"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.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Foreign opinion, British.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Ownership., Fuchs, Eduard,--1870-1940--Stamp., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Cats., Children., Couples. , Dance., Dogs., and Interiors.
"Five elderly barristers are grouped round an oblong table on which are writing-materials; all wear large tie-wigs. The client sits 'chapeau-bras', hands on knees, in an arm-chair (left), listening with gaping mouth and stupidly eager expression. He appears to be a boorish country gentleman in London dress. The counsel beside him reads from a large document: 'Know all men by these presents'. Another also reads. Two others watch and listen with cynical intentness. The fifth (right), an aged man wearing gauntlet gloves, sits with closed eyes in an arm-chair facing the client. On the wall are pinned legal notices: 'Court of Kings Bench Dn Common Pleas ... [&c.]'. Heavy folios lie open on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Rowlandson's works., Reissue of a plate published by W. Hunter on 21 December 1785. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 173., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"[Left image] The Prince of Wales (right), wearing his star, kneels at the feet of a lady (left), his right hand holds her left hand, his left hand is on his breast. The lady wears a large feathered hat and has some resemblance to the Duchess of Devonshire, cf. BMSat 6263, &c, none to Mrs. Fitzherbert. [Right image] A sailor with a wooden leg and a good-looking young woman of meretricious appearance sit side by side on a barrel; he pours wine into a glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition.
Alternative Title:
Courtship in low life.
Description:
Also attributed to Rowlandson by Grego and the British Museum catalogue., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 170-1., Reissue, with new publication line, of a print originally issued 15 December 1785. Cf. Nos. 6870, and 6871 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Titles etched below images., and Two images on one plate, each individually titled.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
Four lines of text in two columns below design: Dead to the raptures of a wedded life ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
"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:
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,1113.254., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
