Print shows a view of Davenport, Iowa, and the Mississippi river from Illinois; top half of image is sky; low hills with buildings; four paddle steamers on river, including the Davenport, the Ben Bolt, and the Wing and Wing; active factories on far ba...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc29 856gi: On sheet 53 x 73 cm.
Publisher:
J.H. Bufford's Lith
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River and Davenport (Iowa)
Subject (Name):
Davenport (Steamboat), Wing and Wing (Steamboat), and Ben Bolt (Steamboat)
Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
Interior of the fore-cabin of a passenger steamboat, with numerous men and women (and one boy) seen either sitting at tables or standing around; many of the passengers are drinking or smoking. Three musicians play instruments near the center of the de...
Alternative Title:
Sunday in the fore-cabin of Gravesend steamer Meteor. The return to London, 6 P.M.
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
G.W. Kent and Co.
Subject (Topic):
Steamboats, Passengers, Eating & drinking, Smoking, Musical instruments, and Windows
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"King and Queen on two giants' shoulders crossing the Thames; common people in small boats bothered by the waves sended up by the giants."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royalty and loyalty making gigantic strides
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Fictitious characters), Wading, Rowboats, and Steamboats
"Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes...
Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two Thames watermen stand on the river bank gaping at the explosion of a steam packet-boat, whose stern is inscribed 'For Richmond'. Wreckage flies into the air carrying with it a number of passengers, men and women, who are flung about in a dense cl...
