"Skaters have fallen upon breaking ice, some lie flat; heads and legs and arms emerge in wild confusion. In the middle distance (right) two skaters, one a parson, flee headlong from the danger-spot. On the shore (left) three men stand watching the cat...
"A gross, coarse-featured man (half-length) in old-fashioned dress and wig, scowls through a double eye-glass at a picture on an easel."--British Museum online catalogue
"Half length portrait of a handsome barrister in profile to the left, making an impassioned appeal, his brief in the left hand."--British Museum catalogue
A rider sits stiffly on a misshapen horse that wears blinkers. The rider's stirrups almost touch the ground, and his body and legs form a quasi-vertical line from head to heels. Above his hat is a dotted half circle labeled '90 degrees'. On the right ...
Description:
Title etched below image; series title etched above image.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. An ugly foppish apothecary, with drink-blotched profile, kneels at the feet of a handsome young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on whic...
"Scene within the drawing school at the Royal Academy; a male life model poses while the academicians sit in a semi circle drawing, a large lamp above model directs light onto the subject; busts and other sculptures line walls of the room."--British M...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jany. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) and Somerset House (London, England)
"Half length portrait of a grossly fat Dutchman in profile to the left, smoking a short pipe, and with a second pipe in his hat. 'He looks upon money to be the greatest good upon earth, and pickled herring the greatest dainty'."--British Museum catalo...
