Three fashionably dressed young woman are shown full-length for three different angles, all astride bicycles
Description:
Title from caption below image., Caption below image, text corresponds with figures: Side front & back., Eight lines of descriptive text in letterpress below plate mark: This machine is an ingenious apology for the ladies : it possesses equal power with the gentleman's, will turn as short, and is not so libable to upset, having the perch below instead of above ... Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand., "Price one shillg.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published May 12th, 1819 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand and Printed by L. Harrison, 373 Strand
A young woman leans on a large terrestrial globe as she reads a manuscript. Behind her is a bust displayed on a table near a wall lined with well-stocked bookshelves
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by Horace Walpole on label on former mount: "Elias Martin fec. 1771 a Swede came over in 1768, son of a cabinet maker.", Inscribed on label on former mount by a later hand: "Elias Martin 1771 from the Strawberry Hill Collection bought at the sale 1842.", Formerly hung in the "red bed chamber" at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, home of Horace Walpole. Sold at the 1842 London sale as one of the "Four humourous drawings, washed, perfectly unique of their kind, by Elias Martin.", and One of the companion paintings is also in the Lewis Walpole Library. See Martin's "The music room."
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Reading, Young women, Private libraries, Sculpture, and Globes
Nelson Slater and Henrietta Slater McIntire papers
Container / Volume:
Folder 6
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Henrietta Slater McIntire (daughter of Nelson and Emily Slater) was born in California in 1851. She graduated from the State Normal School in San Francisco in 1868, and the San Francisco high school in 1872.