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Box 4 Folder 2
BM unidentified and out of scope; 1736-1843 and undated
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BM Unidentified 1 Engraving featuring an exterior scene. To the left are four men and a decorative tent; in the foreground is a lion being stood on by a king [likely the King of France]. To the right is a Frenchman with high boots pulling two crowned men by the nose with hooks; the crowned men are carrying a net with three fish inside. To the right are three Englishmen holding “The Definitive Treaty” and beside them is a weeping Britannia. In the distance is a partially destroyed fort and a French ship on the sea. Beneath is engraved text which is signed “An Abstract of a Letter from the Q_ of H_” |
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BM Unidentified 2 Engraving which features an interior scene of two men in a room with fine wood paneling; mounted on the walls to the left and right are two framed paintings or prints of marine scenes. In the center is a marine print, framed, on a table with a draped tablecloth. The framed images features several ships on the sea with flags and ships. Both men in the room gesture towards the image, are well-dressed, and have their hats in their hands. Title origin is unknown; transcribed on outer folder. |
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BM Unidentified 3 Engraving with a scene in the middle featuring allegorical figures with wings surrounding a large central globe which is inscribed with Greek characters. In the center of the allegorical figures is a man with sheaf of wheat and a large sickle. Above him is a woman with a harp and scale, her arm resting on the globe; there are several cherubs in the sky, one is pulling the wings off a bat; there are also several flying bare-chested women; Father Time pulls a scythe from a globe. To the left are the figures of Europe and Asia; Asia is carrying a smoking urn and Europe is dressed in full armor and is piling treasures and Christian relics on a base which has a clock on the front face. To the right are the figures of America draped in feathers and jewelry, her arm extended over the head of an alligator. Behind her is the figure of Africa, bare-chested and holding what appears to be an elephant tusk. |
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BM Unidentified 4 Aquatint featuring an allegorical scene. To the right is a woman labeled as “la Victoire terassant les rebelles” standing atop three men labeled “la Fay” [Lafayette?] “Roch….” and “Luck”; the woman is placing a laurel wreath on a statue with several medallions on its face as well as French text. To the left is a bank of clouds and a beach with an ocean; the sun is setting in the distance. On the clouds is a woman wearing robes and cradling a caduceus and pouring a cornucopia of coins onto a group of people labeled as “le Peuple”; textual key beneath is in French. |
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BM Unidentified 5 Engraving with letter-pressed German text beneath. Image features numerous people involved in separate actions. To the right are two people pulling the boots off of a man who is seated on a raised chair. He is labeled “G.R” and is saying “O Nord. Nord”; to the left is a man riding atop a horse with a whip in his hand. On his chest is a sign reading “L. Nord. King from London”. To the far left are three young men kneeling before a bust of Oliver Cromwell. In the clouds is an allegorical representation of a woman, possibly Justice, holding bent arrows and a pair of scales. |
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BM Unidentified 6 Engraving of an interior and exterior scene. In the exterior scene two men stand outside a palace, [perhaps St. James’s Palace]; one is standing in a doorway and pointing towards a document labeled “To the Secretary” and stating “You Shall be a Major Capt Mac” [perhaps William Macarmick?]. The man before him is holding his hat and stating “My L. Duk. I took Cape Breton myself”; to the right are six men seated at a table which has documents, coins and an inkwell on it. The men appear to be members of the ministry. In front of the table is a man kneeling, his hat before him and stating “Save me [Jown?] I’m a Highland Villain”. Behind the table mounted on the wall is the British Coat of Arms. |
