- Museum number
- 1868,0822.6899-6928
- Description
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Thirty illustrations to the 'Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas', 1822: title-page, frontispiece, twenty-eight headpieces, printed four from one plate on each sheet, decorated with octagonal scenes illustrating Kenilworth, or entitled 'Memorandum' or 'Cash Account'; each month, lettered on the left with the month, on the right with the number of days, and below with the relevant quotation from the text; after Stothard. 1822
Title-page; Atlas supporting the earth, kneeling on one knee facing left, with a semi-circular curtain draped behind; by Romney.
Frontispiece for Walter Scott's 'Kenilworth', Vo. 2, ch. 10; 'Foster, wrested the flask from her hand'; a man holding a woman by the wrist, seizing a flagon and holding it away from another woman standing on the left who wrings her hands; by Romney; with artists' names.
January, 'They stood now in an avenue'; two men at right walking through forest towards a large house in the background.
January, 'Of all the birds on bush or tree'; six men drinking around a table, four raising their cups.
February, 'Amy, fear me not'; a woman covering her eyes with hands, from the sight of a man at right, bench behind.
February, 'Tressilian drew his sword as he spoke'; two men with plumed hats facing each other in a garden.
March, 'Listening to the prattle of her attendant'; a lady sitting on sofa, another fixing her hair.
March, 'I will sit on this footstool at thy feet'; a man sitting in chair at right, woman sitting below on dais and talking to him, another woman standing at left.
April, 'There is a marsh hard by'; a man at left talking to horseman.
April, 'It is I your host'; a man with lamp approaching to another who is in bed.
May, 'He found only two gentlemen'; a man standing at right seen from behind, two others sitting on bench at left below wall with arms and armours.
May, 'No man lives that looks on him'; a man at right swinging his hummer over to attack another at left, a child stopping him.
June, 'Laid it on the miry spot'; a lady walking beneath canopy accompanied by servants.
June, 'There is nothing to be feared'; a figure in bed at left, three men standing at right.
July, 'Here Sussex is my hand.'; two gentlemen facing each other in front of a woman who sits on dais accompanied with seven other women.
July, 'She sate beneath an awning'; a noble woman sitting under awning of a boat, accompanied with group of women, crews rowing at left.
August, 'She wrote her own line'; two ladies standing in a room with large windows, one writing on the wall at left.
August, 'Amen! pretty Janet'; a man leading woman on horseback to left, she looks back to another woman outside cottage at right.
September, 'The high roads were filled.'; two wagons driving to left, one carrying barrels.
September, 'The princely Castle appeared'; view of a medieval castle seen across the moat.
October, 'She stood with one Foot advanced'; two women in a garden, one in terrace between columns, fountain with dolphins at right.
October, 'Yeomen make room'; two figures on horseback under arch seen from behind, flanked by yeomen.
November, 'Where is my Lord at Leicester.'; two women coming out from forest at right, the lord at left looking away, five other women behind.
November,
December, 'The mangled and yet warm remains'; two men discovering a dead woman, one holding a torch.
December, 'Had there perished miserably'; a keelson lying on tomb under arch.
'Memorandum'; ribbon with three flowers and swirl leaves.
'Memorandum'; another.
'Cash Account'; ribbon with three flowers and swirl leaves.
'Cash Account'; another.
Etching and engraving, printed on chine collé
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 27 millimetres (headpiece, each image approx.)
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Height: 97 millimetres (title-page and frontispiece, approx.)
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Width: 60 millimetres (headpieces, approx.)
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Width: 62 millimetres (large images, approx.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1849,0721.1827-1854 for another set with different letterings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas
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Associated Title: Kenilworth
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.6899-6928
