"One of a set of four, and a companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7177. A party of unsoldierly Dutch ragamuffins practises firing at the figure of a Prussian soldier (right) chalked on a high stone wall. They stand on the brink of a ditch close to the wall and are commanded by a man in civilian dress holding a pike, evidently a member of a Free Corps, who is directing the military training of the others. One man stands up to his knees in water; frogs are climbing up him. Other frogs stand on the bank holding weapons. A crowd of ruffians (left) watch the firing, some have muskets, one a blunderbuss, one blows a trumpet, another waves his hat; all exult at the success of their arms against the symbol of the Prussian army, at which a dog barks and ducks quack. The high stone wall has a ruinous gap which is filled with a windmill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., DeGrey's ms. note on verso., and Watermark with initials R G below.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 18th, 1787 by T. Harmar, No. 164 (opposite Bond Street) Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, Great Britain, Ethnic Stereotypes, Crowds, Weapons, Firearms, Frogs, Trumpets, Pipes (Smoking), and Military training
Two riders having trouble with their mounts on a country road with a sign on the left "to Rumpford 2." The rider on the left has lost his stirrups and is handing onto the horse's head. The rider to the right is taking a header and his horse has stumbled and gone down. At the extreme right is the cause -- a barking dog
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Riders falling off -- Sign post to Rumpford.
Publisher:
Pub'd Mar[c]h 15, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1799]
Call Number:
787.04.10.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven men are gathered around a gambling table in a tavern, two of them playing at cards, others watching. The man on the far right is fast asleep, his dog's head resting on his knee. In the background, a barmaid tallies up the drinks inside a bar. The game is between a shrewd looking man on the left and a tallow youth on the right who is receiving bad advice from a man to his right, with a glass in hand. Behind the youth a broken mirror hangs tilted on the wall. Below it, one of the onloookers is leaning over the back of the settee peeking at the youth's cards. Standing in the center is an obese man holding a bowl and smoking a pipe
Alternative Title:
Countrymen defrauded
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of business at the address in imprint. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 169., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Old Trusty with his town made friends ..., State with alternate title and undated. Cf. No. 9672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: sharpers -- Furniture: card-table -- Bar -- Gambling: cards -- Taverns: tavern in Smithfield -- Broken mirror -- Animals: dog -- Countrymen -- Card players -- Barmaids -- Watches -- Pocketbooks -- Pipes -- Thomas Rowlandson as a sharper -- J.K. Sherwin as a country lad., and One of the subjects identified as R.W. King, in an unknown contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge
Subject (Name):
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 and Sherwin, J. K. 1751-1790 (John Keyse),
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 April 1787]
Call Number:
787.04.10.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Seven men (three-quarter length) are grouped round a card-table in a Smithfield tavern. One (right), young and innocent, inspects his cards; beside him an older countryman lies back asleep (right), his dog resting his head on his knee. The other gambler (left), holding his cards, looks at his victim. Three onlookers have crafty expressions. A fat man, smoking, approaches with a bowl of punch. In the bar (left) a fat woman chalks up a score. Coins, a watch, and pocket-book are on the table. A broken mirror and a picture of a horse decorate the walls. Beneath the table are twelve lines describing the sleep of 'Old Trusty' while his son is cheated by 'the Harpy-Tribe'."--Biriths Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Countrymen defrauded
Description:
Title from item., Curator's note from British Museum catalogue: The card-playing sharper is a portrait of Rowlandson, the country lad is reputed to be J. K. Sherwin; though this seems unlikely, since Sherwin was then thirty-six, the identification is supported by the self-portrait of the engraver. In 'The Gamesters', a mezzotint by Ward, after Peters, 1786, the card-sharper holding an ace behind his back is Rowlandson [Said to be the Prince of Wales, according to Challoner Smith (iv. 1485).]; the resemblance to the card-player in this plate, and in a mezzotint, 'A Game at Cribbage' ... is convincing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Old Trusty with his town made friends ..., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: sharpers -- Furniture: card-table -- Furniture: bar -- Countrymen -- Card players -- Barmaids -- Pocketbooks., and Mounted to 38 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Published 10th April 1787 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
Smithfield (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827,, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse),, and Sherwin, J. K. 1751-1790 (John Keyse),
"A headless man with only one leg stands with his instep supported on the point of a cone which rests on a rectangular pedestal inscribed 'High Stations are painful'. A peg supplies the place of a head. His hands are behind his back under his coat-tails, through which projects the riding-whip which he is holding. He wears a spurred top-boot."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Verse below image and above imprint: High stations tumult but not, bliss create, none think the great unhappy but the great., and Sheet trimmed to borders on sides only.
Publisher:
Pub'd June 26, 1787 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Mrs. Fitzherbert in a panniered skirts, a fichu, an enourmous hat and a tartan sash, stands facing us looking down sorrowfully at a writ whcih she holds in her right hand. Above her hang a pair of unbuttoned breeches with 'Honi so' on one garter
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in th Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 11, 1787 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now., Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Formerly mounted with the original print, now housed separately: Drawings M553 no. 1., and Watermark: GR with fleur de lys and crown.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
A campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now., Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Curteis & Sons.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Four figures of ladies caricaturing the dress of the period. The upper pair face each other in profile, one with feathers in her much puffed-out hair, the other with a wide hat tied under her chin (a Werter hat, cf. BMSat 7054). Below, one (left) stands full-face, the other stands in profile to the left with her head in back view, showing the arrangement of her hair. The fashions satirized are the puffed-out breasts, see BMSat 7099, &c, the false 'derrières', see BMSat 6874, &c., hairdressing and large muffs, see BMSat 7244, &c. The hair is much extended on each side of the head and divided at the back by a queue reaching below the waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Mercer from the British Museum catalogue: According to Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermakr: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Publishd April 2nd, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Women
