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1. A French family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 November 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.11.05.04++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A French family [graphic]
2. An Italian family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [December 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.12.00.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man plays an enormous 'cello. To his left a middle-aged man, seated in profile singing, plays a low harpsichord; he wears open ruffled shirt and breeches, with bare legs. Beside him on the extreme left a little boy dressed in a shirt plays the violin. On the extreme right a pretty young woman sits over the fire with an infant on her knee; she holds out a cloth to dry, looking over her shoulder to sing. Her score ('Affetuoso') is pinned to the chimney-piece, on which stands a crucifix with a tankard, &c. A lean greyhound howls up the chimney. All but the old man have fashionably dressed hair, and a certain elegance. The room is lit from an open casement window (left); there are dark cast shadows and the bare room has no ceiling. On the wall are a print of 'Vestris' dancing, a sword, a play-bill: 'l'Avaro Deluso' (opera by Paisiello, libretto by Vulpius), and a bunch of farthing dips; on the window ledge a cracked mirror, cocked hat, bottles, &c. Beneath the harpsichord is a large bowl labeled 'Macaroni'; and in the foreground lie a violin, music-books, earthenware pots, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Italian family [graphic]
3. Bookseller & author [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 September 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.09.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stands nervously with his hat tucked under his arm. A clergyman with spectacles, his back to the two other gentlemen, perusing the shelves, stops to examine a volume. In the left foreground on the floor, in front of a library step stool, is a pile of books. Another pile of books lies in the right foreground in front of a door with a glass panel and curtains in the top half. To the left of the door is a slooping writing table with paper, ink stand, and pen
- Alternative Title:
- Bookseller and author
- Description:
- Title from item. and Attributed by Grego and George to Rowlandson who occasionally published under Henry Wigstead's name.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Bookstores, Clergy, and Publishers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bookseller & author [graphic]
4. Different sensations [graphic] / T. Rowlandson delt. ; S. Alken fecit
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 October 1789]
- Call Number:
- 790.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A hand-coloured plate divided into four compartments. Waiting for Dinner: an impatient diner shows his servant the time as the servant uncorks a bottle; At Dinner: a man heartily eats as the servant pours wine; After Dinner: A man leans back in his chair as a maid clears the table; Preparing for Supper: A maid puts a napkin on a diner who is guided into his chair by a servant."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from collective title etched at bottom of plate., Artist signature below lower left design; printmaker signature below lower right design., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled within an etched and aquatinted border., Description based on impression in the Royal Collection, RCIN 810354., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored; sheet 21 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; only lower left design entitled "After dinner" present. The three other designs on plate, the collective title, and the imprint statement have been trimmed from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 22, 1789, by S. Alken, No. 2 Francis Street East, Bedford Square
- Subject (Topic):
- Bottles, Bowls (Tableware), Dining rooms, Fireplaces, Glassware, Interiors, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), Stairways, Tableware, Tobacco, Wine, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Different sensations [graphic] / T. Rowlandson delt. ; S. Alken fecit
5. The bachelor. "Dead to the raptures of a wedded life ..." / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 March 1790]
- Call Number:
- Print20068
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Companion to print, "The Married Man," Print10055., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Leakes Pills.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March, 18, 1790 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Bachelors, Single men, Domestic life, Boredom, Servants, Eating & drinking, Chamber pots, Cats, Medicines, and Fireplaces
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The bachelor. "Dead to the raptures of a wedded life ..." / [graphic]
6. The consultation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Print00194
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Six doughty doctors standing together in discussion, wearing wigs, tailcoats and carrying tricorne hats and walking canes; one at left thoughtfully taps his mouth with the handle of his cane, one at centre, seen from behind, holds his hat behind his back in both hands, a sword at his side; another at right leans forward solidly, resting his folded arms on his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Probably a later state of the plate, with additional aquatint shading added. For a probable earlier state with the imprint "London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken ....", see Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.100., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,1113.254., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultation., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 272 x 332 mm., and Mounted; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The consultation [graphic]
7. The consultation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.22+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Six doughty doctors standing together in discussion, wearing wigs, tailcoats and carrying tricorne hats and walking canes; one at left thoughtfully taps his mouth with the handle of his cane, one at centre, seen from behind, holds his hat behind his back in both hands, a sword at his side; another at right leans forward solidly, resting his folded arms on his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Probably a later state of the plate, with additional aquatint shading added. For a probable earlier state with the imprint "London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken ....", see Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.100., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,1113.254., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultation.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The consultation [graphic]
8. The married man [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 March 1790]
- Call Number:
- Print10055
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse below title: When Hymen joins the lover and the fair, Love spreads his guarding pinions o'er the pair ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage, Families, Spouses, Children, Dogs, Interiors, Fireplaces, Windows, and Stringed instruments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The married man [graphic]
