Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A landscape scene with a satyr reading beneath a single tree. The background consists of rolling hills and a large cloud in the sky. A banner at the bottom of the image reads "On bokes for to Rede I me Delyte" --Chaucer.
Subject (Name):
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 and Yale School of Medicine
“171. ̶ Madagascar. ̶ Au pays des Ravinala.” Three boys are shown high up in a palm tree. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Pour ‘l’Œuvre des Prêtres Malgaches’, 79, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris XVe. Ch. Post. 567-39 Paris”. There is on handwriting on the back.
"172. The big trees are the centers of village life in W. China. At Dsai Jia Tsang. Mr. & Mrs. Manly and one of our school teachers on the bridge. Only the trunk of the small tree shows in the photo." Villagers are shown gathered under the enormous canopy of a tree. People are seen on a bridge spanning a small lake or river.
"Tree of law in a frame decorated with a garland of leaves, surmounted by a portrait of Robert Price in an oval, wearing a long wig and judges' robes and bands, with banner lettered 'Legum Decus Patriae Que Is Erat'; to left and right, two female allegorical figures standing on pedestals; lettered in Latin on pedestals, banners and branches of tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Inutilis et sine fructu labor, non est legis, effectus
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0809.1492, Portrait of Robert Price based on that by Kneller; see British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold by Ph. Overton in Fleet Street and J. King in the Poultry, Printsellers entered in the Hall Book, London
"John Bull sits in a double pair of stocks, his ankles heavily shackled. His wrists are linked by a huge padlock inscribed Million £800 000 000 [National Debt]. He sits on bales of Taxes; to his back is tied a huge bundle of Last Wars Taxes. His clothes are tattered; three pockets hang inside out, inscribed To Let. At his side (left), and in profile to the right, kneels a noble Spaniard, in very theatrical dress, with trunk hose, cloak, and ruff. He has a spear from which hangs a pennant inscribed Libertas. He puts his hands together in a gesture of prayer: I come once again, and on my kneens [sic] to implore your Aid, we are indeed grateful for former Services, and beleive that you fought purely for Spain and not for yourselves--Save us from our pretended Friends they are worse then Enemies--Save us, and the World, from the destruction of Liberty--. John bites his thumbs despairingly; he answers: I pity you, but I can only give you advice, when you came to me before, I was a Strong Man, and free, but I am now exhausted in saving you, and destroying your great Enemy--See how I am fetter'd--! My Creditors enchain me--! look at my Debt and pity me!-- At his feet a heavy pair of leg-irons lies across many papers inscribed Debt and Taxes. He sits under an oak-tree; from a partly-withered bough hang his cartouche-box and bayonet-belt. In the middle distance (right) Louis XVIII sits astride a cannon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12797), on a gun-carriage drawn rapidly up a slope by the Tsar and the Emperor of Austria. Both wear uniform and crowns, that of the latter topped by a fool's cap. Both cry: War! War!! War! and blood!! Alexander holds a sword in one hand, a bayoneted musket in the other; Francis holds a sword and a pistol, against his shoulder is the shaft of a flag inscribed Holy Alliance. Louis XVIII leans back, flannelled legs extended, two pistols in his belt, a sword in one hand, a musket in the other. Before him on the cannon is a bowl of soup, &c. The Pope walks at his right, holding a string attached to his nose. The King: By the Powers I shall fall, and lose my Balance Stop!! Stop! I say don't pull so hard you'll rupture [your scored through] Eu rope, this is not suited to my Taste [scored through] Gout I am already crippled and cannot bear it Stop!!!-- The Pope, who wears his tiara and holds his crosier against his shoulder, answers: Fear not, I'll let you into Heaven, through the back door my dear Son. Keys hang from his neck. Behind the cannon runs the Devil pushing at the King's posterior with a trident; he says: They cannot go on without me so I bring up the rear!! Beside the cannon run tiny frogs in uniform with muskets, &c. A slightly bigger one holding a sword may represent Angoulême. Cannon fire at them from a fort on a hill."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
John Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with initials "A.J." added in lower right and the words "with Spain" added to speech bubble immediately to the right of the stocks in center of image. For an earlier state lacking these additions, see no. 14520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street & 74 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Public debt, Taxes, Trees, Rocks, Stocks (Punishment), Forts & fortifications, Cannons, Devil, and Frogs
Volume 2, page 87. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A girl sitting beside a spinning wheel outside a cottage, with expression of lament, a ship on the sea behind at right; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: Young Jemmy lov'd me well, & sought me for his bride, but saving a crown he had naething else beside; to mak' that crown a pund, my Jemmy gade to sea, and the crown & the pund were bath for me., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., and Mounted on page 87 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published 24th Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
