In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
"Plate numbered 3 of Tim Bobbin [pseudonym of John Collier], "Human Passions Delineated", 1773, with a wife pulling her husband's hair as he attacks her with a ladle."--British Museum online catalogue
One man armed with a pistol pushes away another man who stands ready to attack with a raised bludgeon in his right hand. A visibly distressed woman with outstretched arms appears to plead with the combatants as another man restrains her with his arms ...
The many windowed buildings are on the right, the high curved and spiked wall on the left. A lawyer, who invoked proceedings for gaming offences against former cronies, is being tossed high from a vast blanket, having been lured into the prison. A gro...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers...
Alternative Title:
Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
Two soldiers shown full-length engaged in a fight. The bayonet of the solder on the left is pierced through the chest of the soldier on the right whose sword is drawn over his head and ready to strike
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr.1, 1791 by W. Birch, Hampstead Heath from a drawing by Hogarth
