"A burlesqued tailor with a huge paunch and small legs stands in profile to the left, facing a gale and rain, encumbered with a little girl clinging to his neck, and by large roll of cloth under the right arm; he tries to open his umbrella, having placed his cane between his legs; tied to the handle in a handkerchief are books of patterns, which are blowing away, like his wig, hat, and the child's bonnet; his coat, with tape-measure, streams behind him ..." (Source: George)
Alternative Title:
Embarras des richesses
Description:
Title from caption below image., Anchor symbol is the artist's mark of Frederick Marryat., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Drawn from the life on the Cliff Brighton., Five lines of verse from Byron's Bride of Abydos inscribed below title: Through rising gale and breaking foam and shrieking sea birds warned him home ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base., Script: Written in small neat italic., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case; stubs of two green ties.
Manuscript fragment on paper (unidentified watermark) of outline drawings of saints and prophets and 2 scenes from the New Testament, from a pattern book, with script headings
Description:
In Arabic. and Mounted between glass.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pattern books
