Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another bes...
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Two lovers in a room with a shuttered window and floral wallpaper. The young woman wearing a bonnet sits in a chair holding the hand of the young man who has arrived disguised as a woman. The huge hat he has removed is lying on a table in front of a p...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Interiors, Windows, Draperies, Furniture, and Clothing & dress
A young dandy carrying walking stick and sword and with huge buttons on his coat, walks towards the left of the print, a long horn sprouting from his forehead and a diminutive woman emerging from his left shoulder. Behind him, arm in arm with a woman,...
Alternative Title:
Alas! Poor Benedick
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cuckolds, Couples, Dandies, British, and Clothing & dress
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Lady with elaborate headdress sitting in chair in front of a sofa holds an open book (The whole duty of man) in her left hand and pulls up her skirts with the right, while a kneeling man in a pigtail wig and wearing a sword examines her left foot as i...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1 by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Couples, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Feet, Sofas, and Hairstyles
A young couple is sitting at a round table. The girl, smiling at her companion, is pointing to a mousetrap with a mouse in it. The young man, holding a cat under his left arm, reciprocates with a gesture of self-assurance
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
A young man (left) holds his right hand between his face and the flame of a candle in the candlestick in holds in his left hand. He is also shielding his view of the older woman who gazes down at him admiringly. She holds a rose in her right hand tha...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 2d 1793 by M. Benedetti, No. 92 Norton Street, Marybone
