View from the Thames of Lacy House, formerly in the County of Middlesex, with boats on the river in the foreground. Built in 1750 for James Lacy, co-owner of the Drury Lane Theatre, the mansion was later home to the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Angus, W. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales... [London] : Published by W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings, Islington, Feby 1, 1787[-97]., "Pl. XXXVI"--Upper right corner., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm; mounted below is the page of descriptive letterpress text that accompanied the print in the volume., and Mounted opposite page 518 (leaf numbered '117' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Novr. 1st, 1793, by W. Angus, No. 4 Gwynne's Buildings, Islington
Subject (Name):
Lacy, James, 1696-1774 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
The interior of a jeweller's shop, indicated only by three necklaces festooned on the wall and by a door giving on to the street. A lady sits between two men; one (left) points insinuatingly to a box of ear-rings which he holds, the other applies a boring instrument to her left ear. To her left, a dog barks as he looks up at her startled face. Behind, a weeping schoolboy with a bag of books is being birched by a young woman. Through the door are seen a Highlander blowing bagpipes and a milkmaid screaming for custom
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and One of a series of 'Drolls.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Octr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bagpipes, Dairy workers, Earrings, Jewelers, Jewelry stores, Necklaces, School children, Women, and Young adults
Lieutenant Bowling visits Roderick Random in prison
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: Chap. 64, Book 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: prison -- Debtors' prisons -- Military: British soldiers., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
Title etched below image., Another state of the print published by Fores on July 16, 1793? Cf. Library of Congress collection, 3-97., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clerks -- Reference to Northamptonshire -- Old men -- Spectacles.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 6, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Melopoyn, a gaunt, black-clad figure, standing at left by a table covered with sheaves of paper, at which sits a theatre manager to whom he has submitted a play for consideration, who gestures emptily at him; illustration to Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' (London, 1793), Vol. 2. 1793."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to: Adventures of Roderick Random. Possibly from: Illustrations by Rowlandson to Smollett's Works. Cf. British Art Center ND497.R78 I45 1799., Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: v. 2, p. 112., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 20 x 27cm.
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
