Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of A Mrs. F-r and Henry, Viscount Conyngham, d. 1781
Alternative Title:
Lord C-m and Lord Conyngham
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 569.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. X and No. XI, of a Mrs. G-s and Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby (1700-1777).
Alternative Title:
Sir Timothy Tallboy
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 177.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XIX and No. XX, of Mrs. Horneck and Captain Scawen
Alternative Title:
Sumbissive duellist and Mrs. Horneck
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 345., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXXI and No. XXXII, of Mrs. Martin, née Perrott, and General Edward Harvey
Alternative Title:
General H- and General Harvey
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed " in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 513.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXVIII and No. XXIX, of a Mrs. P- and George Neville, Lord Abergavenny
Alternative Title:
Lord A- and Lord Abergavenny
Description:
Titles from text below image. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 457.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
"A middle-aged woman shown head and shoulders directed to right, looking slightly downwards, wearing a plain veil and simple gown which conceals her neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 68 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pope, Edith, 1642-1733,, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Cooper, Samuel, 1609-1672., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of a Mrs. Sw-n and Richard Rigby, known as Bloomsbury Dick
Alternative Title:
Bloomsbury Dick
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 289., In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from dates of publisher's operation at the address given in imprint. See I. Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 113., Copy with variant title. Cf. No. 5261 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Satirized musette -- Animals: boar -- Furniture: music stand -- Wooden legs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Print00197
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., and 1 print : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 237 x 303 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
