Two lines of text below title: The present fashion is the most easy and graceful imaginable ..., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB. Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1795 -- Watches -- Fashion, 1795., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Printseller's stamp in lower right below plate mark: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 9, 1795, by S. W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville, Street
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above print., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1828]
Call Number:
828.00.00.62+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "I say my fine fellow have you an idea that I look like a sportsman, eh?" ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: Not so flattering. No. 4, and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Twelfth plate in the series "Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr". Series title appears only on the first plate., and Watermark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 17 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 29.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 34.3 x 37.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Bunbury 780.03.01.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Title from item., Second state, as described in the British Museum catalogue, with price burnished out., A key to persons and objects numbered within the image provided in two columns on each side of the title., Printmaker's announcement following imprint: Note. A. Benoist teaches drawing abroad., and Watermark. 2nd sheet trimmed on left edge to plate mark.
Publisher:
Invevented [sic] & engrav'd by A. Benoist at his lodgings at Mr. Jordan's, a grocer [the] north east corner of Compton Street So-ho, and sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Title from item., Second state, as described in the British Museum catalogue, with price burnished out., A key to persons and objects numbered within the image provided in two columns on each side of the title., Printmaker's announcement following imprint: Note. A. Benoist teaches drawing abroad., and Watermark. 2nd sheet trimmed on left edge to plate mark.
Publisher:
Invevented [sic] & engrav'd by A. Benoist at his lodgings at Mr. Jordan's, a grocer [the] north east corner of Compton Street So-ho, and sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of printing based on watermark., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London?], 1836?, page 60., A reduced copy in reverse of no. 6145 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: J. Whatman 1828., and Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower right corner of sheet, with the area of erasure shaded over in pencil.
