Design in an oval. A head with lank, unkempt hair and melancholy, twisted features, mouthing grotesquely, appears to emerge from a tub; this is a section of a tub held by the performer on a table. Reference to G.A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764).
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Numbered '231' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Samplers -- Embroidery -- Sewing tools -- Wallpaper.
Publisher:
Published 12th Novr., 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
"Portrait of an innkeeper known as 'Mother Louse'; an old woman with pointed chin, smiling, almost three-quarter length, directed to left, wearing bonnet, tall conical hat, ruff and apron, a jug in her left hand by her side, a tankard in her right, held out; landscape in the distance beyond, at left, her inn, lettered 'Louse Hall', a famous establishment outside the city of Oxford; fanciful coat of arms below image: three lice surmounted by a tankard, motto on banner underneath, 'Three lice passant'. Reversed copy after Loggan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Wonderful magazine, v. 1 (1793), page 303., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Costume: women's costume, 17th-century -- Buildings: ale house -- Dishes: mugs -- Flagons -- Mottoes: Three lice passant -- Satirical coats of arms., and Mounted to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Coats of arms
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Imprint from impression in the Yale Center of British Art., Plate from: Adventures of Roderick Random in Smollett's Works., Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: v. 1, p. 58., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Narcissa contemplates the picture of Roderick Random
Description:
Title from item., Publication information from other prints in this collection of illustrations to Adventures of Roderick Random., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: follies -- Young women -- Parks -- Paintings: miniatures., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
"View of Westminster Abbey; the west entrance with the two towers on the right; Magdalen Church in the background behind trees to the leeft; a few figures outside abbey"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., and Mounted to 26 x 34 cm.
"The Duke of Richmond stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, &c, a fortress, a baggage-wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 pr Anm', the other, 'Heriditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast done those things thou ought not to have done And hast left undone those things thou oughfi [sic] to have done.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806 and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Arms & armament, and Military
A very pregnant sits slouched in a chair, her left arm around a distaff and a spindle in her right hand. Above her is a picture of a young girl looking down at the broken pitcher at her feet. To the right an old woman in a shawl and wearing spectacles holds a letter in her hand, as she leans towards the younger woman with an expression of concern. Between them stands a young man who stands mostly with his back to the viewer but is slightly turned to the younger woman as he subtly points to the painting over her head
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 14, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, London
"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a barred area or cellar, also raising her petticoats. A little girl (left) stands in the doorway. The legs of the ladies are eagerly inspected by male loungers. One man crouches at the back of the coach to peep through a quizzing-glass. The roadway on the right of the coach is crowded. Men with telescopes are indicated in the windows of the houses (right). Other spectators stand in the cellar or area looking upwards through the bars. The cover of a coal-hole in the pavement is pushed aside to show a profile. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials are incorporated into the design, etched within the escutcheon on the back of the coach., Date in imprint transcribed as "April 1st, 1793" in the British Museum catalogue; etched lines resembling a "7" are found beneath the superscript "st" but may not actually represent a digit., and Imprint continues: ... who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile, admitance [sic] 1 shg. N. folios of caracatures lent out.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
