1790

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in s... More

Perth-Amboy church lottery. No. The possessor of this ticket shall be ...

Not in Evans.; On verso: 1790. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 100, Folder 76.

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

Print of ornament on the title page of the Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine shows a female figure representing America sitting amid abundance while enjoying the prosperity of peace. Illus. in: The unive... More

Franc̦ois Pilatre de Rozier, né à Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort près de ...

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

Atlas général de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Tibet : pour...

Relief shown pictorially. Text in French. Place names in French and romanized Chinese. "Avec privilège du Roi." Rev. ed. of: Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. 1737. Revised ed. con... More

Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1790, Notes and Figures on Weights and Measu...

Notes and Figures on Weights and Measures

Benjamin Rush to James Madison, February 27, 1790.

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L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, December 23, 1790

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The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

Decret de l'assemblee national qui supprime les ordres religieux et re...

Print shows monks and nuns enjoying their new found liberty, some are loading possessions onto horses and wagons, some embrace, one couple kisses while another rides off together on horseback. Caption continue... More

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

Print shows a man, possibly Armand-Gaston Camus, wearing a garment fashioned entirely from "assignats" (French paper money before the livre), several men (identified by number in the caption) are standing aroun... More

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1e decembre 1783 / P.G. T...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y... More

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...

Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More

List of persons returned as members of the Legislative council [13 nam...

11 60021 4 F 44.; Rec. R. B. May 1940.; On verso: 1160C21 4F44. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collect... More

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

An act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the ex...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 214, Folder 9.

James Currie to Thomas Jefferson, September 13, 1790

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An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of ma...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 213, ... More

Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, April 4, 1790, with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to House of Representatives, July 4, 1790, Report on ...

Report on Plan for Establishing a Uniform Currency, with Draft Copy

Can love be controul'd by advice? Will Cupid our mothers obey?

A distraught woman wearing a polka dot dress kneels, with handkerchief in hand, before a woman in a bonnet and apron, pointing her finger in a scolding gesture. No copyright information found with item. Title i... More

Richard Peters to James Madison, March 31, 1790.

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Treasury Department, March 1, 1790. Pursuant to the Act for establishi...

Evans 23002.; Imprint 3. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 213... More

City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

Print shows on the left P--t [Pitt], labeled "Bank Directorship", banging his head on the Temple Bar before even getting started, the center is filled with N--n [?], labeled "Motion for paying the Prince's Debt... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, September 26, 1790

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15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

Assemblée des Capucins l'Assemblée des aristocrates, ou l'harmonica de...

Print shows a Capucin monk standing on a platform covered with money bags, ringing a bell, with a bird perched on his head, amid a collection of various jugs, jars, vases, pots (aristocratic dolts or blockheads... More

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut, engraving, Library of Congress

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist and parchutist A.J. Garnerin. Tissandier collection.

Katsukawa Shunchō - Yanagi no niwa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women and a child, standing next to and sitting on a bench beneath a willow tree at the edge of a pond. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Shichirigahama zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a seacoast village and mountain, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Koga... More

The plot of Carroll'sburgh : [part of Washington D.C.].

Cadastral survey map showing lot numbers. Pen-and-ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Torn and fold-lined. Accompanied by index of lots: List of the original proprietors of the lots in Carrollsburg... More

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; Wright sculpt.

Print shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine, half-length portrait, facing left. Engraving of a 1792 painting by George Romney. Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washing... More

Con-g-ss embark'd on board the ship Constitution of America bound to C...

In July 1790 Congress decided to move the seat of the federal government from its original site in New York to Washington, with Philadelphia as an interim capital. The unidentified satirist gives a cynical view... More

Les frères Montgolfier / Pigeot, del. et sculp.

Bust-length double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French ballonists. After the gold medal designed by Houdon. "Aux frères Tissandier" inscribed below portrait. Tissandier collection.

Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, July 4, 1790

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William Temple Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, October 13, 1790

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[Geometrical diagrams relating to perspective methods by various autho...

Four diagrams showing Miller, Kirby, Priestley, and Jesuit & French methods of perspective; sketch of interior to left. Note at center: "Artist's repository". Perspective sketch of structure with pedimented win... More

Henry Remsen, Jr. to Thomas Jefferson, October 14, 1790

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City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

Print shows on the left P--t [Pitt], labeled "Bank Directorship", banging his head on the Temple Bar before even getting started, the center is filled with N--n [?], labeled "Motion for paying the Prince's Debt... More

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

Benjamin Franklin - né a Boston, le 17 Janvier 1706 / dessiné par Desr...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in oval. Caption continues: Imprimeur; fondateur de la République des Etats unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale - mort à Philadel... More

The Providence Gazette and Country Journal Saturday, August 21, 1790. ...

Facsimile distributed as souvenir at meeting of American Historical Association at John Carter Brown Library Dec. 30, 1936. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two for... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

A short account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore in Ma...

A short account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore in Ma...

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeist...

