Leaf 19r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, wearing a hooded cloak and carrying a basket, stands in a city square on a moonlight night. Behind her to the left, Grassmarket and on the right, Edinburgh Castle
Alternative Title:
My pease and beans wha'll buy frae me ... and Castle, from the Grass Market
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):
Grassmarket (Edinburgh, Scotland),, Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Vegetables, Baskets, Capes (Clothing), Markets, and Castles & palaces
Title etched below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two lines of text following title: This silly innovation which they've borrow'd from the Turks ..., For a reversed version of this design published in Dublin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.872., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1816 -- Picture: Bazaar in Baghdad, enslaved persons., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Sidebotham, 96 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Dandies, Markets, Slave trade, Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
A scene of a busy market in the West Indies with enslaved, free Africans, and white mingling amongst the vendors: The Black vendors are seated on the ground with their wares displayed around them, including produce (mellons, pineapples, bananas, etc.), livestock (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.); one man (left) is holding a lizard (iguana?); a little boy holds a bird on his finger. One woman carries her chickens and a piglet in a basket balanced on her head. Customers, both Black and mixed-race, mingle with vendors. White women with umbrellas and white men wearing hats walk among the vendors; a horse and carriage and buildings are in the background
Description:
Title from text below image., Based on a 1806 etching with the title: Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua. Engraved by Cordon, Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. See National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., Motte started publishing in 1818 in Paris, opened a branch in London in 1830, and moved to 70 St. Martin's Lane in 1831. See British Museum online catalogue., "From an original drawing taken in 1806."--Lower left, below design., After W.E. Beastall and the engraving by Cardon. Cf. Negroes Sunday market at Antigua / engraved by Cardon. Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., and Imprint partially burnished and illegible.
Publisher:
Printed by Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Animals, Farm produce, Markets, Poultry, and Slave trade
"View looking across Covent Garden piazza, the market in progress, St Paul's Church on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Covent Garden
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck faceing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3050., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 42 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Covent Garden.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Markets, Churches, Coaches & carriages, Carts & wagons, and Sedan chairs
publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 20, 1751.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 20+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of Covent Garden looking across the piazza with the market in progress, St Paul's Church on the left, a column in the centre"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe du Couvent Jardin à̀ Londres
Description:
Titles from text below image, in English and French., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Manuscript indenture, on parchment, detailing an agreement between the Prior and canons of the Augustinian priory of Bromehill on the one part and the Mayor, burgesses, merchants and residents of the town of Thetford on the other part. The indenture concerns the rights to income from the annual Prior's fair at Bromehill, including rights to the toll, stallage and pickage fees
Description:
In Latin., Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes., Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin., Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented., Script: secretary script., and With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., Norfolk (England), and Thetford (England)
Subject (Name):
Augustinians and Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fairs, Manuscripts, Medieval, Markets, and Monasteries and state
"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.8 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 34 cm., and Imperfect; aquatintist J. Bluck's name has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Calendarium astrologicum and Almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 10 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Griffin for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Markets, Astrology, Ephemerides, and Almanacs, English
