"A whole length figure stands full-face divided by a vertical line, one half (left) representing a man, the other a woman. The background is similarly bisected, one half (left) being a surgeon's dispensary, the other a carpeted room with a domestic grate on which a saucepan is heating. Beneath the title: 'or a newly discover'd animal, not known in Buffon's time; for a more full description of this Monster, see, an ingenious book, lately publish'd, price 3/6, entitled, Man-Midwifery dessected, containing a variety of well authenticated cases, elucidating this animal's Propensities to cruelty & indecency, sold by the publisher of this Print, who has presented the Author with the above for a Frontispiece to his Book.' The surgeon, who is fashionably dressed, holds an instrument inscribed 'Lever'; the woman holds out a small vessel. The man's bottles, &c, are ranged on three shelves; on the lowest, inscribed 'This shelf for my own use', are bottles inscribed 'Love Water', 'Cantharides', 'Eau de vie', 'Cream of Violets'. Obstetric instruments are inscribed: 'forceps', 'Boring Scissors', and 'Blunt Hook'. On the ground (left) is a large pestle and mortar."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man-midwife
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to: Fores, S. W. Man-midwifery dissected; or, the obstetric family-instructor ... , London : Published for the author, by S. W. Fores, 1793., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Forceps.
Publisher:
Pub. June 15, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
Midwives, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Medical equipment & supplies, Surgical instruments, and Scissors & shears
"The Frenchman sits in profile to the left, on the knee of the Devil (right), who kneels on one knee to support him, and steadies him by encircling his body with his right arm. The Devil is nude and muscular, with large feathered wings; he grins delightedly, left arm raised. His protégé, who is ragged but fashionable and not a sans-culotte, though wearing a bonnet-rouge, holds on his knee a frothing chamber-pot, and blows soap-bubbles from a long pipe. Other bubbles of varying sizes float to the left, filled with close ranks of infantry and inscribed with their places of destination. 'Old England' issues from the pipe; the others are: 'Vienne', 'Flanders' (the largest), 'Rome', 'Prussia', 'Hanover', 'Amsterdam', 'Sardinia', 'Petersburg'. Beneath their feet are papers: 'Asignets'. The scene is near the coast; at the water's edge sit three (Dutch) frogs, their backs to the two figures, saying, "Oh Dear what can the matter be. I wish we was out of their Bloody clutches sure some infurnel Fiend Protect them." They face a burning town on the horizon."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Member of the French War Department raising forses to conquer all the world and Member of the French War Department raising forces to conquer all the world
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 2, 1793, by J. Aiken, No. 14 Castle St., Leicester Square
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
History, Bubbles, Chamber pots ., Devil, and Frogs
"Fox and Sheridan (left) sit together at the head of a rectangular table on which is a punch-bowl, &c, looking with dismay at whigs (right), who advance to hurl their wigs at a large pile of wigs on the left (inscribed 'The Heads having Scratched out of the Club'), or retire, having already done so. Fox and Sheridan wear enormous wigs, the former says, "Brother: Brother: we are all in the wrong" ... Before Fox is a list with names scored through. Sheridan grasps a bottle of 'Sherry'. A couple advance together, in the act of hurling their large wigs at the pile; one says, "I will Scratch out my Name in hopes of getting in for the City" (probably Nathaniel Newnham, returned for the City 1784, but defeated in 1790, cf. British Museum satires no. 7162). The other is perhaps Windham. The only one of the retiring wigless Whigs who is characterized is Burke. All say: "We have erased our Names for ever from the Club, when the Artful & Ambitious designs of a Faction are carried on under a Mask of Prudential Reform & when the leading Members are Notoriously known to Carry on a secret Correspondence with the Avowed Enemies of the Constitution they Affect to Support & Defend it is high time for all prudent & real friends to that Constitution to leave them to their Just Punishment, the Contemp of all true Friends to their King and Constitution."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Crack in the Wig Club
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker unidentified; attributed to Isaac Cruickshank in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... where may be had complete setts of Caricatures on th [sic] French Revolution & on every popular subject. An exhibition admt 1s. in which is a correct model of the guillotine 6 feet high., With publisher's hand-coloring., From a Humphrey's blue paper 'shop' album; price and identities written in ink in the margins, probably in the hand of James Gillray on front. See Andrew Edmunds' description., and On the back, a red stamp with a florish above 'SMP'. Also in black in, in upper left corner "Benier' and in the right corner 'AR'.
Publisher:
Pub. March 17, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Newnham, Nathaniel, approximately 1741-1809, and Whig Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Quarreling, Taverns (Inns), Wigs, Whig Party (Great Britain), and Politics and government
Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Cordé of Caen in Normandy
Description:
Title from item., Two lines of text below title: Who, while he was villifying some of the more moderate men in the Convention ..., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793 and Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793
Title from item., Printmaker from other prints in the Drolls series., Numbered '98' in upper right corner of plate., One of a series of 'Drolls.', Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Accidents: overturned boat -- Views: Battersea Bridge.
Publisher:
Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attend the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the girdle as the arrows fall from the quiver on his back. Behind him, the altar of Venus has tipped over, the fire still burning. A copy of Ovid's Art of love protrudes from the old woman's pocket
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title etched below image., Subtitle transposed from below lines of verse., Early state, with printmaker's name present., Three lines of quoted verse below title: "Upon her fragrant breast the zone was brac'd ..., A satire on the 'pads' which became fashionable in 1793., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attending the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the girdle as the arrows fall from the quiver on his back. Behind him, the altar of Venus has tipped over, the fire still burning. A copy of Ovid's Art of love protrudes from the old woman's pocket
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse below title: Upon her fragrant breast the zone was brac'd ..., Subtitle transposed from below lines of verse., and Later state, with corrections to plate. Cf. No. 8389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th 1793 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attending the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the girdle as the arrows fall from the quiver on his back. Behind him, the altar of Venus has tipped over, the fire still burning. A copy of Ovid's Art of love protrudes from the old woman's pocket
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse below title: Upon her fragrant breast the zone was brac'd ..., Subtitle transposed from below lines of verse., Later state, with corrections to plate. Cf. No. 8389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., 1 print : etching with stipple engraving and aquatint ; sheet 31 x 37.5 cm (trimmed to plate mark)., and Printed on wove paper, hand-colored. With pencil annotation above title identifying the figure as "Lady Cecilia Johnston".
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th 1793 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"View from the riverbank outside the grande house fronting the Thames, looking outa cross the river towards Richmond Hill; a passenger boat pulling into riverbank in foreground, a rowing boat passes on the right, elegantly dressed figures by river in left foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vue de la Montagne de Richmond de la Maison du Conte de Cholmondelly
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on form of printseller's name in imprint: Bowles and Carver partnership began in 1793. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., and "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Wilkinson in Cornhil [sic], & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from caption etched below image., After Dighton. See Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Watercolours by Robert Dighton, 23 February 1978, Lot 80, for original drawing., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See H.R. Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers., Plate numbered '3' in upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Locations: London, Highgate -- Buildings: Wrights Tavern -- Architectural details: window with bull's eye glass -- Street scenes: Highgate -- Market baskets -- Oaths -- Horse troughs -- Signs: signposts., and Mounted to 21 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
