An allegorical print with two tableaux illustrating on the right, the end of a righteous life and on the left the end of the life of a man who made wealth his object of faith. The religious man in bed surrounded by books and against the background of an attractive library, is greeted by the winged figure of Time clutching a scythe and an hourglass. In contrast, the greedy man, his gouty leg wrapped in bandages and resting on a stool, recoils against the figure of a spear-wielding skeleton, upsetting his table
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with an identical publication line etched at the base of the oval design., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; C. Sheppard was only located at Lambeth Hill through 1791. See British Museum online catalogue., With quotations from the Bible's Book of Psalms etched below each title., and Copies after prints with the same titles by Thomas A.E. Chambars based on Francis Hayman.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons, London
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Concepts, Deathbeds, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Scythes, Hourglasses, and Skeletons
A view of the church at Cheltenham and the churchyard with gravestones
Description:
Title engraved below image., Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '23' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff., and Paper with watermark '1791'.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Dec. 17, 1787 by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Cheltenham (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
Alternative Title:
Beau 1791
Description:
Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to Cumberland's History of Nicholas Pedrosa, from the Attic miscellany, v. ii, opp. p. 153., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir John Andrew Gallini and a Spanish dancer
Description:
Titles etched below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1791, page 25., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Feb. 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Title from item., Attributed to Cruikshank from reproduction of the original drawing for this print. See Wark., From a series of Drolls., Temporary local subject terms: Military recruitment -- Military uniforms: recruiting sergeant's uniform -- Recruiting drummer's uniforms -- Buildings: inns -- Military: recruiting sergeants -- Drums -- Furniture: tresle tables -- Settles -- Puns -- Costume: cocked hats, 1791 -- Military: drummers -- Yokels -- Signs: chequered inn sign -- Landlords., and Watermark (partial): armorial shield.
Publisher:
Published 10th March 1791, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ..., Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly