Title from item., Artist from the Sotheby's catalog and Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Variant issue of No. 7792 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Expressions of speech: 'a deep one' -- Bludgeons., and Mounted to 25 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 21, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
Alternative Title:
Drap of whiskey
Description:
Title written in ink beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "404" in ink in lower left., and For the related print, published by Bowles & Carver, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1738.
A exciseman stands in profile facing to the left. His lower lip protrudes, and his chest is thrown out
Description:
Title inscribed in ink, lower right: Jack in office., Attributed to Dighton based on published print of the same title., Date based on publication date. Original sketch of British Museum 8395A?, Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and Watermark.
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, Excise tax, Inkstands, and Taxes
Title from item., Publication date and the text, 'Published as the Act directs' removed from the plate. Date from British Museum catalogue., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Series number removed from the plate. Numbered '543' in series. Cf. British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Compass (instrument for drawing) -- Masons -- Farmyards -- Harvesting -- Fishing -- Mill-wheels -- Windmills -- Country churches -- Bags of money -- Shipwrecks -- Gambling -- Drunkenness -- Jails -- Gallows -- Male costume, 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom
Alternative Title:
Lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall and Peep into the Court of Kings Bench
Description:
Title "A peep into the Court of Kings Bench" written in lower margin but scored through; a new title "Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall" is written below in the same hand., Signed by the artist in lower right corner of image., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., and Numbered "557" beneath lower left corner of image.
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, Lawyers, Judges, and Juries
A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "407" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
A couple holding hands lean toward each other as they gaze into one another's eyes with affection
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "406" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
A series of six drawings illustrating the story of The prodigal son. The six scenes include: The prodigal son receives his patrimony; the prodigal son takes leave of his father; the prodigal son drinking and reveling in the company of harlots; the prodigal son destitute, seated in the countryside watching pigs eat at a trough; the prodigal son returns to his father's home and is embraced, at harvest time; the prodigal son at a feasting at the family table, in celebration of his return. Musicians play their instruments in the gallery above
Alternative Title:
Prodigal son
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Robert Dighton., Oval images (11.0 x 15.3 cm) drawn on rectangular sheets laid paper (12.5 x 16.5 cm), one with a partial watermark, tipped-in to 19th century album leaves; bound in later (probably 20th century) antique-style half morocco over marbled boards, with red morocco title 'Prodigal Son' to spine., and For further information, consult library staff.
