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Admiral Keppel

Description:
Copper engraving by Cook after Dodd, published 1st Feby. 1779; oval bust portrait in uniform, hatless, in enframement with trophies and blason below.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Dodd, Daniel, active 1761-1780 (artist)
Cook, Thomas, ca. 1744-1818 (engraver)
Fielding & Walker, active 1779-1809 (publisher)
Genre:
copper engravings (visual works)
Subject:
Keppel, Augustus Keppel > 1725-1786 > Viscount > Portraits > 18th century
Local ID:
GB-NP1779sf-2
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Ao illmo., e exmo. senhor D. Fr. Domingos da Encarnação Pontevel, sagrando-se bispo de Marianna

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Name of printer and date of publication from colophon.
  • Place of publication based on other works by printer.
  • Signed on p. [3]: de …
Year:
1779
Subject:
e-po--- > s-bl---
Pontével, Domingos da Encarnação > 1721?-1793?
Pontével, Domingos da Encarnação > 1721?-1793? > Poetry
Catholic Church > Bishops > Poetry
Imprint 1779.
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Arancel general de los derechos de los oficiales de esta Real Audiencia: de los Escribanos mayores de la governacion, de rexistros, y de cavildo: y de los escribanos publicos, y reales, de provincia, y demas juzgados, y tribunales: receptores, depocitarios, alarifes, medidores, tasadores, y de las vicitas, y examenes de el protomedicato de este distrito

Description:
  • Place of publication supplied by Medina.
  • Caption title and first part of text on p. [3] reads: Don Manuel de Guirior, caballero de la Sagrada …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Guirior, Manuel de, 1708-1788
Subject:
s-pe---
Spain > Colonies > America > Officials and emploees > Salaries, etc
Peru > Politics and government > Officials and employees > Salaries, etc
Imprint 1779.
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Aranceles formados de orden de la Real Audiencia del Reyno de Guatemala, para el mejor gobierno de sus ministros subalternos: en virtud de reales cedulas

Description:
  • [4], 10, 10, 8, 6, 8, 1, [1], 6, 7, [1], 7, [1], 8, 4, 4, 4, 13, [1], 7, [1], 4 p.
  • Signatures: A⁴ …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Guatemala (Capitanía General)
Kurtz, Alice W.
Guatemala
American Antiquarian Society
Subject:
CSAIP
Fees, Administrative > Guatemala
Fees, Administrative > Central America
Costs (Law) > Guatemala
Costs (Law) > Central America
Imprint 1779.
Guatemala > Guatemala
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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At a Meeting for Sufferings, held in Providence, for New-England, the thirteenth of the ninth month, 1779: An epistle from the National Half-Year's Meeting, held in Dublin, by adjournments, from the 3d day of the fifth month, 1778, to the 7th of the same, inclusive

Description:
  • Broadsheet; verso numbered as page 2.
  • Title continues: Being read in this Meeting to our satisfaction, and the seasonable advice therein contained being also very …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
National Half-Year's Meeting Held in Dublin (Society of Friends) (creator)
Gough, John, 1721-1791 (creator)
Carter, John, 1745-1814 (printer)
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (creator)
Subject:
Quakers > Conduct of life
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB958
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence, legally warned and assembled, on Friday the 2d of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency, and consider of measures necessary to be adopted on the occasion

Description:
  • Printed area mesures: 23.5 x 14.3 cm.
  • At head of title: Providence, July 3, 1779.
  • Signed in print at end: A true Copy : Witness, …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Carter, John, 1745-1814 (printer)
Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823
Rhode Island
Rider Collection (Brown University)
Genre:
broadsides (notices)
Subject:
n-us-ri
Finance > Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources
Currency question > United States
Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence, legally warned and assembled, on Friday the 2d of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency, and consider of measures necessary to be adopted on the occasion

Description:
  • Printed area mesures: 23.5 x 14.3 cm.
  • At head of title: Providence, July 3, 1779.
  • Signed in print at end: A true Copy : Witness, …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Carter, John, 1745-1814
Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823
Rhode Island
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Finance > Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources
Currency question > United States
Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
2-ZZ R43mi Rider #87
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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Auto del Real Acuerdo sobre la reconquista de las misiones del Zerro de la Sal

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Dated at end: Lima veinte, y uno de abril de mil setecientos setenta, y nuebe.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Abella Fuertes, Juan José de.
Bromsen, Maury A.
Subject:
s-pe---
Franciscans > Peru > History
CSAIP
Missions > Peru
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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British Light Dragoons charging, c. 1779

Description:
Original unsigned ink drawing, inscribed "To Captn. St. Leger"; 4 mounted dragoons charging across countryside in foreground.
Year:
1779
Genre:
drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Great Britain. Army. Cavalry
Local ID:
GB-O1779sf-1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Canção, em que se pertendia louvar a Ill.ma e Exc.ma Senhora Marqueza de Valença D. Maria Telles da Silva, pela resolução de acompanhar ao Governo da Bahia a seu esposo o Il.mo e Exc.mo Senhor Marquez de Valença

