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1. Sir Fopling arrested drawn from a late real scene / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.00.00.08.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A laughing well-dressed man looks through a large round glass, his left hand in his pocket. A bailiff, standing to his left, puts his hand on the man's left arm while presenting him with a writ. In the background is a large, four-story building in front of which stands a sedan chair. From a building across the street hangs a large sign with Shakespeare's likeness, signed 'Shakespear.'
- Description:
- Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Sir Fopling Flutter through his glass inspects the ladies as they pass ..., Lewis Walpole Library 769.00.00.08.1+: Subject identified in a later ms. note below plate as Charles Fleetwood, Manager of Drury Lane Theatre., and Temporary local subject terms: Eye-glasses: quizzing glass - Slang: 'fopling' -- Bailiffs -- Signboards -- Allusion to William Shakespeare -- Documents: writs -- Vehicles: sedan chair -- Literature: reference to The man of mode, or, Sr. Fopling Flutter by Sir George Etherege. 1635?-1691.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act in 1769, by John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Name):
- Fleetwood, Charles, -1747,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Fopling arrested drawn from a late real scene / [graphic]
2. Sir Fopling arrested drawn from a late real scene / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1769?]
- Call Number:
- 769.00.00.18+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A laughing well-dressed man looks through a large round glass, his left hand in his pocket. A bailiff, standing to his left, puts his hand on the man's left arm while presenting him with a writ. In the background is a large, four-story building in front of which stands a sedan chair. From a building across the street hangs a large sign with Shakespeare's likeness, signed 'Shakespear.'
- Description:
- Title from item., Also published in 1769 by Carington Bowles., Publication date burnished from plate. Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles printing of 1769., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Sir Fopling Flutter through his glass inspects the ladies as they pass ..., Identification of the subject as Charles Fleetwood, Manager of Drury Lane Theatre considered dubious by Chaloner Smith. See reference to another state in British mezzotinto portraits ... / by John Chaloner Smith. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883, v.1, p. 217, no. 36, and Temporary local subject terms: Eye-glasses: quizzing glass - Slang: 'fopling' -- Bailiffs -- Signboards -- Allusion to William Shakespeare -- Documents: writs -- Vehicles: sedan chair -- Literature: reference to The man of mode, or, Sr. Fopling Flutter by Sir George Etherege. 1635?-1691.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fleetwood, Charles, -1747
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Fopling arrested drawn from a late real scene / [graphic]
3. The old beau in an extasy [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.07.13.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns, one on each side of title: Behold this wretch! A fop at sixty two, a true conceited, ugly, worn out beau ..., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Old men -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Domestic service: valet -- Furniture: hanging bookcase -- Dressing table -- Mirror stand -- Cosmetics -- Wigs: toupée wig with queue -- Pictures amplifying subject: Narcissus admiring his own image in the stream -- Clocks -- Emblems: window curtain tassel as a fool's cap., and Publication date erased from this impression.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old beau in an extasy [graphic]
4. The pease-soup eater, or, Pain and laughter [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1764]
- Call Number:
- 764.00.00.74+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Pain and laughter
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date probably after 1764, when Carington Bowles removed his business from Cornhil. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p.25-26, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Families -- Children: toddlers -- Dress: peasant dress, ca. 1771 -- Dishes: bowls -- Cutlery: spoons -- Food: pease-soup .
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The pease-soup eater, or, Pain and laughter [graphic]
5. [Portrait of Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Crewe] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 September 1782]
- Call Number:
- Drawer Portraits C927 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., State from British mezzotinto portraits., After Joshua Reynolds's painting, ca. 1766., and Numbered in manuscript upper left: 75. Printed on gilt-edged paper.
- Publisher:
- Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Crewe, Emma and Hinchliffe, Elizabeth Crewe,
- Subject (Topic):
- Sisters and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Crewe] [graphic]
