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Napoleon, nursing his infant, receives the news of the defeat of the French by Wellington at Masséna. Aquatint, 1811.
Date: 1 May 1811Reference: 38439i- Pictures
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A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 664647i- Books
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Histoire secrette de la reine Zarah, ou la Duchesse de Marlborough démasquée. Traduite de l'original anglois.
Browne, Joseph, 1646?-1678.Date: M.DCC.XI. [1711]- Pictures
A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
Date: publish'd as the Act directs April 6 1798Reference: 12185i- Books
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A new a bridgment of the rules of French prosodia, according to bussier's observations. Shewing I. The nature and quantity of heroic verses. II. The difference between masculine and feminine verses. III. The nature of the cesura. IV. Of the mutual relation verses bear to each other. V. Of the epigram, madrigal, and sonnet. VI. Odes and rondeaux & c. to which is added, the fourth satire of Mr. Boileau despreaux, addressed to Mr. Moliere. By Terence Ryley, teacher of French in the University of Oxford.
Ryley, Terence.Date: Printed in the year, 1756- Books
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Cymbalum mundi. Or, satyrical dialogues upon several subjects, by Bonaventure des Perriers, Valet-de-Chambre to Margaret de Valois, Queen of Navarre. To which is prefix'd a letter containing the history, apology, &c. of that work. By Prosper Marchand. Done into English from the French.
Des Périers, Bonaventure, 1500?-1544?.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, &c. in Greece, and one of the princes who conducted the siege of Troy. Complete in twenty-four books. Originally written in French, not only for the Use and Instruction of the Dauphin of France, to guard him, in an allegorical Way, against forming his Conduct after the bad Example of his Grandfather Louis XIV. but also to promote the Happiness of Mankind in general; by Francis Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Late Archbishop of Cambray, in the French Netherlands. Now newly translated fro the best Paris and other editions, by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Author of the New Abridgment of the Roman History-of the Complete Abridgment of the Grecian History-And of the New Universal Story-Teller, or Modern Picture of Human Life; being an approved Collection of original and select Pieces in Prose and Verse. - Price 3s. each bound. To which are added, the life of the original author; the Heads and Arguments of each Book at Large; and a great Variety of Notes, Historical, Critical, Explanatory, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Philological, Satirical, and Illustrative: Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and Remarks, with Allusions to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, particularly to the Histories of England and France:-A Work of the first Reputation, replete with Maxinis of Human Prudence, and including the most persect System of Morality ever presented to the World, displaying to all Descriptions of Persons the Horrors of Vice, and the Charms of Virtue, in the most forcible Manner. The Mysteries of the wisest and best Politics are here developed: the inordinate Passions are depicted as a Yoke equally disgraceful and fatal; while the Moral Duties appear with all the Attractions of Ease and Beauty. The reasoning is just, the precepts are important. It is a Work which Genius and Learning have dedicated to Virtue: it at once captivates the Imagination, informs the Understanding, and regulates the Will. This valuable Book teaches us to make Morality an Religion our Guide in good, as well as in adverse Fortune; never to forget the Love we owe our Paretnts and our Courntry. It forms our Minds for a king, a Citizen, a feather, a mother, a Master, a Gentleman, a Tradesman, a Servant, and even a Slave, if such should be our Lot; and, in short, teaches us to act properly in all the vaious Spheres of Life. Mentor (under which Character is meant Minerva) in his Counsels to Telemachus, must make us just, humane, patient, sincere, discret, and modest. He never speaks but he places, engages, moves and persuades. We cannot attend to him but with Admiration; and, in Proportion as we admire, we cannot help loving his Advice, which is entertaining as well as instructive. This Translation has been carefully revised with all the former Editions, and particular Attention has been paid to the various Readings of Hawkesworth, Smollett, Boyer, Litterbury, Oldes, Ozell, and others, entirely omitting their Inaccuracies and Blemithes, and preserving whatever we judged might elucidate the great Design the Author had in View when he composed this Work, viz, of promoting the Happiness of his noble Pupil and of the World in general. Embellished in a very superior Stile of Magnificence, with a set of unusually grand copper-plates, exquisitely designed by those ingenious Artists, Kauffman, Monnet, Eisen, and Morlau, and engraved, in a capital Manner, by Messrs. Walker, Collyer Grignion, Bartolozzi, and Grainger, who have exerted their unrivalled Talents in these splendid Performances; single Impression of which will be charged at as, each Print: so that these capital Engravings alone will be absolutely worth Four Times the Price of the whole Work; which is the most beautiful Edition of Telemachus ever published in this or any other Country, and Calculated To Gratify Every Class Of AtReaders.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: [1785]- Pictures
