"Apollo alighting with a torch in his right hand, wings spread, gesturing with his left hand towards the arts and sciences, allegoriacal figures grouped on the right with Sculpture, leaning on a bas-relief of George III, Painting and Architecture in the foreground and a figure on the right with a globe, compass and other navigational tools; in an oval; after West."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Publish'd ... Octr. 1, 1789, by B. West ..., State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
"Libyan Sibyl; facing front, seated, with a turban on head, holding a book open with her left hand, resting her right elbow on a closed book on a table, the book lettered with "Sibilla Libia"; after Guercino."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration number: S,5.55.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1580]
Call Number:
Print00918
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., From: The Loves, Rages, and Jealousies of Juno., Trimmed within plate mark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Mythology, Births, Midwives, Infants, Mothers, and Prayer
Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude, 1710?-1771?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
Drawer 755.00.00.25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration number: U,8.50., Printmakers from later state in the British Museum with the engravers' names and a publication line added., Text following subtitle: Described in Felibien, vol. 2d, p. 440., Quotation at bottom of plate: Servatur exemplar in aedibus praenobilis Viri Gulielmi Morris, Equitis Aurati., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Leaf 38 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 38. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue