Walker, James, approximately 1748-approximately 1822, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Holy Family resting during the Flight into Egypt; St Joseph standing beside the donkey, drawing his cloak around him, the Virgin laying the infant Jesus on a rock, holding the edge of His garment in right hand, gesturing with the other, two cheru...
Alternative Title:
Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in Russian and English.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, as the act directs by Jas. Walker and W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair and R. Blamire, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Family, Biblical events, Donkeys, and Putti
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false p...
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
As part of the seduction of the wife of his Portuguese neighbor, Zelcuo meets their child while his nurse takes him to a secluded shady seat and pretends to be moved by his beauty
The young Zeluco with a defiant look on his face, crushes his pet bird in his right hand; a bird cage sits on a table to his left, its door standing open. To his right, his tutor looks back at him in horror
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore about to be executed in the courtyard of the castle. On the left, Theodore kneels down before the friar Jerome to pray, his shirt slipping down below his lef...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Courtyards, Colonnades, Executions, Prayer, and Helmets
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; a young woman seated on a pedestal, touching a lyre on a table with her left hand, holding a quill pen in her right, turned and looking towards a putto who stands behind her; on the right, Cupid seated on flo...
