Illustration at the top of the letterpress broadside. "Mrs. Siddons leans back in her chair, majestically resentful. She addresses Harris, [Grego suggests Topham, whom he does not resemble, and who was living in Yorkshire.] patentee and manager of Cov...
Alternative Title:
Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below etching.
Publisher:
Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, for Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, sho...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Melville, in Highland dress (left), stoops, holding open a sack from which issues an endless procession of pigmy Scots, receding in perspective to disappear under a high Gothic doorway, inscribed 'Saint Stephens'. The little Scots march out of the ba...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Maccree, opening his new budget
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1st July, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Saint Stephens (ed. and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Clothing & dress
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned...
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Below the title: 'The Woman who shews General Guise collection of Pictures at Oxford'. She stands directed to the left., holding a pointer with which she slyly points to a picture of Suzanna and the Elders. She is old and grotesquely ugly, wearing a ...
"Five elderly, old-fashioned doctors stand in consultation in a row behind Napoleon (r.), who vomits, saying, "My Dear Doctors! those sacre Anglois have play'd the Devil vun [?] my constitution pray tell me what is the matter with me, I felt the first...
Alternative Title:
Nap Buonaparte in a fever on recieving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets and Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 20 March 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Dogs, Eyeglasses, Fishing, and Pipes (Smoking)
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two pilgrims meet, one (left) debonair and jaunty, the other in a crouching position, and with an anguished expression. Both wear hats turned up with cockle shells, and necklaces hung with shells, long belted gowns with rosaries. Each holds a staff s...