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BM Unidentified 7 Engraving backed with cardstock. Image features Britannia to the right seated with her shield and spear tucked behind her; she is extending an olive branch towards four standing figures to the left. They are America, Spain, France and a Holland with his hands in his pockets. Britannia is seated atop of numerous treasures and riches; behind her is a column draped in fabric and in the distance is a ship with several masts and sails. Note: an "Explanation of the Frontispiece" appears on [ii] of the January 1782 issue of the Westminster Magazine. AAS Call No.: PRD. |
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BM Unidentified 8 Hand colored engravings which feature bust and full-length portraits of generals and politicians with text beneath and a stamp resembling a script “S” enclosed in a circle. Included are “La Conte de Skelburne [Shelburne] Secretaire detat Cherche A debrouiller la pouvre angleterre de ses mauvaises affaires” with an image of a man reading a copy of “Affaires de la grande Bretagne” with spectacles and his hair tied back. Three images mounted on a piece of cardstock. They include “L Chev. Clinton” with a profile of a man in a gold and orange coat looking right his hair tied back and a small upturned nose. “Rodney” with a portrait of a man looking at the viewer with a red coat, large eyes, a flat head and large lips and “Le Gal Vaughan” with an image of a thin man in military uniform with a long face, large wide eyes and several ringlets. Three additional caricatures mounted on an additional piece of cardstock of full-length portraits of three men. “Le Lord Stormond” features a stout man in a red coat with his hands in his pockets facing right. “Stephend” with an image of a thin man wearing a gold and orange coat with his hands in his pockets facing left and “Hoode” with an image of a man with a large head and thin body reaching outwards towards smoke and flames. Final sheet features four caricatures mounted on cardstock. They include “Le honorable Michel White Lieutenant gouverneur” with an image of a man in military uniform weeping, his head in his hands; “Lord Cambden” with an image of a judge with a wig, robes and a grotesque chin and nose; “Lord George Germain” with a bust portrait of aman looking left of a man with a hook nose, sunken eyes and a large chin and “Barington fait La grimace a L’Admiral Biron de Lavoir Laisse Battre au Combat de la grenade en 1779” with a bust portrait of a man looking right, his hand clenched in a fist; he has very large lips and a crooked flat nose. |
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BM Unidentified 9 Engraving featuring an exterior allegorical scene of the four continents in front of a columned structure; to the right is a seated Britannia with shield, triton and caduceus cradled in her arm. To the left are four women who are presenting her with items. A seated dark-skinned woman is bare-chested and hands her an elephant tusk [likely Africa]; a woman wearing a small crown bears a cornucopia [likely Europe], one woman has an open box of jewels and is barefoot [likely Asia] and a fourth who is also bare-chested presents her with a husk from corn [likely America]. In the foreground are barrels and tied parcels as well as a seated male [likely Neptune]. In the distance are ships with sails and masts. Text at the bottom is attributed to “Gay, Vol: II. Fable VIII. To his Native Country.” At the top is engraved “Dictionary of Trade & Commerce” [either from Richard Rolt’s or Thomas Mortimer’s] and “To face the title.” |
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BM Unidentified 10 Engraving featuring three animals attacking a fourth one in the center; the engraving is compiled of a circle surrounded by a square. The four figures are identified by busts on the four corners as “Le France” [France] “L’Espagne” [Spain] “L’Amerique” [America] and “L’Angleterre” [England]. The three attacking animals are a rooster, a lion and a snake; the animal being attacked is a tiger or cougar. Engraved text beneath reads “Du Sein de la tyrannie naquit l’independence M.A. Voltaire.” |
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BM Unidentified 11 Hand colored engraving featuring a woman with a crown to the right holding a lit torch and a bundle of sticks of wheat labeled “pickled by John Bull”. The rays emitting from the lit torch which is identified as “Virtue & Innocence” casts light reading “False, Hypocritical, Faithless, and Villains” onto four smaller male figures. Each figure has speech bubbles. To the left one stands with a rope around his neck ready to throw the rope over a light post. Another one points an item at his chest; a third leaves with a large rolled up document labeled “Dirty [] ork” and a fourth is the muscular backside of a king in a crown with his arms outstretched and a document labeled “Message to the Ho” protruding from his pocket. The queen is standing atop two items; a bag labeled “Green Bag Extraordinary Fabricated Papers” and a paper labeled “A Bribe of 50,000 to resign my title and keep away” in the distance are four figures raising their hats in celebration. A fifth figure is standing with his hand to his chest stating “Parliament were not call’d or to become the accusers of Her M-Y I as one individual, so help me God, will never place myself in that situation.” |
