"The Duke and Duchess of York face each other, a small table between them; he sits (left), with his hands clasped and resting on the table; she stands (right), a small jewel-box in her left hand, holding out to him a string of jewels. A paper inscribe...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
February 8, 1792, by S.W. Fores, 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, and Moore, Edward, 1712-1757.
Design consists of two images with individual titles above. In the upper image "An obliging disposition" a gentleman in a chaise longue is asked by his visitor to cover his debt: "Sir, you will oblige me to pay this bill, if not I must oblige you". ...
Alternative Title:
More scraps
Description:
Title from text below lower image.
Publisher:
Published April 1, 1830, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand and Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
The tenth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune...
Description:
Title from pencil notation below title.
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical drawings, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Debt, Graffiti, Prison guards, Prisoners, Prisons, Parables, and Political elections
Copy (reversed) of the first state of Plate 7 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 138): A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7 and His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentot...
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
"John Bull, blind, maimed, and ragged, walks (right to left) near a chasm, the edge of which stretches across the foreground of the design. His wooden right arm terminates in a hook to which is attached a cord from the collar of a lean greyhound with ...
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his dog Faithful
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation of personal property, Artificial limbs, Blindness, Debt, Dogs, and People with disabilities
A satire on the debts of the Prince of Wales. A handsome young man in a riding costume (a star on his coat suggesting he is the Prince of Wales) sits in a relaxed manner at a table set with a coffee service. Opposite him are two elderly money-lenders,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novemr. 8th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Leaf 25. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the debts of the Prince of Wales. A handsome young man in a riding costume (a star on his coat suggesting he is the Prince of Wales) sits in a relaxed manner at a table set with a coffee service. Opposite him are two elderly money-lenders,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novemr. 8th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief...
