"A scene outside the orchestra at Vauxhall. A stout woman puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face and looks towards a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. A waiter walks off (right) with glasses and a bottle. There are other figures. The background shows the orchestra (left), with two musicians, and the organ; on the right are trees, and the 'covered walk'; two men sit at a table with a bowl of punch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vauxhall Gardens -- Pleasure gardens: London -- Orchestra -- Booths -- Female costume: England, 1784 -- Male costume: England, 1784 -- Walking staves -- Fans., and Mounted.
"A scene outside the orchestra at Vauxhall. A stout woman puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face and looks towards a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. A waiter walks off (right) with glasses and a bottle. There are other figures. The background shows the orchestra (left), with two musicians, and the organ; on the right are trees, and the 'covered walk'; two men sit at a table with a bowl of punch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vauxhall Gardens -- Pleasure gardens: London -- Orchestra -- Booths -- Female costume: England, 1784 -- Male costume: England, 1784 -- Walking staves -- Fans., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 22 x 25 cm.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 8 3/4 i. by 5 f. 2 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., and Plate LII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1784, by John Boydell, engraver, in Cheapside
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.
