"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Foreign opinion, British.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Ownership., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Stamp., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Cats., Children., Couples. , Dance., Dogs., and Interiors.
"Lunardi, slim and handsome, walks diagonally towards the spectator from the right, supported on a staff, his left hand held out as if begging. On his back is his collapsed balloon, a large bundle from which project a net and two oars or propellers. His dress is fashionable but ragged. In the background are trees and a church."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state of similar composition.
Alternative Title:
Itinerant aeronaut
Description:
Eight lines of verse below title: Behold an hero comely tall and fair! His only food phlogisticated air! ..., Later state, with plate shortened on bottom edge resulting in loss of imprint. Cf. No. 6858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Printmaker and date from earlier state in British Museum catalogue., and Title from caption below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Lunardi, Vincent,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"The Duke of Richmond (left) sleeps in an arm-chair beside a table on which are playing-cards and bits of broken tobacco-pipes arranged to represent fortifications. On the right are two cannons, one on a gun-carriage ; a cat sits on its muzzle miaowing at Richmond, one paw on the table. By his side (left) are plans on rollers and a box of long tobacco-pipes. On the wall hang two pictures on rollers as if they were plans. In one (left) soldiers with wheelbarrows, &c. work on the sea-shore, off which dismantled ships lie at anchor. In the other, cannons and cannon-balls with one sentry lie along the sea-shore, off which are ships at anchor with brooms at their mast-heads to show that they are for sale. Richmond's hat, overcoat, and sword hang on the wall between the two pictures. At his feet is an open book inscribed 'Trial of Colol Debbeig'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Planing of fortifications and Planning of fortifications
Description:
Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Cards -- House of Cards -- Card players -- Bill to fortify Portsmouth -- Fortifications -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Pipes -- Matches -- Pets -- Cats., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Richmond, Charles Lennox,--3d Duke of,--1735-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Five elderly barristers are grouped round an oblong table on which are writing-materials; all wear large tie-wigs. The client sits 'chapeau-bras', hands on knees, in an arm-chair (left), listening with gaping mouth and stupidly eager expression. He appears to be a boorish country gentleman in London dress. The counsel beside him reads from a large document: 'Know all men by these presents'. Another also reads. Two others watch and listen with cynical intentness. The fifth (right), an aged man wearing gauntlet gloves, sits with closed eyes in an arm-chair facing the client. On the wall are pinned legal notices: 'Court of Kings Bench Dn Common Pleas ... [&c.]'. Heavy folios lie open on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Rowlandson's works., Reissue of a plate published by W. Hunter on 21 December 1785. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 173., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"A crowded scene in a bare room giving access to the theatre, which is seen through two open doors (right), each showing two boxes, and a section of gallery above, filled with spectators. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected and addressed by the loungers. The centre figure is George Hanger in profile to the left, his club under his arm, arms folded, staring at a bold and handsome girl who stands with another pretty young woman. A man in deep shadow seizes Hanger's bunch of seals. Two elderly men address a fat bawd who holds a basket of fruit and playbills; a coin is placed in her hand. A misshapen elderly beau (not, as Grego suggests, Sir L. Skeffington, b. 1771), looking through a quizzing-glass, steps on an irate lady's dress (right). On the wall is a large play-bill: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden \ Way of the World \ Who's the Dupe'. The room is lit from bracket lamps high on the right wall, diagonal shadows are thrown across the room, some of the figures are brilliantly lit, others in shadow."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"Mrs. Thrale (Piozzi) and Boswell are in heated argument: she (left) advances upon Boswell with her hands on her hips; he stamps violently and clenches his fists. An elderly man seated in an armchair looks at them in alarm, raising his hand in admonition. He is Sir John Hawkins: the 'rival wits' have agreed to let him 'Declare the prop'rest pen to write Sam's Life.' Beside him a 'cello leans against the wall, emblem perhaps of Sir John's interest in music, perhaps of Mrs. Thrale's marriage to Piozzi. Three shelves of books are above his head; the highest is filled with large volumes covered with a cobweb, one inscribed 'History of Musi[c]' ... Behind the two disputants is a draped sash-window. Beneath each part of the title a quotation from the verses is engraved: '[1] Who, madning with an Anecdotic Itch, Hath said that Johnson call'd his Mother, B-tch?' Boswell taunts Mrs. Thrale with her anecdote of Johnson's answer to his mother when she called him a puppy. '[2] Who, from Macdonald's Rage, to save his snout, Cut twenty lines of defamation, out?' She retorts with the slander which Boswell denied."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Madame Piozzi
Description:
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Bozzy and Piozzi, or, The British biographers. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1786], Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Boswell, James,--1740-1795--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hawkins, John,--1719-1789--Caricatures and cartoons., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A mail-coach, driven right to left, is overturning, the off back wheel having fallen off. The near horse is falling, the other rears violently. The driver has dropped the reins and holds up his arms; he is hidden by the guard seated on his left who falls backwards, his blunderbuss is going off and shatters the roof of the coach, causing letters and letter-bags to fly into the air. A pistol at his side is also going off; it fires point-blank at the bare posteriors of an elderly woman who has fallen head downwards, screaming, her person much exposed; she was apparently an outside passenger. A man puts his head and arms out of the coach-window, shouting in terror. On the centre panel of the coach and above the Royal Arms is inscribed 'The Mail Coach'; on each side panel, 'GR'. In the background (right) is a signpost pointing to the left, 'To Bath'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Persons and property protected
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, Carracature Ware-House, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Werther--Parodies, imitations, etc., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97860707, and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Couples. , Courtship., Dogs., Servants., and Tea parties.
"Two officers of high rank sit together in a cabin, gambling intently at cup (actually spike) and ball. One (left) wears a star; the other, who is older and stouter, watches the dangling ball held by his companion. At their feet is a pile of coins on papers inscribed 'Twenty Pound'. Under the former's foot is a plan of 'Fotification [sic]', under the latter's a large wall-plan of the disposition of a fleet, on which land and 'Ocean' are marked. On the broad many-paned window behind them hangs ramed plan of celestial and terrestrial globes inscribed respectively 'Celiastial' and 'Teristial'. Behind (right), a burly sailor pours out tea for the two effeminate officers, with an expression of pained contempt."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
Description:
Final words of burnished imprint statement barely visible below title: [...?] Oxford Street., Later state, with title altered and imprint statement burnished out, of a print published in 1785 with the title: Sea amusement, or, Commanders-in-Chief of cup and ball on a cruise. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 176-8., Probably published before 1802, when the imprint "Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly" was added and the plate reissued. Cf. No. 9875 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
