"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 15.9 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Farm scene with potato harvest; at right, outside a barn door, five figures standing around a large tub into which one man is pouring a heavy sack of potatoes, a woman standing behind him helping, a stout man looking on, children playing with a dog in the foreground, a ladder propped against the barn door, dovecote above; behind at left, two men loading sacks onto a horse-drawn cart; pigs at a trough, chickens pecking and a wheelbarrow at foreground left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "16" in upper right corner., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: 75 R79 817., and Formerly mounted on leaf 34 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
"Two scenes, one above the other: top: three men standing by a sea chest on a shore, a thin and a stout man at left discussing it, the third bending over and pulling at the cloth inside, water and shipping behind; below: a small gathering outside the 'Plough Inn', a rural tavern, at right, with a man drinking while still on horseback, four riderless horses behind him at left, church tower behind at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Small gathering outside the Plough Inn
Description:
Title devised by curator and cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with substantial loss of image and text. Description based on impression in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: 75 R79 817., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 11.9 x 17 cm., Imperfect; only top scene is present, with the bottom scene and imprint statement trimmed away., and Formerly mounted on leaf 32 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1, 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
"Two men stand in the pillory on a small platform (left); over their heads is a cask, inscribed 'Small Beer', erected on a pole. Over the head of one left is Judas, indicating Sir Cecil Wray, over the other 'J.. k-s..n' indicating John Jackson, steward of the Duke of Newcastle and a prominent supporter of Wray, see British Museum Satires No. 6492. A large key hangs from the corner of the pillory, the emblem of the back-stairs by which Pitt and his supporters were supposed to have obtained office, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6564. Behind (right) walks a procession of maidservants who look scornfully at the victims; one carries a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; others, a broom, a mop, and a shovel. Immediately behind the platform the heads of a crowd, a row of staves marking the constables who stand in front, are suggested. Fox (right) stands in the foreground haranguing the crowd; he holds a Union flag inscribed 'The Rights of the Commons'. Behind him is a mob of men waving their hats, among whom Sam House is conspicuous. The scene is by the hustings in Covent Garden, the portico of the church (right) being lighdy sketched behind Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rights of the commons
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Text on flag within image: The rights of the commons., Reissue, with new imprint statement that is antedated. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.144., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Publish'd as the act directs, May 7, 1784." See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Hustings -- Taxes: Tax on maidservants -- Brooms -- Mops -- Shovels -- Hats -- Election flags -- Election slogans: 'The rights of the Commons' -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Portico of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Pillories -- 'Small beer' -- Key of the Back Stairs -- Allusion to secret influence -- John Jackson, Duke of Newcastle's steward., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Formerly mounted on leaf 74 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26th, 1783, by H. Humphreys, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Servants, and Political elections
"Two men stand in the pillory on a small platform (left); over their heads is a cask, inscribed 'Small Beer', erected on a pole. Over the head of one left is Judas, indicating Sir Cecil Wray, over the other 'J.. k-s..n' indicating John Jackson, steward of the Duke of Newcastle and a prominent supporter of Wray, see British Museum Satires No. 6492. A large key hangs from the corner of the pillory, the emblem of the back-stairs by which Pitt and his supporters were supposed to have obtained office, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6564. Behind (right) walks a procession of maidservants who look scornfully at the victims; one carries a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; others, a broom, a mop, and a shovel. Immediately behind the platform the heads of a crowd, a row of staves marking the constables who stand in front, are suggested. Fox (right) stands in the foreground haranguing the crowd; he holds a Union flag inscribed 'The Rights of the Commons'. Behind him is a mob of men waving their hats, among whom Sam House is conspicuous. The scene is by the hustings in Covent Garden, the portico of the church (right) being lighdy sketched behind Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rights of the commons
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Text on flag within image: The rights of the commons., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 74 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Servants, and Political elections
Title devised by curator., Date assigned by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Formerly mounted on leaf 26 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later states of the plate., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Early state, before aquatint added. For later states published by William Holland in 1795 and 1805, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. 795.07.00.02+ and Wellcome Library no. 533361i., First of two plates with the same title, both etched by Rowlandson after Wigstead; see Grego. For the second plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1947,1215.2., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of title and imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 88 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 30.7 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 35.2 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 56 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
