Three men are seated around a table, from left to right a squire wearing spectacles and reading aloud from the Daily Advertiser, a parson in the center smoking a pipe and raising a glass of punch, and a barber with his wig askew on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued March 7, 1777; believed to be Gillray's first etching., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 11, 1784, 227 Strand, London, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Reading, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Barbers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Ticket identification, "Subscribers ticket, west door", in letterpress in lower left of sheet. Red stamp, "Westminster Abbey", in lower right of sheet., and Admission ticket for the preformance of Handel's Messiah, 29 May 1784, Westminster Abbey.
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene is watched by a few alarmed customers, a parson reading a paper, and an upset young woman behind the bar
Description:
Title etched below image. and From "A preservative against duelling" in The Wit's Magazine, 1784, p. 81.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene is watched by a few alarmed customers, a parson reading a paper, and an upset young woman behind the bar
Description:
Title etched below image., From "A preservative against duelling" in The Wit's Magazine, 1784, p. 81., and 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 19.6 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 22 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
"A lady wearing a feathered hat falls to the ground from the back of a dog on which she has tried to ride. A maidservant with a broom, and a servant-lad look grinning round the door (left). The carpet, wallpaper, an ornate chair, &c, show that the room is well furnished."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Artist identified as Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue.
"The interior of an inn bedroom, showing a large four-post bed with check curtains. A fat doctor, seated on the foot of the bed, is being forced to drink from a large pot held by a man wearing a check dressing-gown, nightcap, and slippers. A chambermaid leaning on her broom, a waiter, and a coachman stand within the open door (right), watching with amusement. Standing on a recessed window-seat (left) are medicine bottles and pill-boxes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor outwitted
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Illustration to verses with the same title, from The wit's magazine, 1784, p. 321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Patients -- Medicine bottles -- Pill-boxes -- Inn bedrooms -- Bed with checked curtains -- Curtains -- Washstands -- Domestic service: chambermaids -- Brooms -- Waiters -- Coachmen -- Male costume: dressing gowns -- Nightcaps -- Slippers., Mounted to 21 x 29 cm., and Mounted on verso of cropped map: Operations of the siege of the citadel of Antwerp. London : Published by M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832.
George III and Charles Fox, with a fox's head, try to pull the royal crown from each other's hands. Fox is helped by Lord North who wants the share of the crown, while the King is being pulled back by his coat-tails by Pitt who warns him that Fox's and North's ambition "knows no bounds."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Place of publication from that of the Rambler's Magazine., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Rambler's magazine, 1784., and Contemporary drawing of two heads on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Confrontations, Crowns, and Clothing & dress