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BM Unidentified 12 Aquatint etching which features a line-up of men in front of a Hotel and building identified as “Capot Tailleur”; beneath is explanatory text. From left to right the figures are identified as “Barnaby Bray” “Jack Topham” “Jonathan W Doubkin” “Mr Pennington” “another particularly Cool Landlord” “Major Grimstone” “Judges charge to a Jury” “Mrs. Mangle Wuzle” “Colonel Hiram Peglar” “Mr. O’Sullivan” “Mr. Raventop” “Mon. Capot” and “Agamemnon”; the image are caricatures of men in various clothing, and postures. Three of them wear large wide brimmed hats, one is dressed as a woman, one examines a pocket watch, one holds his head in his hands, one has a gun over his shoulder, one stands in robes at a table draped with cloth with arms folded, one has an apron and carries a bottle of liquid and one is a stout African man in sailor’s dress playing the fiddle. Behind the line-up is a horse pulling a sleigh. |
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BM Unidentified 13 Hand colored engraving which features two distinct and divided scenes. To the left are two men conversing. Both have on high top hats and are well-dressed. To the left is a man with an earring, glasses and a fashionable coat and boots; he is speaking with an effeminate looking man in a striped shirt with a green coat; his pants are tight and he is wearing a pinky ring. Above them is engraved text of a conversation between “M Alphonse de B-” and “M. Hercule de C-”. Image to the right also features two men conversing. They are identified as “Brown” and “Smith”; these men are more plainly dressed and carry umbrellas. One to the left has a short top hat on, sideburns and a gruff look on his face. He is wearing riding gear and boots. Man to the left is wearing a brown coat, blue pants and has an handkerchief in his pocket. Unidentified artist mark appears in the lower left of a man leaning on a cane and text “Esp.” |
BM Unidentified 14 Hand-colored engraving featuring an exterior scene of a man carrying a single small bundle and his family mounted on his back towards a ship to the right. The man is poorly dressed, has one shoe and a worn hat. Skipping in front of him is a thin dog carrying an umbrella. On his back are three women; his wife in a dress and bonnet nursing a young girl and an additional barefooted child in a green dress grabbing onto the neck of the mother. The ship they are headed towards is labeled “For Canada”; behind them are cliffs [perhaps of Dover] with a flag atop. Unidentified artist mark appears in the lower left of the image. |
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BM Unidentified 15 Engraving which features an interior domestic scene. There are three stout figures seated around a table. To the left is a large man saying “O! all a mode! All a mode! [à la mode]” while he gestures towards an equally large female to the right pouring tea from a teapot at a table; while pouring she is missing the teacups. She states “Lord, my dear! The French folks have quite transmogrified you. What, is that a French collar? Why it sticks out like two large horns. And they’ve stuck a sugar loaf on your head – what have they been doing with your small clothes? And where’s your wig my dear?” a third standing figure of a woman leaning against a chair stating “All a mode! All a mode! Why papa you seem to have forgot all your English. You’ll have all the customers take you for a French Monsieur” to the left is a cross-looking dog peering from under the legs of a table. |
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BM Unidentified 16 Lithograph print featuring an exterior scene where a stout man dressed in dark clothing to the right is grabbing the collar of a second man to the left using the hooked end of his umbrella. The umbrella is labeled “Caustle Wit”. The second man is holding onto the pole of a light post which is labeled “Repudiation of Common honesty.” He is looking behind him with a worried face. Protruding from his pocket is a slip of paper labeled “Pensilvanian Loan”. Image is labeled in the lower left “HB”. |
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