An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
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A new abridgment of the rules of French prosodia, according to Buffier's observations. Shewing, I. The Nature and Quantity of Heroic Verses. II. The Difference between Masculine and Feminine Verses. III. The Nature of the Cesura. IV. Of the mutual Relation Verses bear to each other. V. Of the Epigram, Madrigal, and Sonnet. VI. Odes and Rondeaux, &c. To which is added, the fourth satire of Mons. Boileau Despreaux, addressed to Mons. Moliere. By Terence Ryley, Teacher of French in the University of Oxford.
Ryley, Terence.Date: Printed in the Year, 1758- Books
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La femme comme on n'en connoit point, ou primauté de la femme sur l'homme.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1786- Books
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Le pot aux roses, ou correspondance secrete et familiere de l'honorable Thomas Boot, cordonnier royal, avec Sa Majesté George III, roi de la Grande-Bretagne, et ses ministres, les lords Stormont, Sandwich, Germaine et North; sur les affaires pre'sentes de l'Europe.
Boot, Thomas, cordonnier royal.Date: [1781]- Pictures
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An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: c. 1815Reference: 10937i- Pictures
Britannia seated on a throne attends to the complaints of injured Americans. Engraving by J. June after L. Boitard, 1755.
Boitard, Louis-Pierre, active 1733-1763.Date: 25 September 1755Reference: 579976i- Pictures
The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585511i- Books
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A letter from the Pretender to the Grand Seignior. Occasionally written upon his assistance of the King of Sweeden in his return to his own dominions. Translated from a French original. Enter'd in the Stamp Office, according to the late Act of Parliament.
P. P. P.Date: [1713?]- Pictures
Britannia, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, addresses Mars and Neptune as representatives of Britons as they cut through a map of North America. Engraving by L. Boitard, 1755.
Boitard, Louis-Pierre, active 1733-1763.Date: August 11 1755Reference: 579975i- Books
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The epistles and art of poetry of Horace. In Latin and English. With critical notes collected from his best Latin and French commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, Rector of Skeyton in Norfolk. Vol. IV.
Horace.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++84.
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Three figures celebrate the actions of Admiral Keppel against the French on a precipice off which fall Sir Hugh Palliser who is pulled down by the rope of an old hag and the fire breath of the devil. Etching, ca. 1779.
Date: [1779]Reference: 585015i- Pictures
French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 6 March 1799Reference: 18129i- Books
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Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality, of both sexes. From the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediteranean. Written originally in Italian, and translated from the third edition of the French. The second volume.
Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724.Date: 1709- Pictures
Four episodes in a war: John Bull at home in prosperity before the war; John Bull leaving his family and marching off to war; his family is reduced to poverty; as a gaunt, one-legged, one-eyed soldier he returns from war to his destitute family. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585523i- Pictures
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English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 42559i- Pictures
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A doctor giving a woman some medicine in front of a group of disagreeing men; representing Dr. Musgrave's attempt to bring charges against a group of politicians who had allegedly taken bribes from the French to complete the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Etching, 1769.
Date: [12 August 1769]Reference: 12168i- Pictures
The Netherlands, oppressed by Great Britain, is supported by the members of the League of Armed Neutrality (Russia, Denmark, Sweden). Etching, ca. 1780.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 2137003i