"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a sm...
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-...
Description:
In Latin and Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
"A young woman shown half-length to right with her back to the viewer, wearing a spotted neckerchief and a straw hat over her cap, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, holding a basket over her arm and holding up three fruits; in an oval."--B...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Women, Baskets, Fruit, Peddlers, and Food vendors
“Missie van de Congregatie der Ursulinen van Thildonck (Engelsch Indië). ̶ Christene Indische vrouw, te Thildonck verblijvende in Februari 1924; weduwe van een der catechisten van den vermaarden Pater Lievens S. J.” The Christian widow of a catech...
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyon...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Manuscript, in the hand of John Abbott, of some of the "accounts of Divine occurrences" written by his wife Ann. Topics include her first religious awakenings, temptations, and conversion; experiences of the Spirit at Quaker meetings; her struggles wi...
Description:
Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Christian life, Conduct of life, Quakers, Spiritual biography, Women, Religious life, and Religious life and customs
Bell, Edward, active 18th century-19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1796]
Call Number:
796.00.00.63++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionable young women sit in a room with green walls and an elaborate carpet, both looking away, lost in thought. Each woman is careful not to catch the eye of the other. On the tables next to each woman are a single rose and, on the opposite si...
Alternative Title:
Rival friends
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 1796, by J. Grozer, No. 8 Castle Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Topic):
Women, Interiors, Floor coverings, Dogs, and Competition (Psychology)
