"The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, part the second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25.5 x 27.6 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 30.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 70 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), holding a piece of drapery. Her hat, shoes, and garments are beside her. Two men enter (left) through a door: a young man in riding-dress who stares at the model, an elderly man who holds up his hand in apparent disapproval. The painter turns round as if to prevent their entry. On the wall sketches are pinned (suggesting the art of the history-painter). There is also a statuette on a bracket (right). The room is lit by a window on the painter's left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Painter disturbed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint; publication information from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 19.0 x 29.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), holding a piece of drapery. Her hat, shoes, and garments are beside her. Two men enter (left) through a door: a young man in riding-dress who stares at the model, an elderly man who holds up his hand in apparent disapproval. The painter turns round as if to prevent their entry. On the wall sketches are pinned (suggesting the art of the history-painter). There is also a statuette on a bracket (right). The room is lit by a window on the painter's left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Painter disturbed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint; publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
"An elderly spectacled doctor sits on a sofa beside a young woman (right) in hat and cloak. They are taken aback by the entry (left) of an irate middle-aged man, carrying hat and cane. The wall is covered by jars of specimens, &c, a retort, skeleton torso, and skull, ranged on two shelves. A draped sash-window and carved door-lintel give an impression of prosperity."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor disturb'd and Doctor disturbed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated., Printmaker from Grego., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.9 x 25 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 31st, 1785, J.R. Smith, No. 83, Oxford Street
"A young woman (negligent of her other duties) reading in an armchair, by a grand fireplace with a bas-relief decoration of a reclining nude; head in profile to right, wearing a mob cap and voluminous skirts; a poker is stuck in the grate of the blazing fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Négligée
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.620., "Simplex Mundities"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published March 6th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his bed. A gigantic spider descends towards his head, insects are spotted over the bedclothes and pillow, from which projects Ogden (see BMSat 7031). Johnson lies on his back (left) under a casement window, his eyes closed, his hands clasped as if in prayer, his knees drawn up to accommodate the shortness of the bed. A woman's dress hangs as an improvised curtain between the two beds. Under Johnson's bed two rats gnaw Boswell's wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before "a" inserted between "at" and "M'Queen's" in title. Cf. No. 7044 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]., Five lines of verse below title: "There were two beds in the room, and a woman's gown was hung on a rope to make a curtain of seperation between them ..." Vide Journal p. 153., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Night clothes -- Spider -- Spider's web -- Nightmare -- Literary quotations., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.4 x 25.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
