Leaf 4v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A knife grinder works at his portable grinding machine in the foreground with the turrets of Heriot's Hospital in the background
Alternative Title:
Heriot's Hospital, from foot of W. Bow
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
George Heriot's Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Street vendors, Sharpening & honing tools, and Grinding machines
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull pushing old politicians into a machine which grind them and turn them into young and honest people."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in bottom center portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "123" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 123.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Grinding machines, Older people, Young adults, Scepters, Telescopes, Pitchforks, and Ladders
Title and publisher from item., Date supplied by curator., In lower margin: Printed in U.S.A. ; 7899-B., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., and Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156., and On page 232 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 22.4 x 14.3 cm.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
