Racist caricature lampooning the inept attempt by African Americans to mimic the leisure culture of white high society depicting an African American tea party hosted by "Mr. Ludovico" and "Miss Rosabella." To the far right of the table, "Miss Rosabell...
"An obese, elderly, bottle-nosed man stands in his garden, in profile to the left, his knees flexed, in slippers, ungartered stockings, open waistcoat; he shades his eyes and looks up ecstatically. A cloud of flies buzz round his bald head; a panting ...
"A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comfor...
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Carriages & coaches, Salutations, Snow, Umbrellas, and Winter
A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comfort...
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Salutations, Snow, Winter, and Umbrellas
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a smal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
A man sits backwards in his chair at the counter of an shop as he smiles with pleasure as he spoons his ice from his glace. In the background are drawers and a shelf with jars
A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
A view of the Stock Exchange, filled with members; the wall-clock points to 1:30. A few sticks and fists are raised above the crowd, and a hat flies up. In the foreground a horse, led in by two members, is incited by others to kick, a practical joke ...
Alternative Title:
Billy White's poney made a member of the stock exchange Billy White's pony made a member of the stock exchange
A wintery scene: A hunter who in pursuit of the duck that he shot which has fallen on the frozen pond, has broken through the ice and scrambles toward the shore; his gun sinks into the water beside the abandoned duck. His two hunting dogs look at the...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published, by H. Fores, No. 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, Hunting accidents, Hunting dogs, Ice, and Lakes & ponds
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy s...
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Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
Holding a candlestick, a wife departs from a room, which shows sign of an altercation with a turned over chair and pillow and book on the floow, her back to the viewer turns back looking at her husband
"Hunting scene, hounds in the distance in full cry. In the foreground two riders gallop across a field; one is in pink, the other is a neatly-dressed parson in tricorne hat, and bushy powdered wig. The former: Holloa Hark!--Doctor--d'ye hear that char...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Chas. Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Huntsmen and hounds with moutned members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimeny and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. T...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
"Liston starts up in bed, alarmed at Venus who stands upon cloud at the foot of his bed (left). Mrs. Liston, small and doll-like (cf. BM Satires 12327), sleeps beside him. A large crescent moon shines through the window. On an arm-chair by the bed (ri...
