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Thirty illustrations to an edition of 'Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas' for 1810: title-page, frontispiece, twenty-eight headpieces, showing scenes from Grabbe's poems, lettered to the left of the scene with the month, to the right with the number of days in that month, and below with subject details; or with decorative elements and the word 'Memorandums' or 'Cash Account'; by Angus after Stothard. 1810 Title-page: Atlas supporting the globe, standing in profile to right, his right arm behind his back, the globe over his shoulders and the nape of the neck, on classical plinth, flanked by pairs of columns. Frontispiece, 'Marriages'; in a wedding, a couple kneeling in front of two clerics at left, four ladies at right. January, 'beneath you cliff they stand'; four men with two horses on the coast at right, a sailing boat on the sea at left, from 'The Village'. January, 'and fell beneath him'; five men rejoicing over the sixth who lies on the ground, from 'The Village'. February, 'the oceans miserable prey'; five men on the coats at left, hauling a large boat at right, from 'The Village'. February, 'leaning on their scythes, look o'er'; three men working in a field, all with scythes, from 'The Village'. March, 'hear him murmur to the winds'; a shepherd standing in profile, leaning on his staff, his flock at right, from 'The Village'. March, 'but his sad emblem now'; a man standing in profile leaning on staff, looking at tree at left, from 'The Village'. April, 'devotes the night to play'; five sitting and two standing figures around a table, playing cards, from 'The Village'. April, 'who press the downy couch'; a woman reclined on bed, taking the hand of man who sits at left, from 'The Village'. May, 'so he resign'd his breath'; man gathering around an injured noble man, battle behind, gunmen on circular fort, from 'The Village'. May, 'and while she stands abash'd'; a woman and three men standing at right, two men sitting at desk at left, from 'The Village'. June, 'where loitering stay a little tribe'; villagers in graveyard outside a church, some sitting on graves at left, from 'The Village'. June, 'these are the peasants joy'; a family of six gathered in front of fire, father reading book to three children, from 'The Parish Register'. July, 'riots are knightly heard'; a father and mother fighting, three children stopping them, from 'The Parish Register'. July, 'the sybil of the row'; an old woman sitting outside cottage, taking hand of a young woman standing in front of her, from 'The Parish Register'. August, 'they talk'd of love'; a young couple standing in field and taking each other's hand, windmill, cottage, sea behind, from 'The Parish Register'. August, 'here his poor bird'; seven men watching cock fighting, from 'The Parish Register'. September, 'Go! to thy curse and mine'; a man chasing woman with infant away from their cottage, windmills in the left background, from 'The Parish Register'. September, 'then sits and grazes'; a woman sitting in moonlit forest, in profile under tree at right, watching river at left, from 'The Parish Register'. October, 'at her cottage door'; an old woman sitting outside cottage, talking to a young standing woman, boy with hoop at left greeting the women, from 'The Parish Register'. October, 'then by what name'; seven men around an infant, one lifting the veil over him, window behind, from 'The Parish Register'. November, 'now from their seats departed'; a man and woman sitting in candle-lit cellar, drinking from barrel at right, from 'The Parish Register'. November, 'arm in arm, they totter'; a man and woman approaching to two clerics at right, three women at left, f
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