Title from item., Date from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Below image at left: Baugniet Lith., 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: Stratton, Charles S. (1838-83).
Publisher:
Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen
Subject (Name):
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883,
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfism, Human curiosities, Dwarfs, Books, Pens, Eggs, and Bottles
Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title etched below image., After Hogarth's print of the same title., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 16.3 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 26.5 cm., and Printed in raw sienna ink on wove paper.
Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
Description:
Title etched below image., After Hogarth's print of the same title., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 16.3 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 18.6 x 26.5 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
Description:
Title etched below image., After Hogarth's print of the same title., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title and date from item., The Saturday Evening Post was published by Curtis Publishing, based in Philadelphia., Text at lower right: Contributed in the interest of the National Nutrition Program of the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Service, Paul V. McNutt, Director, by The Saturday Evening Post., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
The Saturday Evening Post
Subject (Name):
McNutt, Paul V. 1891-1955. (Paul Vories), and United States. Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Nutrition, Advertising campaigns, Food, Milk, Eggs, and Cheese
Title from item., In margin top right: Imagerie d'Épinal, No. 1156., Date supplied by curator., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Purgatives; Hypochondria; Apothecaries., and UL, LR corners missing. Edges torn and frayed. Creases from folding.
"Heading to engraved verses (which survive as a nursery rhyme) ... The woman stands at her cottage door, with her petticoats cut off to the knee. Her little dog barks at her. Behind (left) stands the pedlar, grinning, his box strapped to his shoulder. The verses end: 'He began to bark & she began to cry, Lord ha mercy on me, this is none of I, fal de ral.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Twenty lines of verse below title: There was a little woman as I've heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell, fal de ral, &c..., and Plate numbered '498' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 29, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Baskets, Eggs, Dogs, and Peddlers
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty., With the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p., and Trimmed to the image; mounted on verso of title page in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty.
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand centered at top of page: Columbus., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand between this print and another to the right: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 324., With Hogarth's signature in ink and wax seal. Also dated October 1, 1752 to Arlander Dobson Esqr., and On page 163 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to plate at top: 22.3 x 19.6 cm.
A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
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Title, publisher, and state from Paulson., Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over.", and A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty.
