A coach pulling up to the Post Station, the Cock Inn at left, on route to Brighton. The coach is pulling into the court yard, about to pass under a wooden gate bearing the inn's sign, while another coach stands at the inn door. People look down from the second story windows. A man waits at the mile marker in front of another building at right. In the foreground to left, a man with a wooden leg carries a small child on his back as he leads a donkey that carries a woman and two children, one of whom appears to be nursing, the other in a basket that hangs over the donkey. Their dog follows behind
Description:
Title etched below image., First of eight plates to: Wigstead, H. Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789. London : Printed ... for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint in sepia on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 33.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinson's, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Sutton (England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Donkeys, Peg legs, Poverty, and Taverns (Inns)
"A ragged man, wearing clerical bands, stands full face. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, his toes protrude through one shoe. He looks downwards with a meditative grimace, one arm held out towards a church steeple among trees. Mountains form a background. Beneath is etched: '"------Best scene of all, "With which I close this reverend description, "Is your Welch Parson, with his noble living, "Sans shoes, Sans hose, sans breeches, sans every thing.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title, beginning: Best scene of all ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: parody of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ii, 7, 163.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Arrival of Sr. Frances Wronghead and Arrival of Sir Frances Wronghead
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Members of Parliament returning to town-house -- Member of House of Commons -- Reference to opening of House of Commons -- Literature: Allusion to The provok'd husband by Vanbrugh, Sir John, 1664-1726, and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.07.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Secret influence
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: O mistress fair! I'd be a rose ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Uniforms: coachman's uniform.
"Six doughty doctors standing together in discussion, wearing wigs, tailcoats and carrying tricorne hats and walking canes; one at left thoughtfully taps his mouth with the handle of his cane, one at centre, seen from behind, holds his hat behind his back in both hands, a sword at his side; another at right leans forward solidly, resting his folded arms on his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state of the plate, with additional aquatint shading added. For a probable earlier state with the imprint "London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken ....", see Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.100., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,1113.254., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultation., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 272 x 332 mm., and Mounted; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge.
"Six doughty doctors standing together in discussion, wearing wigs, tailcoats and carrying tricorne hats and walking canes; one at left thoughtfully taps his mouth with the handle of his cane, one at centre, seen from behind, holds his hat behind his back in both hands, a sword at his side; another at right leans forward solidly, resting his folded arms on his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state of the plate, with additional aquatint shading added. For a probable earlier state with the imprint "London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken ....", see Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.100., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1943,1113.254., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint from lower edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultation.
"One of a set of five, [Possibly there is a missing print: ? 'The Rector'] see BMSats 7778-81. A curate stands in profile to the right at a reading-desk in a country church, reading from a large book on which both hands are placed. He wears a surplice over spurred jack-boots. Behind him (left) steps ascend to the pulpit, below (right) the clerk in his box leans back asleep. Another sleeping man leans against the clerk's box. In the background is seen the end of a gallery in which six persons are seated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., After Woodward. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse from Shakespeare's As you like it below image: ------ and first, -- the curate, ... ., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: curates -- Interiors: churches -- Churches: pulpits -- Sleeping churchgoers -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's As you like it, ii, 7, 143.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.07.14.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Secret influence
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Adultery.
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
