"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
Description:
Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
Description:
Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.