1790

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

[Two restrikes by unknown artists]

Print on left is restrike of De Claussin's portrait of Rembrandt; print on right is restrike of Rembrandt's portrait of Jan Lutma. In portfolio: Recueil de quatre-vingt-cinq estampes originales, têtes, paysages... more

Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tesse, April 24, 1790

Le pied de néz - dedié aux aristocrates

Print shows two angels, one standing on a globe and holding a sword, the other, as Fame, soaring above at right, holds a laurel crown and blows a horn; in the foreground, blown over by the force of the angels, ... more

Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., August 14, 1790, Receipt

Receipt

Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, June 13, 1790

[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

Lemesurier & Company to Thomas Jefferson, September 8, 1790, Account C...

Account Charges

Thomas Jefferson to Robert Leslie, June 27, 1790

Thomas Jefferson, July 21, 1790, List of Consulates Still Vacant

List of Consulates Still Vacant

Plano del Río de Guazacuals. cituado en la costa del S. del seno mexic...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, ... more

Thomas Jefferson to John Woodard, December 1, 1790

Este plano manifiesta la cituación y configuración del bajo llamado el...

Shows a portion of the Salinas Bay and associated coast between Morro Hermoso and Arroyo Hondo. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: Van der Ley. Pen-and-ink and yellow watercolor. LC... more

Tsubakura kiji

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

Le Pied de nez ou l'aristocratie ecrasée

Aristocrat with crown, clergy with long noses, triumphant figures of the Republic, destruction of the aristocracy.

Menagerie nationale

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

Thomas Jefferson to Uriah Forrest, June 13, 1790

Kashidori fukurō

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

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; Wright sculpt.

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

Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, August 31, 1790

[Title page of narrative of the captivity and suffering of Benjamin Gi...

Illus. in: William Walton, Narrative of Benjamin Gilbert, Philadelphia, 1790. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI WORKS; BI; Indians Attacks...; Pa. Hist.; Shelf.

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

"Son tableau est fidel et vrai comme lui" printed below portrait. Title devised by Library staff. Tissandier collection.

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

Title from item. 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. ... more

Shichirigahama zu

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

Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, June 1790, United States Conduc...

United States Conduct in War between Spain and Great Britain

James Madison. Notes, Customs Duties. 1790.

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[Cucumber or squash and eggplant]

Thomas Jefferson to Unknown, August 8, 1790, Incomplete

Incomplete

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.

Jing ban tian wen quan tu /

Scale not given. Shows two hemispheres, the territory, administrative divisions, and topographical features of the Qing Empire. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Based on map of China dr... more

Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, November 27, 1790

Flaming sword, or a sign from Heaven! Being a remarkable phenomenon se...

A narrative of the mutiny, on board His Majesty’s ship Bounty; London...

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

Thomas Jefferson to Francis Kinloch, November 26, 1790

[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

Thomas Jefferson to David Howell, July 21, 1790

Thomas Jefferson, March 20, 1790, Extract of Letter from a Gentleman i...

Extract of Letter from a Gentleman in London to his Friend in New York

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

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

Thomas Jefferson, July 1, 1790, Estimate for Expenses

Estimate for Expenses

An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of l...

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 21.

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

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

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

The cutter cut up, or, the monster at full length

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

Yanagi no niwa

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

Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, August 29, 1790

Alexander Hamilton , May 10, 1790. "Abstract of duties which have accr...

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Mary Jefferson to Thomas Randolph, October 1790

Plano del Río de Guazacualcos cituado en la costa del S. del seno mexi...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark: IV. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 572 Available also through the Libr... 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

Thomas Jefferson to Roger Alden, July 25, 1790

... An act providing for holding a treaty or treaties to establish pea...

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 nineth.; Signed: Fr... 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

Unknown to James Madison, June, 1790. Note on Pennsylvania Congression...

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Beverley Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, July 10, 1790

Jefferson, Venango & Armstrong.

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum in Jefferson, Venango, and Armstrong Counties (Pa.). Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. Title on label affixed to ... 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

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut

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

The Pancake woman

Restrike from unidentified artist of Rembrandt's The Pancake Woman. In portfolio: Recueil de quatre-vingt-cinq estampes originales, têtes, paysages et différences sujets, dessinés et gravées de Rembrandt ... Pa... more

Alexander Hamilton, June 1790, Note on Weights and Measures

Note on Weights and Measures

M. Charles

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Title from item. Tissandier collection.

