A shelf, on which is a skull and a microscope. In an oval surrounded by flora reads A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. Below the signature of the plate's owner, at center, is a caduceus and additional flowers.
Subject (Name):
Goodyear, Emil S. and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, Flowers, Microscopes, Nature, Physicians, Skull, Skulls, and Snakes
"Rebecca Howse, as in British Museum Satires No. 10788, similarly posed but more upright, and seeming to stand for a portrait. She wears a neat fichu, a light print apron covers the greater part of her striped dress, and no cloak; her shoes are tied, not buckled."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 36 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Notebook containing a floral alphabet in watercolor and a journal headed "Tour up the Rhine," describing a family outing from Southold to Heidelburg and Wurtemburg in the summer of 1838
Description:
First page recto reads, "Emily Caroline Cobbold. 1836" in the same hand as the verses of the floral alphabet that follows. and Binding: Original board blank book.
Subject (Geographic):
Rhine River Valley
Subject (Name):
Cobbold, Emily Caroline.
Subject (Topic):
Flowers, Juvenile poetry, and Description and travel
A collection of 74 from a total of 139 drawings of plants with insects by Thomas Robins, all described in a 19-page catalogue in the artist's hand. The drawings are numbered in pencil [by a later owner?] on the verso, and in a few instances on the recto. For the catalogue Robins created five columns on each page in which he entered for each drawing the Linnaean name, the English name, the class, and the order as well as a list of the insects that appear in the image
Alternative Title:
Paintings of exotic plants and insects
Description:
Title from accompanying catalogue in artist's hand., Artist identified and suggested dates for the collection from Andrew Edmunds of London. See: The flower paintings of Thomas Robins the Younger / edited by John Anthony Robins. Poole Dorset : Published by John Robins, [1999], p. 86., Accompanied by a catalogue in the hand of the artist, listing 39 drawings numbered and identified on 19 unnumbered pages followed by 13 blank leaves. The catalogue with marble wrappers is titled on cover: A catalogue of paintings of exotic plants & insects., The Lewis Walpole Library holds 64 of the 139 drawings; the library lacks nos. 5, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 25-27, 29-30, 33-36, 38-40, 42-45, 47, 49-50, 55-56, 58-61, 64-65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-75, 78-80, 82, 84, 86, 88-92, 95, 97-98, 110, 115, 118-120, 124, 126, 128, and 134., and Housed in seven solander boxes. The catalogue is housed in Box 1.
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16th century]
Call Number:
Print00923
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., From: Francisci Petrarche, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff., Containing volume has editions of 1566, 1574, 1584., Woodcut is attributed to Hans Weiditz. Formerly attributed to Hans, Illustration for Cap. XXII, page 19., Trimmed within inscription., 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: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Smell, Flowers, Fruit, Plants, Herbs, Perfumes, and Pharmacists
Engraved title page on 2 leaves, with vignette in colors. and First published as the concluding part of his New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus, 1807.