Description:
  • In verse.
  • Title vignette: coat of arms.
  • Signatures: [pi]² (-[pi]2) * ([pi]1 verso, *4 verso blank)
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Melo, José Jacinto Nunes de, ca. 1740-1814
Subject:
s-bl---
marquesa de Valença > Silva, Maria Teles de
Portuguese poetry
Bahia (Brazil : State) > History
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Caporal de chasseurs, Régiment du roi, 1779-80

Description:
One of a collection of 16 hand-colored engraved plates of uniform figures after Hoffmann. Officer in white holding rifle, other soldiers in background.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Hoffmann, Nicolaus, 1740-approximately 1823 (artist)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
France. Armée > Uniforms
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Carta de hermandad de la Cofradia de señor S. Josef fundada en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Buenamuerte de Padres Clèrigos Reglares Ministros de los Enfermos

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Imprint from colophon.
  • In middle of title: woodcut of Saint Joseph holding the Christ Child.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Cofradía del Señor San Josef (Lima, Peru)
Subject:
s-pe---
CSAIP
Broadsides, etc > Peru > Lima
Confraternities > Peru > Lima
Cofradías (Latin America)
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Certifico yo el infrascripto escrivano publico, y de S.M. en esta ciudad de Lima, que segun aparece del real orden de S.M: expedida en el Pardo à veinte , y cinco de marzo del año proximo anterior

Description:
  • Title from beginning of text.
  • Dated on p. [4] ... doy la presente en los Reyes del Perù à [treinta dias (in ms.)] del mes …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Luque, Francisco.
Jacot Ortiz Rojano, Melchor.
Subject:
s-pe---
Jacot Ortiz Rojano, Melchor
Peru (Viceroyalty). > Real Audiencia (Lima) > Appropriations and expenditures
CSAIP
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Chevalier français de l'Ordre Royale Militaire de St. Louis: Costume paré de 1787 à Paris

Description:
Male figure walking towards left holding large hand-warmer.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Bar, Jacques Charles (artist)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Ordre de Saint-Louis > Pictorial works
Decorations of honor > France > Pictorial works
Orders of knighthood and chivalry > France > Pictorial works
Clothing and dress > France > 18th century > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Chronologen: Ein periodisches Werk

Description:
  • von Wekhrlin.
  • Edited by Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin.
  • A literary and cultural journal focused mostly on European affairs, but including articles critical of the American revolution …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Wekhrlin, Wilhelm Ludwig, 1739-1792
Subject:
e-gx---
German periodicals
German literature > Periodicals
German mercenaries
Iroquois Indians
Iroquois Indians > Wars
Iroquois language > Texts
Indian linguistics > Iroquois language
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Foreign public opinion
Imprint 1779.
Imprint 1781.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Germany > Leipzig
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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The Church Militant: From the Original Picture by John Collett, in the possession of Carington Bowles

Description:
2nd in pair of color mezzotint caricatures after Collet, printed for Carington Bowles, 15 Sep., 1779; preacher outside tent with group of soldiers and fat …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Collet, John, 1720-1780 (artist)
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793 (publisher)
Genre:
mezzotints (prints)
Subject:
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837
Great Britain > Social life and customs > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Army > Caricatures and cartoons
Church of England > Clergy > Caricatures and cartoons
Clergy in art
Soldiers in art
Local ID:
GB-H1779mf-1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec

Description:
Mezzotint, published 10th Octr. 1779; Wolfe seated on ground attended by kneeling soldier and doctor(?), another soldier standing and another approaching at left.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Robert Sayer & James Bennett (publisher)
Genre:
mezzotints (prints)
Subject:
Wolfe, James > 1727-1759 > Death and burial
Great Britain. Army. General Staff > Battles > 18th century
Anglo-French War, 1755-1763
Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759
Quebec Campaign, 1759
Seven Years War, 1756-1763
Local ID:
GB-P1759mf-1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride through the countryside

Description:
Don Quixote, mounted on Rocinante, and Sancho Panza, mounted on his donkey, ride through the countryside. Sancho Panza asks to be made governor of the …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Castillo, José del (artist)
Selma, Fernando, 1752-1810 (engraver)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)
Local ID:
1-SIZE PQ 6323 A1 1780 1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Illustrated Quixote
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Don Quixote confronts Roque Guinart

Description:
Don Quixote, unarmed, confronts Roque Guinart, who is mounted on his horse and carrying a rifle. Behind Roque are more men, some armed with rifles, …
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Carnicero, Antonio, 1748-1814. (artist)
Muntaner, Fr., 1743-1805. (engraver)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
Local ID:
1-SIZE PQ 6323 A1 1780 4
Collection:
Brown University Library
Illustrated Quixote
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Don Quixote on his death bed

Description:
The priest, the bachelor, Samson Carrasco, the barber, master Nicholas, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's niece, Antonia Quixano, and friends gather around Don Quixote's death bed.
Year:
1779
Contributor:
Carnicero, Antonio, 1748-1814. (artist)
Selma, Fernando, 1752-1810 (engraver)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character)
Local ID:
1-SIZE PQ6323 A1 1780 4
Collection:
Brown University Library
Illustrated Quixote
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