Title from item., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., Publication date of the state published by Smith and Sayer. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 4603., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: street vendor -- Food: vegetables -- Domestic service: lady's maid -- Containers: large basket., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, mostly trimmed.
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: June 21, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Statues: statue of William Beckford by John Francis Moore, 1772 -- Speeches: reference to Beckford's speech in the House of Commons, November 1766 -- Male dress: alderman's robes.
Title from item., Publication date inferred from that of Smith and Sayer edition published on June 20, 1772. Cf. No. 4602 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate numbered '6' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1772 -- Bag wig., and Watermark.
"Satire on fashion and incompetent riding. A tall thin fashionably dressed man sits awkwardly on a dapple grey horse moving to right beside the Serpentine; inn the back round a couple rides sedately to left, and a man rides a prancing horse; beyond the river are two deer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Macaroni taking his morning ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
An engraving showing a very tall military officer (full-length) walking towards the right, a cane under his right arm. By his sife is a very short, fat lady. Both are dressed in the fashion of the day
Alternative Title:
Captain Conquest and his baggage wagon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint from state described in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Cf. No. 4604 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & J. Smith?
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Obesity, and Staffs (Sticks)
An engraving showing a very tall military officer (full-length) walking towards the right, a cane under his right arm. By his sife is a very short, fat lady. Both are dressed in the fashion of the day
Alternative Title:
Captain Conquest and his baggage waggon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Obesity, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Isaac Taylor senior (1730-1807) or Isaac Taylor junior (b. 1750)., Illustration to an article with the above title., Two lines of text below image: Cupid's soft dart the softer sex compels / And here the urching knocks down beaux & belles., Plate from: Westminster Magazine. London : Printed for W. Goldsmith, v. 1 (1772-3), p. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Auctions: bankrupcies -- Macaronies -- Cupid (Greek deity) -- Mercury (Roman deity) -- Allusion to Theresa Cornelys, 1723-1797.
In a crowded foyer booksellers and printsellers collect parcels of printed sheets on which Mr. Collier's name is crossed out and replaced with their own names. A tired-looking Earl of Bute is slowly ascending the staircase on the right. On the left are shelves filled with books. Tim Bobbin and his wife Mary are shown in the foreground as two small figures riding on the back of William Eyres, publisher in Warrington
Alternative Title:
Tim Bobbin's rap at the pyrates, Tim Bobbin's rap at the pirates, and Brothers in evil
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Tim Bobbin., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Four columns of verse below image: Where is the man who sees this motley crew, wou'd judge them brethren on the nicest view. Yet so it is --- ; tho some look wondrous prim, they're thieves alike; and all have robb'd poor Tim ..., Satire on numerous pirated editions of Collier's A view of the Lancashire dialect, which he published under the pseudonym Tim Bobbin., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Printsellers -- Publishing: pirated books -- Clothes pegs -- Mottoes: Fratres in malo -- Architectural details: staircase ballustrade -- Books: bundles of printed sheets -- Bookshelves -- Booksellers: William Stuart, fl. 1742-1774 in Preston, Lancashire -- Hitch & Hawes, fl. 1746-1765 in London -- John Higginson, fl. 1744-1804 in Manchester -- James Schofield, fl. 1756-1759 in Middlewich, Cheshire -- Alexander Smith, fl. 1757-1790 in Halifax, Yorkshire -- Wililam Eyres, fl. 1756-1803 in Warrington, Lancashire.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786
A young maid seated by the kitchen table is admiring in a small mirror her coiffure as it is being arranged by a footman. A little girl playing by the window is mimicking his work on her rag doll. In the foreground on rihgt, an old woman is washing clothes in a large tub. On the other side of the kitchen an maid plays a mandolin while singing together with a footman seated by her side. A small shaggy pet dog sits on an open music book by their feet, howling in accompaniment. A kitten plays with the ribbons of a hat left leaning against the table leg on the floor. In the background is a large fireplace with dishes and candlesticks on the mantle and a bird-cage from which a large black bird peeks curiously at the hairdressing in progress
Description:
Title from item., After painting by Collet titled: High taste in low life, exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1765. Cf. Catalogue of the paintings, sculptures ... exhibiting by the Free Society of Artists, 1765, no. 63., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Townhouse kitchen -- Containers: Warming pan.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, publish'd as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Cats, Dogs, Interiors, Irons (Pressing), Kitchens, and Music
