A satire: the wife, sitting on the sofa on the right, has kicked over the table, scattering the coffee cups and has thrown something at her husband (?) who holds up his hand to protect himself as a little dog jumps on his leg and grabs the ribbon on his sword in its teeth
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication burnished from plate., and Numbered "352".
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dogs, Domestic life, Marriage, and Tea tables (Tables)
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.01.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
Alternative Title:
Sir William Waddle
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Numbered 30 in ms. on mount., and Inlaid to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the actress Mrs. Abington (nee Frances Barton, 1737-1815) numbered 2, and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne numbered 3.
Alternative Title:
Malagrida
Description:
Titles from text below images., Place of publication from: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777, page 9., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805. and Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815. (Frances Barton),
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a London courtesan identified only as Miss F___m numbered 19, and a Captain Roper, numbered 20.
Alternative Title:
Captain Toper
Description:
Titles engraved below images., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777, page 345., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on board with pages 345-348 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
"Chapel interior with George III and Charlotte watching from royal box as poor figures lined up to receive charity, the men at left and women at right, members of the congregation surrounding in pews at right and chior at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818.
White, Thomas, approximately 1730-approximately 1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Portraits W867 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk receiving the great seal of England from Cardinal Wolsey on his resignation
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Text at top of image: "Engraved for Russell's History of England.", Plate from: Russell, W.A. A new and authentic history of England, with separate historical sketches of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespeare's-Head, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXVII [1777]., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1777]
Call Number:
777.05.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Shown half length, a fashionably dressed woman faces right, her enormous hair occupying most of the image. At the top of her hair is a formal flower garden surrounded by hedges and tended by a diminutive gardener with a rake. On the sides are sausage-like curls and several trailing garlands of flowers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed in image by engraver: MD, i.e. Matthias Darly., and Numbered in plate at top: 15, V.2.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly May 1, 1777 where may be had Bath caricatures
Profile head of a woman facing left with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper two thirds of the print. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with vegetables, carrots and parsnips in particular, while from the top protrude a bunch of asparagus, a pair of scales containing potatoes and herbs reminiscent of then-fashionable ostrich plumes, and trails of hanging pea-pods for ribbons
Description:
Title from item., Trimmmed within plate mark and torn at corners., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver(?) MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and below image by the artist(?) [Miss] Bath on the right., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., British Museum catalogue suggest a date of publication: July 11, 1777., and Numbered in plate at top: 16, V.2.
