A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
Alternative Title:
Pinnacle of liberty
Description:
Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, and Mounted to 47 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
Description:
Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Theatre Royal and [J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on three scrolls of parchment, two of which have been crudely stitched together, while the third is separate. They concern inhabitants of the castle and town of Lustignano in the valley of the river Cornia in Northwestern Italy. 1) Land transaction between Niccholaus, duke of Volterra, and Iohannes, Count of Lustignano, on behalf of a certain Michael; signed by the notary Guarnerius; dated 1350 (detached). 2) Unidentified land transaction involving Iohannes filius [one word unclear] de Lustignano; name of notary scratched out; dated 1304. 3) Bill of contumacy involving Raymerus Balduccus and the brothers "Iohannes and Michelis"; signed by the notary Barthalus Sanuccius (?) of Volterra; dated 1346
Description:
In Latin., Script: All were written in cramped and abbreviated chancery hands. Filing notes, in Italian (17th century), on dorse of each scroll., and Second roll is mutilated and worn, with text illegible at head and tail.
The son of the sultan is handed over by his father (right) to Cornwallis (left) with the British camp in the background. Soldiers flank Cornwallis; next to the Sultan is his other son and a servant(?).
Alternative Title:
Tippoo Saib's two sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis and Tippoo Sahib's two sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in lower left below image: 287., Numbered in lower right corner: (Plate 2)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799. and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, Children, Hostages, and Prisoner exchanges
Two oval images printed against a patterned background with a stylized floral border. The image on the top shows Tippoo Sahib's wife, mother of his two sons as she kneels outside a tent on a rug; she embraces her one son as the other son stands behind him. Tipu Sultan stands in the background with a woman servant(?). In the image below, the young boy his handed over by his father (left) to Cornwallis (right) with the British camp in the background. Soldiers flank Cornwallis; the Sultan is attend by two of his men. The title of the top image is engraved in a legend on the left; the legend on the right continues the title of the image on the bottom
Alternative Title:
Tippoo Sahib's two sons taking leave of their mother and Tippoo Sahib's two sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis
Description:
Titles from legends to the left and right of the images., Print is modder on calico?, After two mezzotints published originally by Robert Sayer & Co., in London in 1792 or by Laurie & Whittle and published 12th May, 1794., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799. and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, Children, Hostages, Military camps, British, Mothers, and Prisoner exchanges
Before a tent with a throne inside, Tippoo Sahib's wife, mother of his two sons, kneels on a rug; she embraces her one son as the other son stands behind him. Tipu Sultan stands in the background with a woman servant(?).
Alternative Title:
Tippoo Sahib's two sons taking leave of their mother
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in lower left below image: 286., Numbered in lower right corner: (Plate 1)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799. and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, Children, Hostages, Mothers, and Prisoner exchanges
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana script, produced in England during the early fourteenth century
Description:
In English., The text is incomplete, ending at line 4902 of 5166 lines., One of the flyleaves has the name Thomas Redyng in a late sixteenth-century hand., Bought from Lord Kingsborough by Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl) in Dublin, Nov. 1, 1842., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt Derby crest.
A view of Havana harbor, with the HMS Orford at anchor, centre, other warships lying heads to sea; cannon and provisions being manhandled ashore. The beach is filled with troops and tents
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres based on a drawing made on the spot by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is engraved here "P.O.R. Sbridge"., Plate also issued with eleven other plates and four pages of text as part of: Britannia's triumph in the year 1762 : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, etc., etc. ... London : J. Bowles, 1766., and "Plate 7"--Lower right corner.
Publisher:
J. Bowles?
Subject (Geographic):
Cuba. and Havana (Cuba)
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Campaigns, Harbors, Naval warfare, Warships, and British
"Moro fortress under bombardment from three warships; return fire landing wide."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of His Majesty's Ship Dragon commanded by him, Cambridge Wm. Godfrey ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres made after an on-the-spot drawing by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is wrongly given here as "P.O.R. Sbridge"., "Plate 8"--Lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but bottom edge., and Plate also issued with eleven other plates and four pages of text as part of: Britannia's triumph in the year 1762 : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, etc., etc. ... London : J. Bowles, 1766.
