"A hare crouches in long grass beside an old tree. The younger man runs forward dragging his gun, and holds out his hat to throw it on the hare. Both dogs slink furtively behind him. The elder man squats down to watch (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney-sportsmen finding a hare
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Fourth of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Hare hunting., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 38.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A young and very smart officer lunges forward, pointing his tasselled cane at one of a line of soldiers who stand rigidly at attention full face, but with 'Eyes right' (the words inscribed at the end of the cane). He shouts: "Hold up your Head that Man there!" He holds his (sheathed) sword, attached to a sword-belt, in his left hand. The soldiers wear plumed shakos, long gaiters, and shoes with very pointed toes. Behind is a row of spectators, men and women, and one little boy. Some are fashionably dressed; one is a fat butcher."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 12th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A caricature of Hamilton, in back view, in the form of a porcelain vase standing on a (chipped) base inscribed: 'D AM.N.Q.V.I.Σ.Σ.Ω.N'. The wig, with black bag, forms the cover of the vase. The shoulders are enormously wide and curved, with large projecting epaulettes. The curved body of the vase, broadened by the arms, dwindles to the coat-tails, and rests on a stem consisting of two short and bulging legs terminating in ungainly buckled shoes. See BMSat 9753."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From Sir William Hamilton's collection
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. May 8th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"The interior of a small brick shed in which coal is heaped. George Hanger, in profile to the left, thin, and in tattered but fashionable clothes, carries a sack towards the doorway through which a coal-cart is seen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: coal shed -- Trades: coal-man -- Allusion to debts., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 21.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering; on his nightcap is an insect. The plaster has fallen from the wall leaving large patches of brick; on it hang his sword, cloak, cocked hat, and a bust portrait of Frederick the Great inscribed 'F. 11'. The only objects on the boarded floor are a close-stool (left) with a torn 'Brussells Gazette', a chamber-pot, and pair of jack-boots (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: delapidated cottage -- Furniture: truckle bed -- Close-stool -- Chamberpots -- Newspapers: Brussels Gazette -- Smoking: pipe -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Frederick II -- Military uniforms: German uniform -- Emblems: two-headed Habsburg eagle -- Germany: German Legion (York Hussars)., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.0 x 34.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22th [sic], 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A box-like room is suspended in the sea by ropes on pulleys, a shaft ascending from its roof. There is no front wall, enabling sea-monsters to attack the occupants, who are four terrified little men, naked except for breeches. In each of the three walls is a barred window; through one (right) a large fish has pushed its head to seize the head of a man in its jaws, while water gushes in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 19th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A street scene lit by a lamp projecting from a high brick wall: 'Maiden Lane'. A tall man, very thin and pale, walks (right to left), wearing spectacles, a cane in his right hand. His shoulders are thickly sprinkled with powder, cf. BMSat 8190, &c. He terrifies an Irish fishwife, who holds up both arms to avert the spectre, turning away with a terrified stare, saying, "Governor Wall's Ghost! - [the only title] by J .... s!" Her basket of fish falls to the ground. The man is corpse-like, and his clothes seem to hang on a skeleton. The woman is stout and very ragged. Beside her a tunnel penetrates the wall, slanting down from the street-level, under an arch inscribed 'Cyder Cell[ars]', a famous night-resort in Maiden Lane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in speech bubble within image. and Mounted on leaf 78 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 21st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Skeffington, in back view, stands squarely, but looks smiling to the right, his sharp features in profile. He wears a round hat, powdered hair, with a dark whisker, a much-wrinkled Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), breeches, and top-boots with spike toes. His coat-collar and shoulders are thickly coated with hair-powder (cf. BMSat 8190). His attitude is that of one displaying his ungainly costume. He faces a path which leads to a distant gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Top-boots with spike toes -- Gibbets., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.1 x 18.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"One of a set of four hunting-scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint; they have pleasant landscape backgrounds, with clouds. A rider (left) has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming; the horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence (right). From one pocket spout the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a cold chicken, other hounds are making with fierce intentness towards the chicken. A second rider just behind the fence pulls up his horse in alarm, a third in the background leaps over fence and ditch. See BMSats 9589-91; cf. BMSat 9592, &c."--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 huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Food: chicken -- Beverage: wine -- Hounds., 1 print : etching & soft ground etching with stipple & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 38.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
