"A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair (left); his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ....' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with imprint
Alternative Title:
Delights of harmony
Description:
Title etched below image., Variant state, lacking publication line, of a print originally published with the imprint: London: Published May 20, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street." Cf. No. 11611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Publication information based on that of state with imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Mounted on leaf 80 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Figurines, Music rooms, Musicians, and Sleeping
"A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a comely young woman who stands demurely (l.), her pose accentuating her pregnancy. Behind them is an empty fireplace; on the chimney-piece is a Venus pudica flanked by cupids, one with a bow and arrow, the other with a torch. On the wall are two pictures; (l.) a cock and hen facing each other like fighting-cocks, and (r.) a horse in the last stage of decrepitude, assailed by carrion birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 2d, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The Marquis of Blandford walks in profile to the left. on a flagged pavement. He is stiffly erect, a cane held horizontally in his right. hand, his left. arm hanging vertically. He has sloping shoulders and long arms, and wears a double-breasted tail-coat with a high collar and modified Jean-de-Bry sleeve (see BMSat 9425) with Hessian boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of quoted text below image., Title continues: ... "which appertains solely to men of high fashion." Vide Lord Chesterfields Letters., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 9th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill, Duke of, 1766-1840
"Lord Galloway, short, bulky, and ugly, rides in profile to the left. He wears a wrinkled Jean-de-Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), with a star, round hat, and top-boots, and uses a gold-headed cane as a riding-switch."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scotch poney commonly called a Galloway and Scotch pony commonly call'd a Galloway
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A country barber, his assistant, and a boy, are engaged in shaving and wig-dressing. An elderly rustic sits full-face and well-lathered in an arm-chair in the centre of the shop, while a lean and tattered barber holds the bowl. A stout farmer in top-boots (left) with a stubbly face dubiously contemplates a wig, which he holds on a tall wig-block. On the right a fat barber painfully shaves an old man, while a younger customer stanches a cut over a basin. A young boy in front of them holds two elaborately curled legal wigs. A long judge's wig, uncurled, hangs from a wig-block. Behind (left) a prim, elderly man in a newly dressed wig adjusts his neck-cloth at a small mirror; a coachman in back view puts on his tightly curled wig. There are also two dogs, two cats, a magpie taking part of a wig from a box on the floor, and another bird in a cage. Above the door (right) are fishing-rods and a creel. On the wall are four prints: a naval battle (framed); a view of the 'County Gaol'; an execution scene; and a skeleton fiddling to exulting demons. There is also 'A Calendar of the Prisoners to be Tried. . . '. The room is ramshackle with a casement window, bricks showing through the plaster. From the roof hang a ham and a bundle of turnips and carrots."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with partially scored-through imprint of H. Humphrey burnished from plate. Cf. No. 11779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate dated in lower left corner below image: London, January 9th, 1811., Text above image, preceding publication line: The last work of the late James Gillray., and Mounted on leaf 85 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Now first published May 15th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, nephew and successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 38.4 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 41.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A sea-side scene on a hot day. The centre figure is a tall young woman, in a muslin dress with bare arms and neck, holding an open parasol and a patterned scarf. A fat 'cit' trudges along, much distressed; he mops his bald head, holding his hat with his wig inside it. A family party, forbidding and censorious, is grouped on the left, with a panting dog. In the middle distance are the sands with pedestrians fashionably dressed, and a barefooted fisher-boy with a net. Bathing-machines are in the sea, with tiny figures in the water; another with a horse is about to enter the water."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "A squall.", Watermark: Edmeads & Co., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 16th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed with side-whisker, swathed neck-cloth, high collar, and top-boots. His almost spherical wife takes his arm. She holds a little closed parasol, and wears gloves above we elbow. The feather and trimmings of her hat float behind her in the wind. On the side of the gig is a pestle and mortar, showing that the man is an apothecary. The emaciated and decrepit horse has broken knees and gaping wounds under the collar and harness; one pastern is swollen. Birds fly towards it, scenting carrion. A broken milestone (r.) is inscribed 'Miles from London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text emphasizing a lingual accent follow title: "Vednesday vas a week, my vife & I vent to Vest Vycombe, & vhether it vas the vind, or vhether it vas ..., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.4 x 37.6 cm, on sheet 28.6 x 40.0 cm., Watermark: Turkey Mills J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 10th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"On the left. Fox stands at his tavern-door, which is at r. angles to the front of the house (r.), where a large open sash-window faces the spectator. Below the window is a large inscription: 'C. J. F & Co. Dealers Rectifiers and Compounders [the 'nf' of 'confounders' is scored through, and replaced by 'mp'] of foreign Spirits'. Beside the window are chequers, indicating the sale of ale; below them: 'Whitbreads intire' [cf. BMSat 10421]. Over the door is the sign: a crown, and 'The Case is Altered' [cf. BMSat 9714], with a bunch of grapes indicating the sale of wine. Fox, very neat and debonair, with a napkin under his arm, a corkscrew in his coat-pocket, a typical tavern-keeper or head-waiter, smiles at a ragged, Bohemian-looking fellow, who approaches him, with outstretched left hand, a large book under his right. arm inscribed 'Pl[an] of Reform'. The ragged reformer says: "Ah! Citizen, how do you do. I've just finisd my plan of Reform, and as you have no plan we can as well be going on with that as doing nothing." Fox, his hand thrust in his coat-pocket, answers: "Citizen!!! we-go-on-with your plan!!! I dont understand you Oh!. I suppose you mean what I used to gammon my Custommers with when I lived over the way, but that sort of fun wont do now, we are all different people!" Within the open window members of the new Ministry are seated drinking, as if at a tavern-club meeting, with Erskine, wearing a hat and Chancellor's wig and gown, in the chairman's seat, which is surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers (see BMSat 10525); he holds the mace. On the left. (or Erskine's r.) are Sheridan (a bottle of 'Sherry' in front of him), Grey, and Lauderdale. Opposite them are (r. to left.): Grenville, Bedford, Moira (wearing a cocked hat and smoking a long pipe), Petty, and (slightly isolated) Sidmouth. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Design for a scene in the intended new melodrama entitled The forty thieves
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Pub. March 25th, 1805, by I. Hays, 25 Marylebone St., Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie or sit, legs in the air."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fundamental error in the art of skating, Elements of skateing : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting, and Elements of skating : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 39.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
