"Soldiers in double file march (left to right) in a Paris street diagonally across the design. They are led by a fat debauched-looking monk who leers at a nun by his side; both carry drawn sabres. A fiddler capers in front of the pair. Next is a drummer; the soldiers are correctly dressed and carry bayoneted muskets. A man with a long loaf of bread waves his hat frantically. In the foreground (left) is a shoeblack who, gazing at the monk and nun, applies his brush to the stocking of his enraged customer. Other spectators are a lawyer, an officer arm-in-arm with a coquettish girl. On the extreme right a 'limonadier', his vessel strapped to his back, turns its tap into the glass of a dwarfish boy or man. The lower part of buildings abutting on the street forms a background: a church wedged between a house (left) and a barber's shop (right) indicated by wigs and implements painted on the shutter, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by William Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from caption below image., Artist identified as Abraham James, an army officer who had been stationed in Jamaica for the previous three or four years. See entry in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: -- Jamaican table settings -- Food -- Fruit -- Pineapples -- Beverages -- Wine -- Wine glasses -- Social customs: Jamaica, 1802 -- Cigar smoking -- Chairs -- Lighting: Candle sconces -- Chandelier -- Military Uniforms, 1802.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 12, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
"Three women seated at a round table listen intently to a fourth who reads 'The Monk' by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. One, full face, is old and ugly, the others young and comely; they register excited horror. The reader sits in profile to the left, elbows on the table; from an ornamental clasp at her waist hangs a watch, showing that the time is 12.45; a younger sister, hardly grown up faces her. The room is lit by a single candle on the table; beside it lie smoking snuffers in a tray. Curtains are draped across the window, a fire burns in the grate (right). Heavy shadows are thrown. The ornaments on the chimney-piece (the right of which is cut off by the right margin) are a Gorgon looking down at the women, a skeleton from which snakes emerge, and a dragon. On the fireplace is a carving in relief: Pluto carrying off Persephone in his chariot. There is a picture of a man in armour carrying off a protesting young woman, with rape and slaughter indicated in the background. The room is luxuriously furnished, the women are elaborately dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Literature reference: The Monk by M.G. Lewis.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Title etched below image., Number 276 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '276' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
