A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line., Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):
Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Owls, Quacks, and Demons
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting the black and orange Etruscan cup owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 34 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's places of residence., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber shops, interior; Plasters; Barber surgeons & surgery; Chiropody.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbershops, Podiatry, Medical offices, Monkeys, Barbering, Barbers, Cats, Medical tools & equipment, Owls, and Arm slings
An angel with a crown of flowers on her head holds two sleeping babies in her arms as she flies to the left. The sky is drawn with a crescent moon, clouds, stars, two bats, and an owl. Below her, a rural scene with cows sleeping to right and a boy (a shepherd?) to the left, who also sleeps, his arms resting against a rock out-cropping. In the background, a man and woman walk toward a cottage, the man holding a torch to light the way. In the distance on a hill is a walled city, with smoke pouring from the building on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Bats, Cattle, Infants, Owls, Rural life, and Sleeping
An illlustration for Book 3, Chapter 2 in which the old innkeeper's wife (wearing spectacles) attends to Quixote's wounds; the daugher stands to the left with medicines in her hand. The torch is being held by Maritornes. An owl sits on a rafter above the bed. Quixote's armor hangs an a hook above his head. Sancho stands on the right his left arm on his right shoulder
Description:
Title from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Page 313. Don Quixote. Pl. 4."--Above image., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 95.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Daughters, Eyeglasses, Mothers, Nursing, Owls, and Wounds & injuries
An illlustration for Book 3, Chapter 2 in which the old innkeeper's wife (wearing spectacles) attends to Quixote's wounds; the daugher stands to the left with medicines in her hand. The torch is being held by Maritornes. An owl sits on a rafter above the bed. Quixote's armor hangs an a hook above his head. Sancho stands on the right his left arm on his right shoulder
Description:
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Vol. I. p. 80."--Below image, lower left., and Mounted on page 86, volume 1.
Publisher:
Robert Dodsley?
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Daughters, Eyeglasses, Mothers, Nursing, Owls, and Wounds & injuries
A mock coat of arms, perhaps for George IV, that possibly served as the tailpiece or other illustration to a verse-satire on the trial of Queen Caroline. The shield is vase-shaped and includes a mug of beer at center, tents and cannons on either side of the mug, a settee below the mug, three ships at top, scales of justice with "vice" outweighing "virtue" below the ships, and a ram at bottom. Surmounting the shield is a donkey with a owl on its back, the owl wearing a tall conical hat; the donkey stands upon a "log", a volume with "bill" on its spine, a chess board, playing cards, sheets of paper labeled "address", and a cross above which "liturgy petition" is written. Plants are seen on either side of shield; below the shield are banners in which the Latin phrases "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um" are written
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and publication information from potentially related prints that were published by Humphrey and are attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue. See nos. 13948-13972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Possibly a plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 12 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted with eight sheets of letterpress text, for letters R-Z, meant to face the corresponding plates in bound copies of Horrida bella.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Books, Playing cards, Board games, Scales, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, Cannons, Ships, Sheep, and Couches
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Printmaker is also known as Pieter van der Heyden., Print depicts the "Cure of folly," removing stones from the head., Text in French and Dutch., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Folly; Stone (in the head).
Publisher:
Ioan Galle excudit
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill, Mental illness, Witches, Knives, Rocks, Surgery, Traditional medicine, Mentally ill persons, Violoncellos, Crutches, Water mills, Spectators, Eggs, and Owls
