(Undated.)
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘“Bridge of Sighs,” St John’s College, Cambridge. 3426. G.W.W.’
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
Note underneath: 'Mrs Powell - Coldra Hall. Massacred in Abyssinia - April "/69'.
‘Ut metus absit, retineatur charitas.’ (Cicero.)
Dated at Richmond. Numbered 16.
Two ballads on one sheet.
The sketch is captioned ‘Illustrations of the Greek Drama. No II | πότερα δ’ἂν, εἰ νέμοι τις αἳρεσιν, λάβοις; | Soph. Aj. 265’. The man on the left, who is in rustic dress and appears to be holding a fishing-rod, is saying: ‘Thankee kindly 3 penn‘orth o‘ rum sir’; the man on the right, who is wearing an apron and smoking a long clay pipe, is probably the innkeeper. The sign of the inn is a rampant lion and the inscription over the door is ‘JOHN SMITH. LICENSED | BEER. ALE AND[?] SPIRITS’.
Cf. the sketches on ff. 17v and 18v.
(The ornament is from p. v. Below it are three lines of a printed dedication.)
(Engraved by G. L. Smith; composed and designed by B. Seeley. It is unclear which edition this is from.)
(A person in classical dress, standing on a small winged globe and holding a banner. Below the device is printed ‘A PARIS’, the first line of the imprint.)
(The ornaments are from p. 191 and sig. (a)3r.)
(A serpent, in a frame, flanked by cherubs, maps and globes, etc. Designed and engraved by François Chauveau.)
A serpent, in a cartouche, flanked by two female figures, one holding a shield and spear, the other a mirror.
(Engraved by I. Wood from a drawing by William Green junior.)
(A man playing a harp in front of a cottage, watched by a man leaning on a stick and three figures on horseback. On the back of the leaf are the concluding lines of ‘Naworth Castle: a Fragment’, by Frederick, Earl of Carlisle.)
)Mercury enthroned on a plinth, attended by a woman, a cherub, and a satyr. The plinth is covered with a carpet inscribed ‘Hermathena’. Engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Probably from Historie der Kerken en Ketteren, by ‘Godfried Arnold’ (Christopher Irenaeus), 2 vols., 1701.)
(A man pruning a vine, subscribed with the motto ‘Non odit tamen’. Below the device is the imprint ‘Amstelredami, | Sumptibus Henrici Laurentii Bibliopolæ. | Anno cIↄ Iↄc xliv’, printed partly in capitals. Probably from Operum theologicorum [quatuor tomi], by Caspar Sibelius.)
(A burin being sharpened on a whetstone, within the motto ‘Terar dum prosim’, in capitals, surrounded by two cherubs and two sphinxes. Engraved by Joseph Mulder from a design by B. van Overbeke. Below the device is the imprint, ‘Amstelædami, | Apud Henricum Wetstenium.’, printed in capitals.)
(A woman supporting a crown, with horns of plenty, etc., on either side. Above the device is the imprint, ‘Paris, | [..]mprimerie de François le Cointe | rüe des Sept-Voyes, prés le College de Reims.’, printed partly in capitals.)