"Singerie copy of Hogarth's painting, 'A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen'; a pregnant young woman with the face of a cat standing to right, swearing on a book before a monkey-faced magistrate who sits at a bench to left, that the child is by...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Courtrooms, Couples, Monkeys, and Pregnancy
A man with a large nose and holding a walking stick walks arm-in-arm with a fashionably dressed young lady who holds a umbrella over her head. A woman holding the hands of two children walk toward them from the right; they all wear hats and the woman...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Hats, Noses, Teasing, Umbrellas, and Walking
"The fat, moustached, Duchess of St. Albans and the slim Duke dance with vigour and agility, each poised on the left toe, arms interlaced, and hands meeting above their heads. From the Duchess's small coronet rise giant ostrich feathers which curve ab...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
A young woman in a feathered head-dress leans against a young man who is shown in profile pulling him closer by his beard with an apparent intention of kissing him. Below the title are verses 184-185 from Pope's "The wife of Bath."
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1783, by T. Gaugain, No. 4, Little Compton Street, Soho, London
Wilson, George, active 1795-1801, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
enter'd at Stationer's Hall, Aprl. 12th, 1797.
Call Number:
797.04.12.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An unmounted design for a fan-leaf, with twenty-five numbered designs scattered across the designrepresenting absurd perversions of ordinary life; below the design is a numbered key with a description of each subject; at centre, a circular medallion w...
Alternative Title:
World grown odd and crazy
Description:
Title etched in circular medallion at the apex of the design.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Ashton & Co., No. 28, Little Britain
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Couples, Card games, Ethics, Supernatural beings, Dancing, and Virtues
A caricature of a couple, full-length and fashionably dressed in a simple way, are shown in profile kissing. The length of their arms is exaggerated and are in contrast to their short legs. The woman's eyes are open but the man's are closed
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