Thomas Jefferson to Elias Boudinot, June 29, 1790

Le concert L'essentielle est d'accorder nos instruments pour que l'har...

Print shows three men playing musical instruments; they represent the clergy, the aristocracy, and the third estate. Title from item. Trimmed within plate. de Vinck, 2050/2051 Forms part of: French Political Ca... more

A recommendation from the convention of the Congregational ministers, ...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Ford. 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 44, Folder 1.

Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, May 16, 1790

Massachusetts Legislature, June 7, 1790, Resolution Transmitting Memor...

Resolution Transmitting Memorial from Consul of France

Susquehanna & Sinnemahoning.

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum in the Susquehanna (West Branch) and Sinnemahoning Valleys, Clinton County (Pa.). Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, dimensions, a... more

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

The comforts of matrimony - a smoky house and scolding wife

Man seated by window and smoky fireplace, with woman shaking fist at him; child falling off stool. Hand-colored engraving by Robert Sayer. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress... more

The night mare

Cartoon shows a scantily clad woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers, as one of her arms hangs to the floor near a chamber pot written on it... "Source of N... more

Le corps Aristocratique sous la figure d'une femme expirant dans les b...

Print shows a plainly-dressed female figure dying in the arms of a man, representing the nobility, as two other men, one checking her pulse, stand nearby.

Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, February 14, 1790

Le demenagement du clergé J'ai perdu mes benefices, rien n'égale ma do...

Print shows a group of ecclesiastical figures departing a church with what remains of their belongings (following the November 1789 decree by the National Assembly regarding church property); at the center of t... more

Thomas Jefferson to Mercy Otis Warren, November 25, 1790

Philip Southall to James Madison, January 1, 1790. Receipt.

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Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, February 14, 1790

20 tracts, Charleston.

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum in Charleston Township, Tioga County (Pa.). Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. Title from label affixed to verso. ... more

James Maury to James Madison, February 13, 1790.

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Les moines aprenant à faire l'exercise

Cartoon showing four men, monks, wearing the uniform of the National Guard marching in a disorderly manner. Caption continues: ...avec de la patience nous en viendrons about et avec le temps nous marcherons com... more

Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carroll, June 13, 1790

Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, June 17, 1790

Quel bonheur de retrouver ce que l'on aime

Print shows a line of monks emerging from a monastery and a line of nuns emerging from a convent, at center is a citizen, wearing a cockade on his hat, getting married to a nun, on the left two married couples,... more

La visite du camp par les commissaires aristocrates

Print shows an aristocrat and a clergyman at a military camp to inspect the troops are confronted by three jeering soldiers. Title from item. de Vinck, 3682 Blum, 528 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Col... more

View of the bridge over Mystic River & the contry adjacent from Bunker...

Print shows bird's-eye view from Bunker Hill of the "Malden Bridge" across the Mystic River, with Medford in the background. Title from item. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowled... more

[Map of Carrollsburg showing its street and lot system with the later ...

Cadastral map showing lot and block numbers. Carrollsburg shown in red, Washington in green. India ink and watercolor. Soiled, missing small sections along edges, and mounted on cloth backing. Includes text and... more

Count de Luz-Salucec to Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1790, in French

in French

Plano del Río Guazaquacos situado en la costa del S. del seno mexicano...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 575 Available also through the Libr... more

Thomas Jefferson to William Short, July 1, 1790

Thomas Jefferson, 1790, French Debt

French Debt

Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, June 11, 1790

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

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

Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Lambert, September 6, 1790, in French

in French

[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

[Title page engraved vignette: allegory of America resting her shield ...

Engraving by Thackara & Vallance - C.W. Peale, del't. Illus. in: Title page of The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine for 1790. vol. V. Philadelphia. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr). This record contains unve... more

[Portraits engr. by William Blake and J. Chapman].

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1839 Plate 1 (Edmund Pitts, Esq.) also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

North-Carolina. The following minutes concerning the state of North-Ca...

On verso: 09-83-443.20. 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 135, Folder 3a.

Washington

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

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. Title from item. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: Fr... more

Dn. Vicente Lunardi, vive en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro

Print shows banner with name of Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi; includes figure playing a drum and two others dancing. "Preco" printed below image. "Bilhete d'introduc̦ão na Platca do Anfitheatro do Terreir... more