An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks ...
Alternative Title:
Taylor turned lord Tailor turned lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum ca...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
A lecherous old man in a fur cap and coat embraces from behind a young maid whose open shift reveals her breasts. She is pointing with her left hand to her mouth and does not appear to reject the advances
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, used to illustrate Town and country magazine, xix, p. 249, an account of the captain of an East Indiaman who acquired a fortune and bought an estate in a western country ... His mistr...
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
771.12.14.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 December 1771]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 14. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat man attempting to mount a horse, assisted by a groom, while a couple laugh from an upper window."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
London jockeys going to Newmarket
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Decemr. 14th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horse grooms, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Couples
The thin, half-dressed man is scolded by his fat wife who has caught him in the garret bedroom with their young female servant. A bundle of his clothes in her arms, the servant scratches her head at the door. Pasted on the walls and ceilings of the ro...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Methodists, Adultery, Attics, Couples, Bedrooms, Servants' quarters, and Women domestics
