On the street in front of the shop of S.W. Fores & Co. a mix of Londoners -- trades people, clergy, gentleman and ladies, etc. -- fight the effects of a very strong wind: a parson loses his wig, a woman's dress is blown up over her hips revealing her ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 28, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly and No. 57 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England) and Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Fishmongers, Men, Prints, Publishing industry, Stores & shops, Wigs, Window displays, Winds, and Women
Depicts a pretty and elegantly attired young lady standing outside a circulating library. She faces right, turned towards the viewer, a parasol under her right arm and a book in her left hand. The windows of the library are filled with displays of boo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Books, Window displays, Libraries, Umbrellas, and Clothing & dress
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[September 1801]
Call Number:
801.09.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the shop of P. Roberts, publisher, from the street with a crowd on the sidewalk and street looking at the display of prints in the window. An elegant figure Roberts (?) stands in the doorway with a tool of his trade (a burin?) in hand; a cus...
Description:
Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Sepr. 1801 by P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, Printing industry, and People with disabilities
A couple stand before a printshop window looking at the display of satiric prints, unaware that the man's pockets are being picked by a dandy with an extreme collar, his accomplish accepting the contents of the first pocket
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 2d, 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Pickpockets, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. ...
Alternative Title:
Dr. Verdion and Doctor Verdion
Description:
Title above image: Wonderful magazine.
Publisher:
Gratis to the purchasers of the Wonderful magazine, pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Grahn, Theodora, 1744-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Bookstores, Quacks, Staffs (Sticks), Umbrellas, and Window displays
Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned...
Description:
Title etched below text.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Frontispiece from 'Metropolitan Grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its Vicinity', 1812. A crowded street scene, with the corner of a tripe-butcher's on the right: 'Gilbert. Gall Tripem[an]', a lean-to shop, in which...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. G. Smeeton, 139 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah,
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, People with disabilities, and Window displays
"Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for th...
Alternative Title:
Politesse du grande monde
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 27th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Crowds, Etiquette, Show windows, and Window displays
"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat hel...
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
Leaf 75. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Numerous figures clamouring to look at caricatures in window of Martinet's printshop, 124 rue Coq Saint Honoré, Paris; the shop sign is given as 'Marinet marchand's destampes', a sign at far left advertises 'Publications de Mons Tegg grande marchande...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Printing industry, Clothing & dress, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Signs (Notices)
