Contributor:
Grandville, J. J. - Desperret, Auguste
Date:1833-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
North east view of Westminster Abbey
1 print : aquatint, hand-colored ; 40.6 x 51.8 cm (sheet) | Print shows a street view of the northeast side of Westminster Abbey, with pedestrians on the promenade in the foreground.
Contributor:
Ackermann and Co.
Date:1836-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
A frontispiece for a journal
1 print : lithograph ; 30.3 x 24.5 cm (sheet) | Print shows a beggar maid (Fanny Kemble, who married Pierce in 1834 and retired from the stage) holding play-bill, "beggar's petition," and a sheet of paper that states "Pity kind Yankees, friends to Humanity, give me a rich husband and I will be gone." She confronts a fancily dressed woman, holding a paper…
Contributor:
Akin, James
Date:1835-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 22.3 x 15 cm. | An impassioned attack on cruelty in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary. Akin presents a life-size, detailed rendering of an iron gag, "Locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a Convict from Lancaster County, sentenced to the Cells for Manslaughter; who Died with it in his mouth..." Maccumsey's death, attributed to the iron gag, figured prominently…
The Colonel electioneering. How to get a vote, or going fixed for the purpose
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; 30.3 x 39.4 cm (sheet) | Print shows a man at center, assumed to be Davy Crockett, standing on a busy commercial street, offering one man a drink and another man tobacco, while campaigning for political office. Two dogs have stopped to observe. Includes lengthy text of an interview between "B" and the "Col." wherein Crockett…
Piazza de popolo
1 print : lithograph ; 29.6 x 39.5 cm (sheet) | Print shows a view of the plaza with an Egyptian obelisk on the left with lion fountains at the corners, a monumental arch on the far left, Pincio in the distance at right center, and a building with columns topped with a statue, possibly one of the two churches on the plaza at…
Bataille de Watignies, 16 Octobre 1793
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate 29.1 x 43.1 cm, on sheet 31.2 x 45.8 cm. | Print shows French, Austrian, and Dutch armies clashing on a battlefield with village buildings on the left and right, and the evacuation of wounded taking place in the foreground.
Contributor:
Lami, Eugène Louis - Gavard, Charles
Portraits of the seven presidents of the U.S.
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 29.6 x 32.2 cm. | An emblematic print with hidden portraits of the Presidents, from Washington through Jackson. In the center is a small land mass, surrounded on three sides by water and strewn with barrels, anchors, bales, a cornucopia, rudder, scythe, fasces, cannon, and a scroll "Declaration of Rights." On the left is a…