"Portrait of Anthony Hamilton; half length, to the left, wearing wig and cuirass; in an oval frame on a pedestal."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched on pedestal in image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont ... [Twickenham] : Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 51 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646-1720,
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Philibert, Comte de Gramont; half length, turned to the right; with long curled wig; wearing lace cravat, sash, and armor
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was engraved., Plate from: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont ... [Twickenham] : Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Enface de l' epitre"--Upper right corner., Engraved after the picture in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill, which was copied from the original at the convent of the Grands Augustins in Paris., and Mounted on page 51 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Lord B-te & M-n-----d in the horrors, Lord Bute & Mansfield in the horrors, and Lord Bute and Mansfield in the horrors
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 145., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to prerogatives -- Allusion to the Royal Marriage Bill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Struensee, Johann Friedrich, greve, 1737-1772
"A skimmington procession : on a sorry-looking horse a man and woman sit astride, back to back; the woman, richly dressed, sits in front, her skirts pushed back to show breeches. In her right. hand is a pistol, in her left. a sword. The man holds a distaff. The procession is headed by a man (r.) holding aloft on a pole a petticoat and a pair of horns. Behind him walks a man beating a drum. Behind the horse is a woman carrying a broom over her shoulder and a woman blowing a horn. A spectator points and jeers, another walks with folded arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dowager Queen riding poor Denmark
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a description of the palace revolution in Denmark in 1772., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 56.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808 and Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775
Title and printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: London magazine, or Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London: Printed by C. Ackers, for J. Wilford ... v. 41(1772)., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: London Magazine -- Personifications: Times -- Harlequin -- London: city arms., This impression trimmed within plate mark. Plate was cut into two between image and title resulting in loss of the first part of the title and the statement of responsibility, then pasted together on another sheet., and Mounted to 21 x 14 cm.
"Portrait of Ann de Laval, Countess Stanhope; full-length seated directed to left, wearing mourning and a heavy shawl over her hair, leaning her head on her right hand and looking up and ahead, with a skull, bones, candle and books on the table by her right elbow, a curtain and columns behind to right, surmounted by decorations like crows with wings spread, over a corpse; state with scratched production details"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honorable Lady Stanhope
Description:
Title from text below image., Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
The administrators of the East India Company are confronted with the image of East Indian merchants. A letter of apology lies at the feet of the one director who stands up in fright, his chair overturned behind him
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Town and country magazine, v. 4, supplement (1772), page 705., Illustration to dialogue: The directors in the suds, or, The Jaghire dismayed at the ghosts of the black merchants., and Placement instructions above image: Vol. IV ; No. XXXIX.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colebrooke, George, Sir, 1729-1809, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774, and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Administration, East Indians, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
Volume 2, after page 270. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in riding dress stands on the right, bending forward to take the hand of a young woman on the left, who leans away from him. He wears spurred top-boots and holds a whip in his left hand; a long queue protrudes from under his hat. The woman has a tall coiffure and holds a fan in her right hand. Two bollards line the walkway they stand upon; the exterior wall of a building is seen behind the pair
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; date at end of publisher's statement has been erased from sheet. Date of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in after page 270 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a description of the palace revolution in Denmark in 1772., Plate from: Every man's magazine ... London, v.1 (1771-2), p. 353., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Danish soldiers' uniform -- Palace revolution, Denmark, 1772 -- Vehicles: coach -- Maria of Brunswick, widow of Frederick V of Denmark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808 and Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775