Two prostitutes stand on a street identified as the notorious Gunpowder Alley; the one woman on the right with crossed-arms turns her head to talk to a short man. On the left, a man in a shop with a sign over the door "Booth's Best British Gin" pours a glass for a woman who stands at the counter. On the wall behind the two women are posters: "Leakes slavation exploded one small pill is a dose ..." and "Globe Insuranc. Lives & Property saved from Fire."
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.8 x 24.1 cm., Bottom left corner of sheet missing., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law". In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer; between his legs sits a large cat. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle in one hand sniffs at another bottle. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication dates from Grego. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 58, 214., Artist from earlier print of which this is a reduced copy. See no. 7452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge, and text erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Additional shading added in pencil to lower left corner of design.
"A lady (left) darts forward in profile to the right, bending low, both arms extended towards a coal-scuttle which a footman in livery is bringing in. He looks at her with irritated dismay. She says: "O You pretty creature! - bless the dear baby, how it smiles give it to me Nurse - it has exactly its papa's nose & mamma's eyes. O it is a delightful little Creature." She wears a plain striped gown with a sash, a high-crowned hat of checked material; ringlets fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Short sighted mistake
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1792., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '20' in the lower left corner., A reduced copy of no. 8211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: coal scuttles -- Domestic service: footmen.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: vestry -- Poverty -- Families -- Churchwardens., and Mounted to 17 x 23 cm.
Leaf 80. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of five clergymen over-indulging with food and drink in the Vestry room. They sit around a large table drinking, one member, with his foot bound with gout sits with his back to the viewer. On the left a footman kicks away a family of beggars from the door and towards the Workhouse, a sign for which may be seen in the background. A line of more malnourished beggars can be seen outside the window of the Vestry."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810639., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 58., and On leaf 80 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"Frontispiece to 'All the Talents', 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus', i.e. E. S. Barrett, attacking the late Ministry. The print (Hogarthian in manner) has little relation to the verses, and is probably adapted from an earlier satire, perhaps on Bute. A creature with the body of a man and the face of an ape, with a tail, tramples on burning papers. It wears spectacles, a large wig, bands, old-fashioned laced coat (with a star), and tattered breeches. On one foot is a shoe; the left. leg is in a large jack-boot (? originally an emblem of Bute). In the right hand is a crozier with which he pulls down two books from a shelf: 'Magna Charter' and 'Coronation Oath'. Behind him a musket inscribed 'Army', the barrel pointing upwards, is firing a blast at the falling books. His left hand rests on a book or ledger, open on a book-stand, in which he writes with the feathered end of his pen. The page is headed 'Finance'; from the book hangs a paper: 'Country Dances'. The burning papers are inscribed 'Negotiation' [bis], 'Sinecures'. He is smoking a pipe from which thick clouds of smoke rise and obscure a profile bust portrait of Pitt. Below the design: 'Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.'."--British Museum online catalogue and British Museum curator's comments: The monster symbolizes the blind and reckless politician. The verses, though published after the fall of the Ministry ... were written before it, and do not allude to the Catholic question, here indicated by the treatment of the 'Coronation Oath'. Nor are the peace negotiations, ... directly referred to. They contain a tribute to Pitt, and gibes at Petty, ... here illustrated. They went through nineteen editions in 1807 ....
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: All the Talents, 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus.', Lettered below title with a line from Virgil (Aeniad, III, 658): Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 18th, 1807, by I. I. Stockdale, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Apes, and Pipes (Smoking)
"An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Reissue, with year in imprint altered from "1806" to "1812." For original issue, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8., Verses etched beneath title: Now the weather's sultry grown, sweating late and early. Better far too [sic] sweat alone, oh we swelter rarely - Sweating here, sweating there., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and married life., Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 12 of 14 volumes., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.1 x 28.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of verses from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Spouses, Marriage, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
"An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed with partial loss of imprint. Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Couples, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
