Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing 72 pages of medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas. Contents include many medical recipes, such as traditional herbal washes, broths, salves, oils and pills for specific ailments, including bald...
Description:
Robert Paston, first Earl of Yarmouth (1631-1683), English politician, collector of art, books, and curios, and scientist. One of the Original Fellows of the Royal Society, he conducted alchemical experiments with Thomas Henshaw and studied the medica...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 and Yarmouth, Robert Paston, Earl of, 1631-1683.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Alchemy, Chemistry, Cooking, English, Health, Iatrophysical school, Medicine, Medicine, Popular, Recipes, Traditional medicine, Workshop recipes, Early works to 1800, and Intellectual life
Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of a four part summa of seventeeth-century science and philosophy. The introduction discusses formal argumentation and syllogisms. The four formal parts draw heavily upon Aristotelian concepts as develope...
Description:
Gabriel Thibauld was a theologian and member of the Order of Minims in mid-seventeenth century France.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Thibauld, Gabriel., Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274, and Minims (Religious order)
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Ethics, Learning and scholarship, Logic, Physics, and Scholasticism
Pitt dressed in a Elizabethan-style costume, with a large feathered hat on his head, faces the viewer. He gesters with his left hand and holds a stick in his right
Alternative Title:
Honorable Spruce Billy Beau prime minister of Lilliput
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20 1791 by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
"Satire on the end of Lord Rockingham's administration shown as a dance at court. The verses below describe the protagonists who have been numbered in pen and ink: in the centre, Princess Augusta (1) dances with Lord Bute (2) their joined hands holdin...
Alternative Title:
New country dance as danced at Court July the 30th 1766
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Murray, Fanny, 1729-1778, and Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Britannia (Symbolic character), Alcoholic beverages, Brooms & brushes, Crutches, Devil, Eyeglasses, Prostitutes, Symbols, Weather vanes, and Witches
Hogarth is shown fleeing from a village, his hat flying off as a scolding woman at his side points to cow horns that appear over his head. The horns are numbered “1”, a reference to a table below to Hogarth's prints "Four times the day". A chimney swe...
Alternative Title:
Painters march from Finchley
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Artists, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Dogs, Livestock, Milkwomen, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Water pumps
Hogarth is shown fleeing from a village, his hat flying off as a scolding woman at his side points to cow horns that appear over his head. The horns are numbered “1”, a reference to a table below to Hogarth's prints "Four times the day". A chimney swe...
Alternative Title:
Painters march from Finchley
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Artists, Chimney sweeps, Crowds, Dogs, Livestock, Milkwomen, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Water pumps
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and a...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
Manuscript text of twelve letters from Watkins to his father, Pennoyre Watkins, describing his travels in the Low Countries, France, Spain and Switzerland in 1787. The manuscript contains corrections, addenda and several notes for a printer, and is ...
Description:
Title from front cover (repeated on first page as "title page").
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, France, Spain, and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Pocock, George., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, and Watkins, Pennoyre.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
SH Contents W218 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 52
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a ...
Alternative Title:
Fête champêtre
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