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Print shows a man, possibly Joseph-François Foullon, on his hands and knees with a woman of the Third Estate, a sword at her side, riding on his back. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: French Political C... More

Giuseppe Girolamo Lalande / Demarchi, dis. ; Bonini, inc.

Full-length portrait of French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande. Tissandier collection.

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... More

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows George Washington, possibly at the time of inauguration, stepping on a flag with the crest of England on it.

[Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in Potter County, Pe...

Shows lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. From the William Bingham estate maps. Sectional title label affixed on verso of each sheet. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Some sheets include note and ins... More

Taste a-la-mode, 1745 ; Taste a-la-mode, 1790, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two designs on one plate both showing men and women in different styles of dress in 1745 and 1790 at St. James' Park in front of Buckingham House. Design on left is variant of print published in 17... More

A list of balances due from the several counties for taxes, from the y...

Evans 23020.; Imprint 3. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 180... More

State Department, March 26, 1790, Establishment of Ministers and Other...

Establishment of Ministers and Other Officials Abroad

Benjamin Rush to James Madison, July 17, 1790.

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November 23, 1790, Hampshire, Members of Protestant Episcopal Church, ...

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Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1790, Notes and Figures on Weights and Measu...

Notes and Figures on Weights and Measures

[Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, French balloonist, head-and-shoulder...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in ...

A British satire in which Charles James Fox, depicted with two faces, seeks the support of a former enemy, Sir Samuel Hood, while repudiating a former friend, Lord John Townshend. A scene in the background show... More

Giuochi, trattenimenti e feste annue che si costumano in Toscana e spe...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Wholy engraved with watercolor. Plates 22 and 23 signed by Carlo Lasinio, but all generally attributed to him. Plates 2 and 4 signed "G. Piattoli, inv."

... An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt. [New...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session, begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed: Fr... More

... An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. [...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session, begun and held at the City of New York, on Monday, the fourth of January, one thousand seven hondred and ninety.; Signed: F... More

Thomas Jefferson to Duchess D'Enville, April 2, 1790

Quartetto 5. in Es - Public domain music sheet scan

di me Giuseppe Haydn. (statement of responsibility) Holograph, in ink. In the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation Collection of the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.2001530... More

James Robertson to Robert Hays, February 27, 1790

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Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, June 23, 1790, with Copy

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Housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion ...

Picryl description: Public domain book on housekeeping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeist...

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...

A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More

[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascensio...

"Son tableau est fidel et vrai comme lui" printed below portrait. Tissandier collection.

Kashidori fukurō, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows an owl and a jay perched on branches in a tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awase.... More

Tsubakura kiji, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awase. Format: full color illustrated Kyōkabon. Forms part of: Jap... More

[A man engaged in metalwork, appears to be melting statues to reuse th...

Title and date devised by Library staff; other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Fake attributed to Katsushika Hokusai. Forms part of: Japanese prints... More

View of the falls of Niagara / del. 1790 ; engrav'd by S. Hill.

Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. II, no. VII, 1790 (July), opp. p. 387. Stauffer, 1... More

Laurent Guyot - J.X. Bureaux-Pusy / Trexel, del. ; Guyot, sc.

Half-length portrait of Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy. Tissandier collection.

The cutter cut up, or, the monster at full length, British Cartoon Pri...

Philip Thicknesse standing with a rope (merit) round his neck, nude except for short breeches. His person is covered with defamatory inscriptions. His chest is cut open, revealing organs labeled cowardice, crue... More

Menagerie nationale - A drawing of a group of people standing in front...

Print shows a harlequin standing on a makeshift stage with three cages on it containing members of the clergy and the nobility, and flying a banner "Collection d'Animaux Feroces et Traitres". The first cage is ... More

Title page, with no illus., of Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effe...

Illus. in: Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effects of spiritous liquors, Philadelphia, T. Bradford, 1790, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... More

By His Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esq; governor, captain-general, and c...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 22844.; Proclamation.; Imprint 3.; On verso, copy 2: {stamp} Copied from the orginial in The Rhode Island Historical Society; Ac. 5689; On verso, copy 3 and copy 4: {stamp} Gift He... More

[Cucumber or squash and eggplant] - Ukiyo e print

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View of the colleges at Cambridge, Massachusetts / delineated & engrav...

Print shows several buildings on the Harvard College campus, (l. to r.) Holden Chapel, Hollis Hall, Harvard Hall, and Massachusetts Hall.

In Council, January 21, 1790. Gentlemen. A list of the pensions, who a...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans.; On recto, copy 2: 7 50 cents. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed E... More

[One-point perspective sketches of structure, road, and trees, with sh...

Four sketches. Church interior elevation and section with galleries and vaulted ceiling on verso. M.I.T. no. A-d-12. Drawing not signed; attribution based on handwriting and drawing style. From the Massachusett... More

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More

Seneca Nation to George Washington, December 1, 1790, with Copies

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James Madison to George Washington, January 4, 1790.

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Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

Benjamin Vaughn to Thomas Jefferson, December 2, 1790, and Report

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Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier / Pinelli, inc.

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

November 15, 1790, Isle of Wight, For sale of glebes.

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