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
A stem of a violet with the heads in profile of eight figures -- Sir Walter Scott, Duke of Cumberland, Lord Brougham, King William, Queen Adelaide, Princess Victoria, Napoleon Buonaparte, Duke of Wellington -- are hidden amongst the leaves, stems, and blossoms
Description:
Title from item. and Date range for publication from the cataloged impression in the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, shelfmark: Puzzle pictures folder 2 (8b).
Publisher:
Published by R. Gilbert, 31 Oxford St. and W. & J.O. Clerk, litho., 202 High Holborn
Subject (Name):
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832,, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868,, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849,, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821,, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851,, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837,, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901,, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852,
"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
