"The interior of Sir Robert Taylor's rotunda in the Bank of England when it was used as a stock exchange with the arc of the pilastered wall and part of the domed ceiling forming a background. The floor is covered with groups of small figures, only three ladies among them, who are drawn realistically with a certain humourous intention. On the left is a Jew who talks to a fashionable young man in top-boots. On the right a man wearing a cocked hat and holding a staff and waving a rattle stands above a crowd of excited bidders. On the wall above his head is the notice: 'No clerk to act as broker.' Behind is a table at which men stand to write. On the wall above it is the inscription: Navy &c. £5 pr. ctr. amnt."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 306., For an earlier state before the addition of Fores's name at the end of imprint, see no. 8204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson, Strand & S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bank of England., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Banks., Crowds., Interiors., Jews., Pilasters., Rotundas., and Stock exchanges--England.
"A young woman holds a little girl on her lap; an ugly elderly man (three-quarter length) leans towards the child, holding a piece of sugar between his lips. The child looks up delightedly. On a table beside them (right) is a tray of tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state of similar composition.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Rowlandson, Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title etched below image., and Two lines of text below title: The horrid and inhuman murderer of Mrs. Hummerstone and Mrs. Warner at the house of Mr. Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire on Tuesday eveninig, October 20th, 1807.
"A grotesque old maid having woken at night, the open door of her bedroom behind at left, approaching the foot of a staircase with a candle, only partly dressed and with her bosom hanging outside her dress, led on by a cat; above at left, the young niece appearing at her own bedroom door as if only just awake, her lover escaping in his nightshirt up the stairs at right; at the foot of the stairs, a paper lettered 'Old maids are doomed to lead apes in hell'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title, printmaker and imprint from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
