"An elderly man and wife sit close together at a meagrely spread dinner-table. With hands folded, he bends his head in melancholy resentment, while his wife hectors, with right fist clenched, the left forefinger raised in admonition. He wears neat old-fashioned dress, she is a bare-bosomed trollope. On the table are only a tankard (by the woman), a fragment of loaf, one chop with knife and fork. Dark smoke is indicated as a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoky house and a scolding wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, and publisher's name and address mostly erased from sheet. Complete imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no. 1935,0522.10.223.b., Name and address written in ink at end of imprint statement, in place of the text erased from sheet: A. [...?], 1 York Pla[...?]., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1821 by S.[?] Keys, 22 Mary le bone St., Portland Chapel
Title from text in center of image., Reissue, with altered publication date, of a plate first published in 1809. See British Museum catalogue., Above title are the phrases "Ever changing," "Ever new," and "Vive la bagatelle.", Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Reissue of the title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"A young man, [Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) misidentified by Dorothy George as] Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), stands on a platform in a crowded lecture-room, circular in shape, an arc of the wall being shown. He pours liquid from a kettle into a beaker. His table is covered with similar beakers, a tiny retort, &c. Behind him is a door inscribed 'Surrey Institution'. The absorbed audience consists chiefly of pretty women in evening dress and ugly and elderly men. Men are seated on the platform; one is standing. In the foreground (left) a much caricatured elderly man in old-fashioned dress and bag-wig leans forward on his stick, registering anguished jealousy. In his pocket is a book: 'Accum's Lectures' .... Spectators look down from a balcony immediately above the platform."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego. A date of ca. 1810 is given in the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.8 x 33.4 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility from bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"In the foreground a ragged couple superintend the throwing of sticks at objects poised (or spiked) on pegs. The very fat woman bawls, holding sticks, and extends a greedy palm to a countryman. She wears a hat and cloak, a soldier's tunic, a short tattered skirt, and fragments of boot or gaiter, and has a large pouch slung from the waist. Another yokel advances behind the first, both are eagerly intent. A dog stands beside them. The man, who is thin and rapacious, stands behind his pegs holding out one of a bundle of sticks to the second customer. In the background is the crowded fair: Punch postures on a platform; a flag with a St. Andrew's cross flies from a church tower."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Industrious Yorkshirebites
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue. Grego suggests a date of 1818., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"A Lapp settlement fills one end of an oblong hall, lit from the roof. Ice or water is bordered by snow-covered mountains or ice-pinnacles painted on the walls. In front of the water are two tents or huts, partly hidden by spectators. In the foreground is a Lapp family, a child holds a cord attached to a high-stepping reindeer decked with ribbons which draws a sledge in which sits a little English boy, holding the reins and held up by a lady. On the left behind a railing are reindeer; spectators are crowded between them and the wall. A woman holds one by the antlers, and raises two fingers towards an elderly husband. Spectators stare, ogle, and flirt. On the walls are reindeer antlers, Lapp garments of fur, &c, low boots with up-turned toes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.6 x 40.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1822, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
"View of gothic castle ruins, with fence in the foreground, in front of which a coach travelling at speed downhill at left, a one-horse gig uphill at right, a woman with a basket on a horse going uphill at left, followed by two other women and a child with baskets; row of buildings including a warehouse next to the castle at right, with a sailing ship on water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stamford Castle, Lincolnshire
Description:
Title etched in lower left corner of image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Cap. She is a comely young woman with feathered wings, and a high-waisted dress with classical sandals. Her Wheel of Fortune serves as back to her seat. She holds out a Ticket £20 000 to an eager and indignant crowd; in her left hand is a full purse. At her feet is a box of jewels, behind her a cornucopia from which pour gold coins, with a bag of Filings. At her feet four little blue-coat boys from Christ's Hospital kneel imploringly. Behind them are a brawny washer-woman and a gaily dressed young woman. The former points to tub, Soap, linen, and brush at her feet, and shouts to Robinson: Let her alone take off the Soap Tax. The latter screams Stop let Me get a Prize first. A burly bare-legged cobbler holds up an old shoe, shouting, give us a Lottery and no Leather Tax. A man next him shouts Shut up the Subscription Houses [clubs such as Brooks's]. The two on the extreme left shout No Tax on Tallow and No Horse Racing. A hideous man grovels on the ground behind Robinson to grab coins and two bags, Filings and Gold Dust, and a Prize Bag. He looks up, saying, Persevere and the Saints shall Praise you. Three men stand behind Robinson, watching; two say, with cynical smiles: Hear Hear I knew they'd Grumble and He's only a Young Chancsellor. The third says with a frown: Little Van knew [better] than to Abolish a Voluntary Tax. On Fortune's right is a pillar on which bills are pasted: Races Kings Cup, over which is a playbill: Fudge a Farce; above both is Reform . . . Parliament . . . Public Morals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.5 x 20.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Toothache, Dentistry, Quacks and quackery, Dental equipment & supplies, Pain, Birdcages, Wigs, and Dogs
"Three scenes, one above the other: top: on the shore, a shrimping girl, barefoot and very décolleté, with net and basket, showing shrimps on a plate to a stout man who examines them through an eyeglass, three other girls shrimping in the water at left, a Scottish officer and a young woman with a parasol walking off arm in arm to right, cliffs beyond; middle: a smock race, two women racing to right in the mid-distance, an excited crowd running behind them including a couple in a carriage, the men waving their hats, spectators standing and sitting on the grass in the foreground; below: digging in a field, at foreground right, two men digging for vegetables in the ground, another at left pushing a wheelbarrow with a basket full of vegetables, four shapely young women carrying other baskets on their heads, farm buildings beyond at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smock race with spectators and Men digging and hauling vegetables in a field while young women carry baskets on their heads
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "8" 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 plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1860,0211.33., Watermark, partially trimmed: [J. Wha]tman., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1, 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
"Scene in a stable; at right four horses, three standing with their heads at the hay cribs to right, separated by Doric columns, the fourth sitting in the foreground, a rope running from its bridle to an iron ring on a manger at right; at left, a rustic pouring from a drink into a goblet, surrounded by a jolly party: a man leaning on a pitchfork at centre, a young woman holding a child, a couple seated on a hayrick, and two dogs, nose to nose; open door and window behind to centre and left, tackle on the wall to right of the door."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "36" in upper right corner., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1, 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
