"View down London Wall, with All Hallows Church, built by George Dance junior; a carriage advancing up street just behind two men pulling a wheelbarrow"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Window mounted to 48 x 36 cm.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Text in Latin and German., In margin upper right: 8., In margin lower center: Cum Priv. Sac. Coes. Maj., 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 headings: Hospitals, Austria; Poorhouses.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Hospitals, City & town life, and Streets
A man in ragged clothes walks past a wall covered in advertisements, notices theatrical and musical performances; auctions; animal shows: Devil on two sticks; water closets; Wellington boots; beaver hats; excursions; temperance society meetings; "Jump Jim Crow"; For New York the fast sialing [...]; Madlle Duvernays, Mrs. Wood, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Text below title: To be read downwards.
Publisher:
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet St.
Biltmore Hotel, official city map of Oklahoma City
Description:
Date inferred from 1935 statistics on verso., Indexed., Photos, text, and ill. on verso., and BEIN 827 Ok4 1935: Ms. notes in red pencil to highlight oil fields.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma City (Okla.), Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City
"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a barred area or cellar, also raising her petticoats. A little girl (left) stands in the doorway. The legs of the ladies are eagerly inspected by male loungers. One man crouches at the back of the coach to peep through a quizzing-glass. The roadway on the right of the coach is crowded. Men with telescopes are indicated in the windows of the houses (right). Other spectators stand in the cellar or area looking upwards through the bars. The cover of a coal-hole in the pavement is pushed aside to show a profile. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials are incorporated into the design, etched within the escutcheon on the back of the coach., Date in imprint transcribed as "April 1st, 1793" in the British Museum catalogue; etched lines resembling a "7" are found beneath the superscript "st" but may not actually represent a digit., and Imprint continues: ... who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile, admitance [sic] 1 shg. N. folios of caracatures lent out.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
"View of Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, with two men in the pillory in the centre surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, on the right the equestrian statue of Charles I stands watching over the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 62., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 226.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Charing Cross (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
"View down Portland Place, looking north, the view unobscured by other buildings; a small crowd gathers to watch a man taunting a bear on the street to the left, a couple of carriages in street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, publisher and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
A fox runs away holding in its mouth the embroided bag with the Great Seal. Thurlow, in the Chancellor's robes leans out the window on the right crying, "stop thief." A reference to the theft of the Seal from the Chancellor's house on the eve of the dissolution of the Parliament, attributed to Charles Fox and his friends
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25, 1784 by J Wallis N 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Ormond Street., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Streets, Politics and government, Foxes, and Robberies
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe which runs down the adjacent building a black flood drips and streams across the pavement. From an (invisible) upper window hang ragged garments, dripping down the wall. Broken crockery and refuse lie against the edge of the pavement."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
"View looking across the south side of the churchyard from Paul's Chain to Watling Street, with part of the portico of the cathedral on the left, carriages wait around edge of yard; a sign on the edge of a building on the far right reads 'Pellatt & Green Glass and China Warehouse.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Attribution to Hornor and approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 52 cm.
