Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication unknown., Done in a European Medieval style., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 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):
Childbirth, Servants, Mothers, Fireplaces, Eating & drinking, and Infants
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from date of original painting., After the painting "The Village Doctor" in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, ca. 1660-1665., Sheet trimmed., 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: Uroscopy.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Urine, Analysis, Medicine, Rural, Physicians, Country life, Books, Medicines, Hourglasses, Retorts, and Fireplaces
Title from item. Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., 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: Children & childcare.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Poverty, Child care, Syphilis, Children, Vegetables, Cookery, Older people, Spinning apparatus, Hand tools, Families, Poor persons, and Fireplaces
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An interior scene, with four people seated and presumably eating around a table on the right. A man and a woman stand apart from the others on the left, beside a fireplace. Three arched windows are seen on the wall in the background
Description:
Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed by the artist in upper left corner., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Windows
A kitchen scene with three female domestics. One is bending over offering an excited dog some sustenance from a tilted bucket while a second looks on with a slight smile. A third servant sits laboring in front of the fireplace
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Signed with the artist's initials in black ink below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Kitchens, Women domestics, Fireplaces, Animal feeding, and Pets
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1746]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
Alternative Title:
Madame du Deffand's cats and S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator., Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils., Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 64 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 and Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Cats, Furniture, and Fireplaces
Volume 2, page 12. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
From an original drawing by Isaac Ostade
Description:
Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 12 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing with a pen by I. Ostade in possion. of J.T.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Interiors, Fireplaces, Barrels, Pitchers, Cats, Violins, Brooms & brushes, and Hygiene
Volume 2, page 3. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
In the collection of James Harris Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator., Mounted on page 3 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., and Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing with a pen and [...?], by A. Ostade in possion. of Mr. Harris.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Interiors, Fireplaces, Barrels, and Hygiene
Title devised by the cataloger., Publication information from another print in this work: Lieut. Bowling visits Rod. Random in prison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to: Adventures of Roderick Random, chapter 21., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: garrets -- Poverty -- Sickness -- Medical: medicine vials., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
"A pretty young wife sits beside an aged doting and rich husband, reading to him. He delightedly contemplates his glass, which is being filled by Death, who leans over a screen. The girl's left hand is held by a young officer who leans through the window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon and When the old fool has drank his wine and gone to rest, I will be thine
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: When the old fool has drank his wine / and gone to rest, I will be thine., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 106., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life -- Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1, 1814, by R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Marriage, Skeletons, Courtship, Adultery, Military officers, British, Eating & drinking, Alcoholic beverages, Windows, Interiors, Stringed instruments, Books, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Screens
