"A haggard-looking man is seated in profile to the left in an armchair beside a small table on which are two candles (which light the room), a medicine phial, &c, and his breeches. He wears shirt, night-cap, ungartered stockings, and slippers. He regards his hands with an expression of intense melancholy. The room and its contents show that he is a fashionable rake struck down by disease. A fire burns in the grate; on the chimney-piece (left) is a clock surmounted by a figure of Time as a winged skeleton with a scythe. Above is a picture, the right part alone visible; it is a free rendering of pl. iii of Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' (BMSat 2188) showing the ballad-singer bawling the 'Black Joke'. The frame of another picture is inscribed 'Macies et nova febrium': Pandora kneels holding open a box inscribed 'Pandora' into which Mercury (cf. BMSat 7592) drops a black spot. Above this is a tailless bird in a cage. A sash-window with a festooned curtain is partly shuttered. On the wall (right) is a large hat, a sword-belt, scabbard, and broken sword, and a pair of pistols. Below is a close-stool; torn papers lie on the floor, with a torn book: 'Fashionable Cypriad'. In the foreground is a dog. The floor is carpeted. Beneath the table is engraved: '"Non vanae redeat Sanguis imagini, "Quant virgd semel horridd "Nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi."'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with partial loss of text., and Mounted on leaf 35a (i.e. verso of leaf 34) of volume 7 of 12.
"A ship-load of English courtesans has just arrived in Calcutta and is being sold by a thin and foppish auctioneer who stands on the extreme left on an improvised rostrum. The women are being inspected by Englishmen and orientals whose appearance is more Turkish than Indian. The central figure is a woman who gives her right hand to an Indian, at whom she looks languishingly, her left to a stout Englishman, over whose head a little black boy holds a tall umbrella. Papers projecting from his pocket are inscribed 'Instructions for the Governor General'. A stout oriental smoking a long pipe holds up the petticoats of a woman in back view who puts her hand on the shoulder of an elderly man wearing a jewelled turban, turning aside from a young military officer. The middle distance is crowded with figures; an enormously fat woman (right) is being weighed in a scale opposite a barrel inscribed 'Lack of Rupees' which she slightly outweighs. On the right is the side of a high warehouse into the door of which a number of weeping women are crowding. Over the door is inscribed, 'Warehouse for unsaleable Goods from Europe NB: To be return'd by the next Ship'. Behind are the masts of a ship with furled sails. In the foreground is a row of seven casks all inscribed 'Leake's Pills'; on them is a box inscribed 'Surgeons Instruments'. The auctioneer stands on a case inscribed 'British-Manufacture' and decorated with crossed birch-rods. Beside it is a smaller case supposed to contain books and inscribed 'For the Amusement of Military Gentlemen. Crazy Tales'; 'Pucelle'; 'Birchini's Dance'; 'Elements of Nature'; 'Female Flagellants Fanny Hill'; 'Sopha'; 'Moral Tales'. The auctioneer's desk is a bale placed on end and inscribed 'Mrs. Phillips (the original inventor) Leicester Field London. For the use of the Supreme Council.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Surgeon's instruments -- Leake's pills -- Turbans -- East India Company -- Auctioneer.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 16th 1786, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
"A crowded scene in a bare room giving access to the theatre, which is seen through two open doors (right), each showing two boxes, and a section of gallery above, filled with spectators. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected and addressed by the loungers. The centre figure is George Hanger in profile to the left, his club under his arm, arms folded, staring at a bold and handsome girl who stands with another pretty young woman. A man in deep shadow seizes Hanger's bunch of seals. Two elderly men address a fat bawd who holds a basket of fruit and playbills; a coin is placed in her hand. A misshapen elderly beau (not, as Grego suggests, Sir L. Skeffington, b. 1771), looking through a quizzing-glass, steps on an irate lady's dress (right). On the wall is a large play-bill: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden \ Way of the World \ Who's the Dupe'. The room is lit from bracket lamps high on the right wall, diagonal shadows are thrown across the room, some of the figures are brilliantly lit, others in shadow."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Impression from a worn plate; only traces of previously extensive aquatint remain., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 5th, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Martin Folkes. Addison
Description:
Title from text in image above the two figures. and Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. and Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Martin Folkes. Addison
Description:
Title from text in image above the two figures., Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image., and Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. and Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height.", Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Charmers of the Age See Nichols's Book, 3rd edition p. 258. Given to me by the Right Honble. Willm Windham., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: There is no scarcer plate in the whole collection. No more copies of it than this & Lord Orford's have been found., and On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 188 x 263 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Print depicts the heads of five officers wearing tricorne hats trimmed with braid. The figure on the left foreground has a quizzing glass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Officers' uniforms., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 10.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 19.0 cm., One of two plates printed on same sheet., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Print depicts the heads of five officers wearing tricorne hats trimmed with braid. The figure on the left foreground has a quizzing glass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Officers' uniforms.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Vestris fils, as in BMSat 5905, on the same stage, is dancing in a similar pose, poised on his right toe, his back to the audience, looking over his left shoulder smiling. In his right hand is his hat, held out as before but full of notes or bills, inconspicuously inscribed "gui, £1100", and "£20,000". In his left hand he holds out a netted purse to which is attached a label inscribed "English Guineas". In place of the goose of BMSat 5897 in each lower angle of the square is an ape dressed as a dancer and with his hat held out, cf. BMSat 5903; one (left) matches the pose of Vestris in BMSat 5905, the other (right) his pose in this design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
He danced like a monkey, his pockets well crammed ... and Oh qui goose-toe!
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmakers and artist from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with different publication line, of a print issued with the imprint "Pubd. May 16th, 1781, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand." Cf. No. 5906 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Text below image continues: ... caper'd off with a grin, "kiss my a*** & be d-d.", Campanion print to: "A stranger at Sparta standing long upon one leg ...", and Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 12 of 12.
Sketches of the heads and shoulders of clerics. The five at the top, labelled 'London Clergy' are in clerical clothes and full of white wigs. Some of the heads are shown sideways, some full face. Below are five heads labelled 'Country Clergy', not in strictly clerical garb. One man has a hat on and a turban under it. Another wears a turban, still another has long natural hair
Alternative Title:
Country clergy
Description:
Title from text within image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs -- Clerical garb -- Turban., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 16.9 x 17.2 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 19.0 cm., One of two plates printed on same sheet., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly
