The water works, Centre Square, Philadelphia
1 print : etching ; 14 x 19 cm (plate), 22.2 x 29.4 cm (sheet) | Print shows an exterior view of the front entrance and the side facade of the pump house at Centre Square for the Philadelphia waterworks.
Contributor:
Blake, George E.
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Beating sugar-canes for a hog]
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 18.2 x 27.5 cm (sheet) | Print shows three men on horseback, carrying spears, waiting, as Natives systematically beat sugarcane with bamboo staffs and, with the aid of two dogs, drive a wild hog from cover past the waiting hunters. Also shown are two oxen yoked to a plow, fleeing for their own safety, and Natives…
Contributor:
Howitt, Samuel - Orme, Edward - Williamson, Thomas
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[The chase after a hog]
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 16.3 x 24.4 cm (plate), 18.6 x 27.9 cm (sheet) | Print shows men on horseback, carrying spears, chasing a wild hog through tall grasses. In the background, Natives are harvesting the grasses which they pile on a wagon or "hackerie". Also shown is a female hog with young hiding in a den beneath matted grass.
Contributor:
Howitt, Samuel - Orme, Edward - Williamson, Thomas
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[The dead hog]
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 16.3 x 24.4 cm (plate), 18.5 x 27.7 cm (sheet) | Print shows a dead wild hog at center, with two dogs nearby, lying on the ground, panting, and two men, one extracting the spear from the hog; an attendant holds the horse of one of the hunters, as porters arrive, one with a long pole,…
Contributor:
Howitt, Samuel - Orme, Edward - Williamson, Thomas
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[The hog at bay]
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 16.3 x 24.4 cm (plate), 18.7 x 27.7 cm (sheet) | Print shows men on horseback, carrying spears, and two dogs, chasing a wild hog through tall grasses. One of the dogs has caught the hog by the hind legs or rump. One horse has fallen, its rider on the ground, and another horse is spooked…
Contributor:
Howitt, Samuel - Orme, Edward - Williamson, Thomas
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Hog-hunters meeting by surprise a tigress and her cubs]
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 17.6 x 26.2 cm (sheet) | Print shows four men on horseback, carrying spears, chasing a wild hog and suddenly coming upon a tigress and her cubs in tall grass; in the background, a caravan with camels and elephants passes to the right.
Contributor:
Howitt, Samuel - Orme, Edward - Williamson, Thomas
Saint Marie penitent
1 print : engraving ; plate 33.7 x 48.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 54.7 cm. | Print shows Saint Mary, living as a hermit, kneeling in prayer at the opening to a cave in the hillside of a mountain covered in trees with a stream nearby; sick or disabled persons, hoping for a cure, are being helped along a path leading up to…
Contributor:
Champaigne, Philippe De - Godefroy, François - Marchais, Pierre Antoine
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
General Washington
1 print : stipple engraving ; sheet 21 x 12.5 cm. | Print shows George Washington, bust portrait, facing slightly left, in oval, from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Contributor:
Stuart, Gilbert - Heath, James
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
In crowds the ladies ran, all wish'd to see and touch the tawny man
Blind Sam, the royal Indian's visit and reception at Philadelphia
1 print : engraving ; plate 13 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 14.3 x 21.5 cm. | Print shows a tall Native, missing one eye, standing with five women and two men on a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also a cluster of women and a few men at the entrance to a building behind them. In the background, a group of boys taunt a…
Contributor:
Leney, William Satchwell - Tisdale, Elkanah - Alsop, Richard
Date:1807-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Frontispiece
1 print : engraving ; sheet 15.3 x 9.5 cm. | Print shows a female figure representing "History" directing George Washington, Nathanael Greene, and Alexander Hamilton up a steep mountain roadway toward the Temple of Fame.