"A fat man in his nightshirt, yawning, with insects on his bare leg, stands beside his bed, desperately scratching."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tit bit for the bugs
Description:
Title etched below image., A companion print to: An old maid in search of a flea., Four lines of verse etched at bottom of plate: Alas! what avails all thy scrubbings and shrugs ..., Publisher's advertisment in two parts along lower edge of image border: Prints and drawings lent out on the plan of a circul. library. Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss from bottom edge of all text below title. Missing text supplied from impression in British Museum., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple engraving & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.2 x 37.7 cm, on sheet 37.5 x 45.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
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
From a doorway on the left, a man approaches a large, well-dressed woman who sits in a chair under two paintings. He is pointing to his red nose and holds a cane under his arm and his hat behind his back; a dog is at his heel
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion to a print entitled "Before"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willlm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Dogs, Interiors, Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress