"Two medallions placed side by side illustrate 'British Liberty' and 'French Liberty', these titles being inscribed on the borders of the medallions. [1] Britannia seated in profile to the right under an oak with her shield and the staff and cap of Liberty; in her right hand is 'Magna Charta', in her left she holds out the scales of Justice. The British lion crouches at her feet. Behind (right) is the sea with a ship in full sail. [2] A ragged Fury runs forward in profile to the left, trampling on a decapitated body; in her right hand is a trident on which is a bleeding head flanked by two hearts. In her left hand is a long dagger. Writhing serpents form her hair and her girdle. Behind (right) a body hangs from a lamp-bracket. Beneath each medallion is an inscription in large letters: 'Religion. Morality. Loyalty Obedience to the Laws Independance Personal Security Justice Inheritance Protection Property. Industry. National Prosperity Happiness. Atheism Periury Rebellion. Treason. Anarchy Murder Equality. Madness. Cruelty. Injustice Treachery Ingratitude Idleness Famine National & Private Ruin. Misery WHICH IS BEST?'."--British Museum online catalogue.
"A couple embracing on a couch at right are interrupted by the appearance at left of a grotesque, stout, bespectacled woman holding up a groaning moribund man wearing a shroud-like nightshirt; the young lover has his hand on a paper lettered 'last will & testament of Mr Gripe' hanging over the lid of an open money-chest, full of bags which spill onto the floor, some inscribed with sums of money, one with 'Mortgage on -'; a large, ornately framed picture of a stern man in Tudor costume on the wall behind at right, bust of a bearded man on a window-ledge at centre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Plate 2."--Lower right corner., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Willm. Holland, N. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"Scene from the Sheridan play, the characters sitting together (suggested to be portraits of Mrs Green and Quick in the roles), the Duenna a portly woman at left with wide open mouth and hands on chest, turning to Isaac who cowers from her."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Duenna and Little Isaac
Description:
Date from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate, of a print published with the imprint: London, Published April 1, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: allusion to Sheridan's The Duenna., and Title engraved below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are seated in a carriage, of the type then called 'pot de chambre', the Dauphin between and in front of them. The three galloping horses are suddenly checked by a French soldier, on horseback, and by another man beside him. A man with a dagger on the extreme left pursues the carriage. The soldier, putting his finger to his nose, leans towards the King, saying, "Aha B--gre, Croyez vous échaper comme cà". The off horse, on which the postilion is seated, falls; the man looks round shouting. The King and Queen are terror-stricken; she screams "Nous sommes tons Foutus". A servant, standing at the back of the carriage says, "Parbleu Je sens tres fort la lanterne". All have expressions of violent emotion; the Dauphin is howling. On the extreme left is a milestone: 'Sens II lieu'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Grand monarch discovered in a pot de chambre, Royal fugitives turning tail, and The grand monarck discovered in a pot de chambre
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Publication date follows "London" and precedes publisher's statement in imprint., and Titles etched below image; the word "royal" in alternative title is etched above the line, inserted with a caret.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at his Caracature Wharehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S.W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Caricatures and cartoons., and Marie Antoinette,--Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France,--1755-1793--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A young woman holds a little girl on her lap; an ugly elderly man (three-quarter length) leans towards the child, holding a piece of sugar between his lips. The child looks up delightedly. On a table beside them (right) is a tray of tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state of similar composition.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Rowlandson, Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"A young woman holds a little girl on her lap; an ugly elderly man (three-quarter length) leans towards the child, holding a piece of sugar between his lips. The child looks up delightedly. On a table beside them (right) is a tray of tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by S.W. Fores of a print originally published in 1792; original imprint of T. Rowlandson scored through and mostly burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Grandfathers -- Children -- Tea service., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smoke-like shadows: a skeleton, Death, poised just above him, raises his arrow to smite. A corpse-like half length figure offers him a pistol and a halter. A spectre with webbed wings holds out a cup. Two staring and decapitated heads glare from the shadows which fill the room. A hand raises a sword; a man with a knife is about to be stung by a serpent. A naked body (half length) falls head downwards. Above these spectres is a man (left) driving a hearse (right to left) at full gallop and looking round at the Hypochondriac. Behind the patient a good-looking woman speaks confidentially to a doctor who meditatively sucks his cane. He is dressed in an old-fashioned manner, wearing a tie-wig. A table covered with medicines stands behind the patient, who seems unconscious of the other two. A money-chest beside him suggests that he is miserly. Two landscapes hang on the wall ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state.
Description:
Companion print to: Ague & fever., Four lines of verse etched on either side of title: The mind distemper'd say, what potent charm ..., Reissue of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S.W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A hand-coloured print of a company of Paviors outside the Tun Tavern. The Paviors hold rammers resembling large bottles. A portly cleric walks over the paving with an air of solemnity during which the paviors all cheer. On the left stands a woman with a large basket on her head and another Pavior holds a cobble stone and a pick axe. Buildings and a church steeple stand in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810446.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title etched below image., and Two lines of verse below title: When J-x walks the streets, the paviors cry ...
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Musicians and dancers performing in a street, one figure holds out a hat into which a spectator drops money, another figure drops a heart (?) into another man's hat, behind the group a figure holds a banner, figures lean from the window of a Pawn Broker's shop."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Text etched below image: Humanely inscribed to all those professors of music and dancing whom the cap may fit. and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S.W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"The interior of the Pantheon, reconstructed as a theatre, seen from the stage on which, in the foreground, are two opera dancers holding garlands of roses. The house is crowded; in the foreground (left and right) are three tiers of stage-boxes filled with admiring spectators. Behind the stage are the heads and shoulders of the orchestra; a very old man on the extreme right holding a 'cello puts an ear-trumpet to his ear. Behind the orchestra is the crowded pit and in the background six tiers of boxes (there were actually four tiers, 'Lond. Chronicle', 11 Feb.); above it is a gallery in which tiny figures are indicated. In the centre of the grand tier is the royal box, in which the King (looking through an opera-glass) and Queen are seated."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Text below image: Respetfully [sic] dedicated to those singers, dancers, & musical professors, who are fortunately engaged with the proprietor of the King's Theatre, at the Pantheon., and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S.W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
