A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Rumsford [Coxheath]. She is followed by her husband who is dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces which were frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
Description:
Title from text inscribed in contemporary hand on verso., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching after this drawing., The signpost depicted in the drawing reads 'Rumford' while the Bretherton etching changes the text to 'Coxheath', and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, Militias, and Dogs
A man on horseback struggles to maintain control of his horse as it rears its hind legs, sending a boy scrambling away in the foreground on the right. In the background, another man looks on and grins at the prank he has played with his stick in the horse's tail; he stands in front of a building (an inn?) with a sign hanging above the entrance
Alternative Title:
Boots gets his revenge
Description:
Title from inscription., Attribution to Bunbury from inscription on verso, which notes that the drawing was presented to Lord Harrington., Two line inscription in ink across lower margin: Hard hearted Grower gives poor Boots his due, Or Boots at posting has a Rig for you - Anon., and Probably the original design for a print entitled "Tricks upon travellers," an illustration to Annals of horsemanship (London : W. Dickinson, 1791).
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Kicking, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Watercolor drawing that provides a view from the back window of a house on the west side of St Martin’s Lane and shows the buildings running behind St Martin’s Lane. Identifiable on the right of the image is the building occupied by the bookseller John Noble, as Sandby has included his shop sign, a bust of Dryden, placed over his door and a trade sign advertising his circulating library. In the projecting bay-window to the right of the composition, a man can be seen at work
Description:
Title and date from dealer's description. and See Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, Recent Acquisitions, 2019/2020, pp. 46-49. fuller description and history.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Cityscape drawings, Neighborhood, Signs (Notices), and Stores & shops
A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Coxheath. She is followed by her husband, dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces that frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
Alternative Title:
Sir Horatio Mann returning from Linton to Barham Court having lost his way, is escorted by a farmer's wife returning from Maidstone market
Description:
Title devised by cataloger based on title of published print based on this drawing., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching., A pen and ink copy of an etching after Bunbury., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, British, Militias, and Dogs
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764. and [printed 1820s?]
Call Number:
Paulson 764.03.03.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
Alternative Title:
Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
Description:
Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., and Restrike on wove paper, likely printed in the 1820s or later. Level of plate wear is slightly less than that seen on impressions issued in: The works of William Hogarth, from the original plates restored by James Heath. London : Printed for Baldwin and Cradock ... by G. Woodfall ..., [1835-37].
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"A struggling crowd, partly within and partly without the pit door, a spiked gateway, of Drury Lane Theatre. Men, respectably dressed but of plebeian appearance, stand in the foreground on the outskirts of the crowd or fight their way in, some with sticks. There are a few women; one who has fainted but is in an erect position owing to the crowd, is being revived with smelling-salts. A man is vomiting. In the foreground two lady's hats, the ribbons partly torn off, lie on the ground with shoes and the broken fragments of a shoe-buckle. In the background two ladies and a man are passing through a narrow door into the theatre itself; through the doorway is seen a section of an upper gallery and boxes below it, both crowded. On the exterior wall, above the heads of the crowd, is a playbill ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
Alternative Title:
Porte du parterre
Description:
Title from related print, which bears both the English title "The pit door" and the French title "La porte du parterre"., Unsigned and undated; artist attribution and approximate date from those assigned to the related print in the British Museum catalogue. See no. 6769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Inscribed on poster in upper center portion of image: By Command of their MAJESTIES. At the Theatre Royal Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter And Euphrasia Mrs Siddons To which will be added The Devil to Pay Tomorrow the Tragedy of Hamlet HAMLET by MR KEMBLE., and Laid down on wove paper with watermark "B. E. & S."
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Crowds, Gates, Doors & doorways, Vomiting, Loss of consciousness, and Signs (Notices)
