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Total number of records: 87
Count of Record type
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 70 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 17 |
| Medieval Manuscripts | 16 |
| Incunabula | 14 |
| English Literature | 5 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 2 |
| Cookery Collection | 1 |
| International Textile Collection | 1 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 1 |
| Quaker Collection | 1 |
Top 10: Subject
Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930) | 14 |
| Anonymous | 7 |
| Baron Brotherton | 5 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton | 5 |
| Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton | 5 |
| Lord Brotherton | 5 |
| Sir Edward Allen Brotherton | 5 |
| Catholic Church | 4 |
| Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662) | 4 |
| Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) | 4 |
Count of Earliest date
painted leather sample
c. 1600
Described on an original backing card as an 'old painted leather sample', this piece has a large tooled and painted design of gold and red flowers with black outlines against a red background. The su...
France painted to the life
Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662)
1657
The first edition of this piracy of Books 1-4 of Heylyn's 'Full relation' appeared in 1656 and preceded the first authorized edition, also published in that year. The piracy adds five chapters (nos. 1...
Seated figure of a goddess
2500BCE-500 CE
A framed painting on plaster, labelled: "Seated figure of a goddess (Sekhet?), the head surmounted by a disc round which is twined the solar uraeus. Before her stands a figure with upraised arms, mak...
Title: An epigram on a painted lady with ill teeth
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 94
Contents: Argues that although a woman's beauty may entice lovers, the sight of her rotten teeth would quickly repel them
De arte graphica = The art of painting
Du Fresnoy, Charles-Alphonse (1611-1668); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Graham, Richard (fl. 1680-1720)
1695
Signatures: a-h⁴, B-Z⁴, 2A-2Y⁴, 2Z, [pi], a-h⁴, B-Z⁴, 2A-2Y⁴, 2Z. Added engraved t.p. Includes the original poem in Latin, with title: De arte graphica liber. Rendered into English f...
Title: Upon a chamber call'd Pernassus where the gentry-arms are painted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 38
Contents: Witty epigram commenting on coats of arms decorating a room called Parnassus,
possibly alluding to poetry
Complaint of various ladies who object to criticism by Members of Parliament of their painting and adorning themselves
26 Mar 1647
Humorous and irreverent proceedings of a mock parliament of ladies, debating and enacting laws for the governing of society
Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts
Sanderson, Sir William (1586?-1676)
1658
Added t.p. reads: Graphice, or, The use of the pen and pensill. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author dated 1658, and two other plates, engraved by W. Faithorne. 'The use of the pensill' be...
Title: A catch
Author: Taverner, William
Attribution: Mr Taverner [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]
Date(s): 1688 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Drinking song in praise of the effect of wine on the complexion, comparing the result to a painting
Title: On King William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Laudatory description of William III before the Battle of the Boyne,
imagining the scene as the subject of a painting
[The optick glasse of humors. Or, the touchstone of a golden temperature... Wherein the foure complexions, sangume [sic], cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke, are succinctly painted]
Walkington, Thomas (1621)
[166-?]
Title-page wanting.