A tour guide leading two men with astonished looks on their caricatured faces (one holds a simple walking stick and his hat) and a fashionably dressed women through Westminster Abbey, points to a monument decorated with the effigies of three knights
Description:
Title etched below image., Former questionable attribution to Newton from local card catalog record., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admitce. 1 shillg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36.1 x 27 cm., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Westminster Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Staffs (Sticks), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Tour guides, and Tourists
A tour guide leading two men with astonished looks on their caricatured faces (one holds a simple walking stick and his hat) and a fashionably dressed women through Westminster Abbey, points to a monument decorated with the effigies of three knights
Description:
Title etched below image., Former questionable attribution to Newton from local card catalog record., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admitce. 1 shillg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 38 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 38.9 x 28.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Westminster Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Staffs (Sticks), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Tour guides, and Tourists
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 12 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
"Pitt, very drunk, leans against the wall of a room, his right arm rests on a map inscribed 'Gold Coast Bengal'; he points to the former name, saying, "de Claret - Claret - Claret - Tory - tory - tory." His chair (right) has been overturned, under his feet are papers inscribed 'List of India Directors'; in his left hand is the 'de-Claretory Bill'. On a table (left) are wine-glasses and a decanter of Claret, empty bottles lie on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Kingsbury from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Walpole refers to subject of print -- Tablecloth of green baize -- Maps: Bengal -- Declaratory Bill., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 19.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Marh. 17, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, p. 262, Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from Grego., Companion print to: Chealsea Reach., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Boat or ship -- Storms -- Reference to Bay of Biscay., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.5 x 27 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Chelsea Reach
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum., Companion print to: Bay of Biscay., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.6 x 27 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
"Two designs on one plate. Above, a group of spectators seated in a gallery and watching a comedy, all intent and either amused or surprised. Below, a similar group, all of whom weep or look distressed. A man holds a smelling-bottle to a lady's nose (right). A play-bill is inscribed 'Romeo and Juliet' (reversed)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Each title etched below corresponding image., Printmaker signature etched within top image in bottom right; imprint statement etched within lower image in bottom right., Reissue of a plate originally published by T. Rowlandson in 1787; publisher name changed in imprint statement and the year in printmaker signature and imprint changed from "1787" to "1789". Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist v. 1, pages 217-19., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 37.2 x 27 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs, Octr. 8th 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Theater audiences, Children, Fans (Accessories), Monocles, Loss of consciousness, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A youth walks right to left, but looking to front, holding a long stick or staff. His hair hangs loosely on his shoulders, his dress is careless, with shirt open at the neck, breeches unbuttoned at the knees, and the buckles of his shoes unlatched."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Companion print to: London refinement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.2 x 16.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jan. 1, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.7 x 20 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
