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28. Ars-musica [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 February 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A grinning woman sits full-face behind a square piano, playing with complacent vigour. At her feet is a dog. She accompanies an elderly violinist (left) and 'cellist (right), who both regard her with rage; the former has ceased playing. The 'cellist's contorted features are copied in BMSat 9605."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing north., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: piano -- Cello -- Violin or viola -- Pets: pug., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 36.6 cm, on sheet 29.6 x 39.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars-musica [graphic]
29. Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 April 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harlequin; the tight chequered dress (slightly torn) accentuates his obesity; an empty purse hangs from his belt; in his left hand is a hat with a tricolour cockade (emblem of Jacobinism). In his right hand he flourishes a large pen whose feather makes wide swirling curves, terminating in firework-stars, and inscribed with the names of newspapers: 'Courier', 'Morning Post', 'Morning Herald', 'Morning Chronicle'. He is masked, to indicate that he has been writing anonymous squibs against the Pic Nics. The swirls of his pen partly obscure a figure of Comedy, meretricious, and half-naked, holding up a mask which decorates the left pilaster of the proscenium. The actors follow in characteristic attitudes. Kemble (as Hamlet) wearing a ribbon, ranting in tragedy, directly behind Sheridan, staggers back with legs astride, both arms raised. On the left is Mrs. Billington, singing as in BMSat 9765, left hand on her breast. Mrs. Siddons (? as Lady Macbeth) clutches a dagger. Behind is the head of Lewis (see BMSat 9915), with a comedian's smile, wearing a cocked hat. Crowds of actors pressing on from behind (left) and in deep shadow, are indicated by arms holding up banners; the chief one with the head of 'Shakespeare', badly torn. Others are 'Otway Rowe'; 'Kotzbue', and 'Schiller', both tricolour (indicating the supposedly revolutionary tendencies of modern German drama, cf. 'The Rovers' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', and BMSat 7054); 'Jonson', 'Congreve', 'Addison'. In the foreground, through splintering boards, the ghost of Garrick rises, a mask in his hand. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide Tottenham Street pantomime., Watermark: E & P., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 2d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Blowing up the Pic Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets [graphic]
30. Comfort to the corns [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 February 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Wash tubs -- Chairs: carved gothic chair -- Female dress: slippers -- Scrubbing brushes -- Medical procedures., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 22.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comfort to the corns [graphic]
31. Coming-in at the death [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 April 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A rider flings his arms above his head in terror as his horse plunges head first into a deep pool, making a gigantic splash. A horse immediately behind him (left) rears, and its rider also throws up his arms terror-struck. On the farther side of the water (right), and in the background, a huntsman stands holding out the fox by the tail to the hounds."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntmen's skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hunting: fox hunt., 1 print : aquatint, etching & soft ground etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 29.0 x 38.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Coming-in at the death [graphic]
32. Corporeal stamina [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 April 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The bulky Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827) stands in profile to the left. He wears a small round hat with long powdered hair tied back, and a whisker; a double-breasted coat over a double-breasted waistcoat, striped breeches, striped stockings, and wrinkled top-boots with heavy spurs. He holds a glove in his (gloved) left hand. In his right hand is a small cane. A double chin, heavy, paunchy figure, and wrinkled dress give an impression of physical slackness."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Mental energy.", 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 26.3 x 20.1 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Watermark: 1804 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Corporeal stamina [graphic]
33. Diana return'd from the chace [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 March 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lady Salisbury stands on a mound holding up a fox's brush. She has outstripped the hounds who rush towards her, the foremost just about to reach her. She turns her head in profile to the left; her long dark hair streams down her back; she wears a hunting-cap resembling the helmet of a light horseman, the skirt of her habit and an under-petticoat are in tatters, the lower part torn away, showing laced half-boots and torn stockings. A masculine collar is thickly swathed with a coloured scarf, as in BMSat 10169. She wears an eyeglass on a ribbon. The background is a landscape with distant mountains; horses and hounds in the middle distance. Below the title: '"Out-stript the Winds in Speed upon the Plain, "Flies o'er the Fields, nor hurts the bearded Grain; "Men, Boys & Women, stupid with surprize, " Where e'er she passes, fix their wondering eyes. Drydens Virgil - '."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Diana returned from the chace
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: 1801 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd March 16th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diana return'd from the chace [graphic].
34. Dido in despair! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 February 1801]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807)., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 36.0 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 40.2 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: Ruse & Turners., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil., Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815, Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805, and Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Parodies, imitations, etc, Antiques, Bedrooms, Interiors, Obesity, and Window seats
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dido in despair! [graphic]
35. Fat-cattle [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 January 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duke of Bedford stands in a stockyard in profile to the left, the fingers of his right hand dug into the flank of an immensely fat ox. He is not caricatured and is plainly dressed, wearing a round hat and heavy top-boots, holding a stock-whip. He says: "Ah, here's your sort! - here's your Nine-Inch Fat my boys! "O how he will cut up! (as my old friend Burke said!) - "how he will Tallow in the cawl and on the Kidneys!" Behind are three corn-stacks, trees, two other oxen, some very fat sheep (right). In the foreground are geese (left), and a pig (right) eating from a heap of carrots and turnips."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One line of text spanning both sides of title: To the Society for Improving the Breed this sketch of Tavistock Farmyard is dedicated., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove / laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.0 x 25.7 cm, on sheet 39.6 x 28.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 16th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fat-cattle [graphic]
36. Field-Marshall Count Suwarrow-Romniskoy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Whole length caricature portrait. Suvóroff stands gazing into space with fierce melancholy, right hand on the hilt of a sabre dripping with blood, left hand on his hip. He has Kalmuck features, a bald head with a sabre-cut, moustaches. He wears a fur-bordered tunic and fur-topped boots with heavy spurs; a fur-lined cloak hangs from his shoulders. A miniature is suspended from a button. The smoke from a burning town on the horizon (right) slants across the background. Beneath the title: '"This extraordinary Man is now in the prime of life, - Six Feet, Ten Inches in height; - never \ "tastes either Wine or Spirits; takes but one Meal a day; " & every Morning plunges into an Ice Bath; - \ "his Wardrobe consists of a plain Shirt, a White Waistcoat & Breeches, short Boots, & a Russian Cloak; \ "he wears no covering on his head either by day or night - when tired, he wraps himself up in \ "a Blanket & sleeps in the open air; - he has fought 29 pitched Battles, & been in 75 Engagements" - See Vienna Gazzette.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., The drawing is fictitious., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: fur trimmed Russian tunic -- Sabres -- Miniatures suspended from button of tunic -- War destruction and pillage -- Newspapers: reference to Vienna Gazette., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.4 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 36.8 x 26.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 10 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23d, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
- Subject (Name):
- Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ Italiĭskiĭ, 1730-1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Field-Marshall Count Suwarrow-Romniskoy [graphic]
