"A clerical J.P., ugly and elderly, sits full-face in a high-backed arm-chair, looking towards a demure young girl (left), who stands in profile to the right. His face is contorted with perplexity; the position of his feet indicates acute uncertainty. A man seated behind her on the extreme left listens intently through an ear-trumpet. An ugly and satyr-like man stands beside the Justice's chair. Three similar men, and an old and bedizened woman, are seated by a table on the right, listening with amusement. Beneath the title: 'My Dear little Girl what have you been about, they say you are pregnant - I really dont know your Worship - Some Wicked Wretch is the Cause of this report - But If I have done any thing amiss Sir, I am sure I was Dreaming'. L. & W., No. 105."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: My dear little girl, what have you been about ..., No. 105 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Temporary local subject terms: Justices of the Peace -- Pictures amplifying subject: print with Ten Commandments -- Plantiffs -- Defendants -- Furniture: armchairs -- Female costume: head-dress -- Pregnancy., and The word "pregnant" in the first line of text below title erased from this copy and replaced in contemporary hand with "So! So!"
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A woman sitting over the cradle of her child, at right a servant woman seen from the back pours from a jug into a saucer resting on a ledge below a portrait of the Lady, standing three-quarter length with folded arms; oval design after Bunbury, illustration to the ballad of the same title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Two lines of text below title: Balow my boy, lie still and sleep, it grieves me sore, to see thee weep., Illustration to the ballad 'Lady Ann Bothwell's lament'., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, Women domestics, and Pitchers
"On a street, a man with a walking stick waves his hand at a dog standing at left, behind his back two finely dressed young men converse, one gesturing to right as if suggesting that they should leave, a monk behind them walking to left, and a religious building over a wall in the background (Two Gentlemen of Verona)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: From the original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York., Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Launce. O, tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies ... The two gentlemen of Verona., and One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet St.
British tars giving the carmignols a dressing on memorable 1st of June 1794
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has just fitted up his exhibition on an entire novel stile [sic] admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to sansculottes -- Dogs: bulldog -- Emblems: tricolor cockades., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 25, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Sansculottes, Fighting, Sailors, and British
"Lord Thomas leaning forward in a chair to left, one hand on his sword, handing a rose with the other to Annette, who sits opposite, petting a dog, while the nut-brown maid, new married to Lord Thomas, runs forward with a dagger to stab her rival in jealousy."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version of the same design
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to the folk ballad 'Lord Thomas and fair Annett'., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
"To right, a soldier and a young woman embracing each other; to extreme right, a woman seated, facing back; to left, a soldier on a horse, in profile to left, holding another horse's bridle; in a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version of the same design
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to verses that are perhaps part of a longer ballad, the author of which is unidentified., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Two women on the right stand next to a wooden gate and look over at a soldier on the left, who is seated on a hummock and holding a rifle
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to Lord Lyttelton's translation of parts of an elegy of Tibullus., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773 and Tibullus
A seated woman is engaged in spinning wool, a basket at her feet, while a man holding a pipe sits close to her on the left. Another man stands on the right, arms crossed and watching the pair. Houses are seen in the background; the masts of a ship rise above the trees at right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to Lord Lyttelton's poem 'The progress of love'., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
Subject (Topic):
Spinning apparatus, Pipes (Smoking), Ships, Baskets, and Dwellings
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from text on original issue: Drawn by Collings ; etchd. by Barlow., Reissue of the left half of a plate originally published 1 June 1790 in the Attic Miscellany, v. 1, page 321. Cf. No. 7753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Publisher from that of the periodical in which the plate appeared; date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Plate from: The Carlton-House magazine; or, Annals of taste, fashion, and politeness. London : Printed for W. and J. Stratford, v. 3, page 100., For the right half of the reissued plate, see no. 8501 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Sailors -- Conscription: press-gangs., and Two sheets have been pasted together in an attempt to reconstruct the original image from the Attic Miscellany.
Advertisement for the shop of Mary and Ann Hogarth (sisters of the artist), at the sign of the King's Arms, Little Britain Gate; a view of the interior of a clothing shop with two women serving parents and their young sons; surrounded by a frame with the royal coat of arms at the top
Alternative Title:
Mary and Ann Hogarth
Description:
Title from text below image., The British Museum suggests that the images may be portraits after the two sisters., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 15?., and Copy of Hogarth plate. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 117.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, Mary, 1699-1741. and Hogarth, Ann, 1701-1771.
