"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
publish'd according to act of Parliament, December 10, 1746.
Call Number:
746.12.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Orator Henley preaching in his chapel in Newport Market which crowded with listeners, male and female intermingled, some standing, some seated in pews, and others in a gallery; in the foreground stands a drover with his dog. Henley to the left wearin...
Alternative Title:
Popish incendiary, Brazen faced orator, and Temple of Rebellion
Paine (head and shoulders only visible) dangles on a noose from a lamp-bracket, the post of which is inscribed 'Rights of This Man'. The head of Orléans with the horns of a devil looks down at Paine from behind the post, which he clutches with his ta...
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793
Inside a church, Burke and Sheridan, in mourning clothes, cry next to the tomb on which rest the bodies of Lord North and Charles Fox, with a fox's head. Fox's eye is open and alert, his tongue hanging from the mouth. Above their heads, a crossbeam re...
Alternative Title:
Tombs of the worthies
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 27, 1784, as the act directs, by M. Smith & sold at No. 46, in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725., and Tyler, Wat, -1381.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Nooses, and Mourning clothing & dress
Ferdinand VII, seated on a throne on a low platform inscribed "TIRANIA", is flanked by two advisers, the Devil on the left and a friar on the right. At the friar's feet, in the foreground, a demon burns newspapers with a firebrand. Tortures of the Inq...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Washington
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
