In a country landscape, a man and a young woman in riding habit ride together (left to right) on a white horse, passing a signpost that reads (left) "To London" and (right) "To Newbury and Well Hall". She sits in front, holding the reins and riding astride. She holds up a purse in her left hand saying, "This will pay you for your Trouble Honey". The man sits behind, his feet in the stirrups, his left hand on the woman's waist; he says, "Promise me that and I will never say another Mass". The man wears ordinary riding-dress; the woman wears a feathered hat over a frilled cap, and a tight coat over a ruffled shirt. Behind them (left) walks a young woman, wearing a cap of lace and ribbons; she holds her apron to her eye, saying, "The Old witch is carrying away my Director". The words issue from the speakers' mouths on long scrolls. In the foreground (left) is a tree; the background is an undulating landscape with a square church tower and the roofs of a village among trees
Alternative Title:
Father D,----------, leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh and Father D leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Attributed to Nixon in the British Museum catalogue., and Place of publication from location of publisher, assumed to be Thomas Cornell of Bruton Street. See I. Maxted's British book trades, 1710-1777.
A fat English military officer resembling George III marches behind a thin French officer also resembling Louis XVI pulling the latter's queue and kicking him in the rear. Possibly a reference to Rodney's 1782 naval victory over the French
Description:
Title from item., Possibly after Thomas Colley., Date conjectured from the print's possible allusion to Rodney's victory over DeGrasse, 12 April 1782., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Kicking, Military uniforms, British, and French
Lord North, fully clothed, sits in a washtub surrounded by scrub women or fish-wives, one of whom scrubs him with a brush, while another ladles soapy water over him. A fox (Charles James Fox) observes the scene from the extreme left, while the Devil stands holding a trident on the right. A response to North's unpopular increase in the duty on soap
Alternative Title:
Lord North in the suds
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Attributed to T. Colley in British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Evans Oxford Street Mch. 27, 1782 London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Soap, Taxation, Devil, Laundresses, Bathing, and Clothing & dress
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Clavering(?) and her unidentified lover, possibly Col. St. Leger, a friend of the Prince of Wales
Alternative Title:
Gallant colonel and Miss Clavering
Description:
Title from item., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1782 p. 289., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a merchant's wife and her alleged lover, James Marquis of Graham later 4th Duke of Montrose
Alternative Title:
Favourite of the fair and Mrs. Pope
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered above each image: No. XXII and No. XXIII, respectively., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" from the Town and Country Magazine, 1782 p. 401.
