A well-dressed man with a distressed look on his face is accosted by two men in his elegant parlor decorated with paneled walls, a carpet and settee. The man standing behind him (a bailiff) holds out a arrest warrant as another man desperately grasps ...
Alternative Title:
Man with two suits to his back
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th June 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Actions & defenses, Dandies, British, Interiors, Parlors, and Tailors
A sailor sits on the ground outside a house from which a man (doctor) emerges to offer assistance. He has an amused look on his face as he holds his broken peg leg. One of his two companions puts up his hand to hold off the assistance of the doctor as...
Alternative Title:
Carpenter the best surgeon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th Feby. 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carpenters, Dogs, Peg legs, Physicians, British, and Sailors
Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding...
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
"View looking across Leicester Square to the north, with the equestrian statue of George I in the centre; sedan chairs, carriages and pedestrians passing around square"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier print of the same comp...
"Portrait, three-quarters length seated directed to left, looking towards the viewer, left elbow on the arm of his chair, his hand on the edge of his robes, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on his knee, with the mace on a table beside him, ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 1st Feby. 1800 by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
A simple drayman stands scratching his head as he stops to talk to a man who sits on a wooden crate as he drinks from a tankard outside a country inn. A pretty woman stands in the doorway (the sign for the inn just visible over her head) holding anot...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 4th April 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Plate [136] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, bust-length to left, looking towards right, wearing a tall dark hat, lace ruff, and cloak over ornate doublet; in an oval on stepped pedestal, with scene from classical mythology at the front, within rec...
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Lord Chancellor Bacon
Description:
Title from text within image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [143] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; King Charles sitting at right with sombre expression, his legs crossed and arms folded in lap, watched with sympathy by a servant preparing a fire at left."--British Museum online catal...
Alternative Title:
Charles the First imprisoned in Carisbrook Castle
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
