Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical Fees -- Unsuccessful treatment, 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from lower margin., and Pasted to mounting sheet with ink and wash border.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1st, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Subject (Topic):
Death, Sick persons, Physicians, Wages, Military uniforms, and British
Title from item., Below title: Engraved expressly for the Parlor Annual., The Parlor Annual was published in New York, and this print was in Volume 5, 1845., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Deathbeds, Death, Older people, Priests, Grief, Family members, Prayer, and Medicines
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Date of publication derived from printmaker's date of death., An illustration for the novel by William Harrison Ainsworth: Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life, 1844., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alchemist's Laboratory.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Elixir of life, Alchemy, Scientific equipment, Laboratories, Death, Skulls, Skeletons, and Furnaces
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 101 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to, plate visible at bottom: 9.7 x 13.2 cm.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Published in Harper's Weekly, 7 June 1862., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, U.S.A.; Nurses & nursing; Wounds.
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Bontecou, Reed B. 1824-1907, (Reed Brockway), and Fort Monroe (Va.).
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Military, Military hospitals, Death, Hospital wards, Nurses, Physicians, War casualties, Ambulances, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and History
A punishment meted out to runaway slaves in Dutch Surinam as recorded by Stedman
Alternative Title:
Horrid torture of impalment alive as a punishment on runaway slaves and Horrid torture of impalement alive as a punishment on runaway slaves
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly bound in as frontispiece to: Seizure of the ship Industry by a conspiracy and the consequent sufferings of Capt. James Fox and his companions. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1810?]., From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possibly detached from: Lewis Walpole Library 86 810 Sc462.
Publisher:
Pub. by Thos. Tegg
Subject (Name):
Fox, James, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
Eskimos, Death, Families, Fugitive slaves, Punishment & torture, Enslaved people, Soldiers, and British
