"A fat and ugly lady (left) and a young and pretty one (right) are being dressed for a Birthday at St. James's. A huge wig decked with feathers and roses is being placed by a maid on the bald head of the elder lady, who stands holding a bouquet and looking in a mirror which reflects a delighted grin. A little black page supports the mirror; he turns to a dog which fawns on him. Another maid fastens in front a false 'derrière', which will distend her dress below the waist, see BMSat 7100, &c. The girl is seated; a friseur dresses her long hair; a man-milliner, 'chapeau-bras', prepares to adjust a 'derrière'; she touches approvingly the dress which an ugly old woman wearing a hat holds out to her. On the floor is a round box containing roses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed and dated by Rowlandson in lower right corner of design; second statement of responsibility etched below image in lower left., For later state published by S.W. Fores, on 3 March 1789, see no. 9678 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Companion print to: Dressing for a masquerade., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 272., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 3, 1788, by F. Chesham & M. Hatton, No. 32 Pall Mall
"A fat and ugly lady (left) and a young and pretty one (right) are being dressed for a Birthday at St. James's. A huge wig decked with feathers and roses is being placed by a maid on the bald head of the elder lady, who stands holding a bouquet and looking in a mirror which reflects a delighted grin. A little black page supports the mirror; he turns to a dog which fawns on him. Another maid fastens in front a false 'derrière', which will distend her dress below the waist, see BMSat 7100, &c. The girl is seated; a friseur dresses her long hair; a man-milliner, 'chapeau-bras', prepares to adjust a 'derrière'; she touches approvingly the dress which an ugly old woman wearing a hat holds out to her. On the floor is a round box containing roses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed and dated by Rowlandson in lower right corner of design; second statement of responsibility etched below image in lower left., For later state published by S.W. Fores, on 3 March 1789, see no. 9678 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Companion print to: Dressing for a masquerade., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 272., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 33.2 x 45.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 3, 1788, by F. Chesham & M. Hatton, No. 32 Pall Mall
Title etched within image., 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 7 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Arrivals & departures, Boats, Beaches, Anchors, and Luggage
"Design in two strips; the upper, eight bored and gloomy Englishmen fidgetting uncomfortably in armchairs, one yawning, one contemplating a dagger with a discarded copy of Goethe's 'Werter' at his feet, another firing a pistol at his jaw; the lower, seven Frenchmen joyously celebrating, one dancing, one setting out to a hunt, another stroking a dog wearing a cape and with its paws in a muff, a fat monk partaking of victuals."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state with similar composition
Description:
Titles etched below each image., Printmaker from signature on later state., Plate reissued by S.W. Fores on 25 November 1788., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For reduced versions of the two images, published in 1790 in Hibernian magazine, see nos. 7764-5 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 392., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publishd. May 1, 1788, by T. Rowlandson, No. 50 Poland Street
"Design in two strips; the upper, eight bored and gloomy Englishmen fidgetting uncomfortably in armchairs, one yawning, one contemplating a dagger with a discarded copy of Goethe's 'Werter' at his feet, another firing a pistol at his jaw; the lower, seven Frenchmen joyously celebrating, one dancing, one setting out to a hunt, another stroking a dog wearing a cape and with its paws in a muff, a fat monk partaking of victuals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles from text etched below each image., Statement of responsibilty etched below top image; publication line etched below bottom image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For reduced versions of the two images, published in 1790 in Hibernian magazine, see nos. 7764-5 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 25, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The Prince of Wales, seated in a ramshackle state coach, is drawn (left to right) by eight miserable hacks; the procession is watched by Ministers and others from windows. On the coach door are the Prince's feathers, upside-down. One wheel is broken, the hammer-cloth is ragged; the harness consists partly of rope, partly of chains; the horses are of grotesquely varying sizes and breeds, on one is a saddle. The one dishevelled postilion raises his whip to lash the off-leader, a veritable skeleton, which falls on its knees. The coachman and the two footmen behind the coach are lean and unsuitably dressed. An angry crowd follows the coach ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Picture of English magnificence!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson in British Museum catalogue and Grego., Publisher's advertisment below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of political and other humorous prints. Admttance [sic] one shilling., Sheet trimmed to within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two large sets of monogrammed initials written in pencil in lower right, possibly in contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, La Luzerne, Anne-César, chevalier de, 1741-1791, Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of, 1756-1835
"A procession of seven men riding galloping bulls; the leader (right) is a bishop (St. Patrick) wearing a mitre and carrying a cross; he has a beard, and says, "Make haste, my dear Honeys". The others are the six 'ambassadors'; all wear fool's caps, all flourish shillelaghs, and all carry sacks of potatoes at their backs. Their leader, who wears a ducal coronet, says "No Restrictions, by the Holy Cross of St Patrick!!!" His sack is labelled 'Leinster potatoes'. Next, wearing an earl's coronet, is Charlemont; he stoops over his bull's neck, saying, "We'll let the English see what Upright Members we have in Ireland; never lose an Inch in any Engagement!" His sack is labelled 'Ulster Potatoes'. The next 'Ambassador' says, "Christ Jasus how our majority will astonish the young King". The bull of the next man snorts and kicks ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue., Date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisment in lower right: In a few days will be pubd. The return of the embassadors [sic]., Companion print to: The ambassadors extraordinary return on bulls without horns., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799, Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, and Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
"An ugly and elderly naval officer (left) puts his left arm round the shoulder of a pretty young woman, who puts her left hand on his left hand, taking with her right hand the purse which he offers. He has a wooden leg and a patch over his right eye; under his right arm is a stick."--British Museum online catalogue, description of variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from descriptions of variant states in Grego and British Museum catalogue., For variant state lacking S.W. Fores imprint statement, see no. 7442 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Traces of burnished text visible at end of Wm. Rowlandson imprint statement. For probable earlier state with longer imprint statement and possibly the variant title "Luxury and desire," see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 237., Wm. Rowlandson imprint statement etched in lower left corner of design; S.W. Fores imprint statement etched below image., Companion print to: Lust and avarice., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 37.3 x 26.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1788, by Wm. Rowlandson, No. 49 and Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
