A gentleman, knock-kneed and bespectacled, stands near a table in a print shop or auction gallery. He wears a sword and holds an auction catalog of prints. Possibly a caricature of James Christie, auctioneer
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With offsetting from another print.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 14, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
Illustration to The Diabo-lady, probably by William Combe. Simon Luttrell Lord Irnham, shown with a tail and cloven hooves as successor to the Devil, leads his newly selected wife to their thrones on the left. Behind her are 5 unsuccessful contenders for this position, 3 holding papers which identify them as Mrs. Rudd, Lady Ligonier, and the Duchess of Kingston. Demons and imps fly overhead, one bearing crowns for the happy couple
Alternative Title:
Diabolady
Description:
Title from item., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. April 1777., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46, p. 208., Companion print to: The Diaboliad. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 5424., and Quotation from Milton in plate below image beginning "O Fairest of creation, last and best of all Gods works ..."
Publisher:
pulblisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787., Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5., Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788., and Ligonier, Penelope (Pitt) Ligonier, Countess, fl. 1766-1784.
Illustration to William Combe's satirical poem of the same title. An elderly Devil crowns his successor (Simon Luttrell, Lord Irnham) who mounts the throne on the left. Behind Irnham are 5 unsuccessful contenders for the Devil's office, including at far right, Charles Fox as Volpone with the head of a fox. In the background stands a distraught man in chains, while dragons and demons fly overhead and to the side
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed into plate mark., In plate above image, upper right: Lond. Mag. March 1777., Quotation from Milton in plate below image: "To reign is worth ambition, tho' in Hell.", An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46 p. 152., and Mounted to 23 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787.
Depicts a young lady, fashionably dressed, walking and carrying an enormous parasol to cover her monumental hair, which is dressed in the extravagant heart-shaped style of the period, with curls on the sides, flowers and ostrich plumes at the top. She also apparently wears the fashionable cork bustle, with the back of her protruding skirt providing a ledge on which a "foppishly dressed man" is seated, sheltered by her hair and umbrella. On the left in front of the lady a rustically dressed man has dropped his hat in amazement, while behind her a gentleman in a tricorne hat and leaning on a walking stick points and laughs at the spectacle
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet torn at top along plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Part. Septr 1, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Umbrellas
