Mukau tokoro muteki Heijou kanraku
Toward this place unrivaled, The Fall of Pyongyang]]> 1 item: 15 x 29 in.
1 item: 15 x 10 in.]]> Gazan gaisen kangei no zu
Welcoming the Triumphant Japanese Army]]> Sugiyama Hori Ei, Engraver]]> Broadside 184-? Gore ]]>
Today that hospital continues as the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, a teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, affiliated with the University of Paris Descartes.
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The Temple of flora was issued with a separate engraved titlepage contained on 2 leaves, bearing the date 1799; the text consisted of descriptions of the plants, poetry and miscellaneous material.

Plates are primarily aquatints and mezzotints executed by a variety pf artists and engravers; signed by artists: Russel [Russell], Opie, Reinagle, Perther, S. Edwards, Thornton and Henderson; and engravers: Caldwall, Burke, Ward, Elmes, Warner, Earlom, Lewis and Hopwood, Sutherland, Medland, Dunkarton, Stadler and Landseers.

"Originally published in parts between 1799 and 1807; published in book form with additional material and plates in 1807"--ESTC.

The work was first advertised in 1797, and seems to have been issued in parts at twenty-five shillings each between 1799 and 1807; no two copies are exactly alike as Thornton made up copies using different combinations of plates.

Most plates with date and publishing information printed at bottom, others have date added in pencil; many plates are in 2nd (or later state) according to Grigson in Thornton's Temple of flora (1972)

Plates are arranged in the order in which they appear in the original contents sheet. Cf. Grigson, G. Thornton's Temple of flora, 1972.]]> ]]>
Plates are dated 1799-1807 with the exception of "Queen flower" which bears the printed date of 1812.]]>
This plaster replica of Giuseppe Ceracchi's 1794 marble bust was made by Lanelli following Hamilton's tragic death. Ceracchi (b.1751), the renowned Roman sculptor, visited Philadelphia in 1791 and 1794. Here he modeled many of America's founding fathers, Washington, Jefferson, etc., in the guise of Roman emperors. The engraving of Hamilton on the US $10 bill is based upon the Ceracchi bust.

Banished from Italy because of his liberal political views, Ceracchi was executed in Paris in 1801 after plotting to assassinate Napoleon.

The bust was painted in 1955.
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The bust was deposited at the Athenaeum in November of 1814 with several other plaster castings by the sculptor. When moving out of the American Philosophical Society (where the Athenaeum had been renting rooms) and into their own new building in 1847, the Athenaeum for some reason left the bust of Minerva behind. It was finally returned to the Athenaeum in 1961.]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Background is beige with raised vertical stripes of alternating solid and broken bars. Embroidered with heavy silk threads (rose, pink, beige, yellow, black and green) in main design of clusters of assorted flowers. This is bordered by an embroidered vertical pattern of alternating discs and petals in shades of gold, brown and pink.
This scrap of fabric was preserved by the Bordentown Library as a souvenier taken when the furnishings of "Point Breeze" were sold at public auction in 1847.]]> Textured beige background with raised vertical stripes. Small embroidered design of flowers.
This scrap of fabric was preserved by the Bordentown Library as a souvenier taken when the furnishings of "Point Breeze" were sold at public auction in 1847.]]> ]]> ]]>
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (1769 - 1832), known as Baron Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist widely admired for his research and publications on zoology and paleontology. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He was perpetual secretary of the National Institute and as a public official was connected with public education generally. In 1808 he was placed by Napoleon upon the Council of the Imperial University.

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia holds books by Cuvier on the subjects of zoology, geology, and paleontology in its Rare Book Collection.]]> ]]>