits in a chair taking a pinch of snuff from an open snuff box as he catechizes a dwarfish Irish peasant, ragged and barelegged, who answers with a sly grin: 'O'C -- for O'Connell thats right--now Pat what does MP stand f...
Alternative Title:
Irish MPs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Crucifixes, Ethnic stereotypes, Peasants, Priests, Snuff, and Teachers
