An engraving above a song: A pretty young woman (Mrs. Bland) sits with her elbow resting on a square piano, facing a man wearing a cocked hat (Braham), who bends towards her, smiling, hands on hips. She weeps: on the piano is a song: 'False Alarms Smile & Tear . . . Laurie & Whittle'. The piano is by 'Broderip'.
Description:
Title from text engraved below image., "False Alarms, or My Cousin' was a comic opera by Kenney first performed at Drury Lane, 12 Jan. 1807. Braham played Edgar Gayland in love with Emily, played by Mrs. Bland." See British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eighteen lines of verse in lower portion of print: Said a smile to a tear, on the cheek of my dear ..., and Plate numbered '458' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 2, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Illustration to Gay's 'A Beggar's Opera' from 'Inchbald's British Theatre'. An interior scene with a Peachum and Polly administering a drink to Mrs. Peachum, who is lying back with her eyes closed in a chair, having had a fit at learning about the marriage of Polly and Macheath; a fireplace with a fire screen and mantel with jars seen in the background at the right
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption below image: "Polly- Give her another glass, sir. Act 1. Scene 1.", Publication date from proof in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1854,0513.487., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Loss of consciousness
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of a quotation from literature below design: Queen. 'Twixt you and me this ring shall be a private mark of faith. Act iv scene 1. [Earl of Essex]., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Earl of Essex, 1750 or 1751 -- Elizabeth I throne -- Theatrical scenes.
Publisher:
Published by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
"Sailors carouse with pretty women on the gun-deck of a man-of-war, the guns projecting through port-holes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Heart than can feel for another
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '476' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and Sixteen lines of verse below title: Jack Stedfast and I were both messmates at sea, and plough'd half the world o'er together; and many hot battles encounter'd have we, strange climates, and all kind of weather ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 26, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes sitting on a chair holding stick topped by a cap of Liberty. On the table beside him are two issues of the newspaper North Briton, nos. 17 and 45 as well as a box with a feather pen in an inkwell
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., Copy of no. 4050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted to 482 x 305 mm. With Bowdich's notes on recto of mount.
Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes sitting on a chair holding stick topped by a cap of Liberty. On the table beside him are two issues of the newspaper North Briton, nos. 17 and 45 as well as a box with a feather pen in an inkwell
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to: 360 x 279 mm.
"Portrait of Joseph Richardson, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, in double-breasted jacket; after Sir Martin Archer Shee; finished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, Frontispiece to: Literary relics of the late Joseph Richardson, Esq. ... London : Printed for J. Ridgway, 1807., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 438 (leaf numbered '52 in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Ridgway
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803, and Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803.
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '474' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of text runs along top margin of plate: The music may be had at No. 10 Tottenham Court Road, and No. 51 Southampton Row., Twenty-four lines of verse in three numbered columns below title: Love disagreeing once with Folly, Folly treated him unkind ..., and Watermark: John Hall.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 1, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Heading to engraved verses ... An elderly spinster kneels on the floor in a rough attic room; beside her is an open book: 'Sorrows of Werter' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7054, &c.]. A man looks in through the thatch that forms the only roof; he overhears her praying for a husband, and offers himself: '"Will a Thatcher do for ye, Miss Wrinkle", quoth he, "Lord thy will be done! I'm content" replied she.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eighteen lines of verse below title: In a village there liv'd an old maid, who was ne'er known for trifles to fret ..., Plate numbered '459' in lower right corner., and Watermark: E & P. Countermark: 1804.
Publisher:
Published March 12, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
