"Miss Farren (left) sits at her dressing-table, contemplating with rapt admiration an earl's coronet on a wig-block which is a caricature of Lord Derby's head. The voluminous draperies of her dress define a thin and angular figure, with a long thin neck. At her feet is an open book: 'Tabby's Farewell to the Green Room'; near it is a torn paper: 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. How Lov'd how valued once avails thee not To whom Related or by whom Begot.' A pad for inflating the figure (cf. BMSat 8388, &c.) lies across a stool (right). A 'Genealogical Chart of British Nobility' hangs from the dressing-table; the tree issues from the recumbent figure of 'Willm Conqr'; on it lies a small-tooth comb beside which is an insect. Behind Miss Farren are the closed curtains of an ornate bed, whose valance is decorated with the cap of Libertas and the words 'Vive la Egalite'. On the wall hangs a 'Map of the Road from Strolling Lane to Derbyshire Peak'; the places, from S. to N., are: 'Strolling Lane', 'Beggary Corner', 'Servility Place', 'Old Drury Common', 'Affectation Lane', 'Insolence Green', 'Fool-Catching Alley', 'Derbyshire Peak viz Devils Ar.' A jewel-box, bottles, &c, are on the dressing-table, some inscribed: 'Bloom de Ninon', 'For Bad Teeth', 'Cosmetick', 'For the Breath'. On the ground, under the valance of the table, is a large bottle of 'Holland[s]'. After the title: '"A Coronet! - O, bless my sweet little heart! - ah, it must be mine, now there's nobody left to hinder! - and then - hey, for my Lady Nimminney-pimmenney! [see BMSat 8888] - O, Gemmini! - no more Straw-Beds in Barns; - no more scowling Managers! & Curtsying to a dirty Public! - but a Coronet upon my Coach; - Dashing at the Opera! - shining at the Court! - O dear! dear! what I shall come to!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature is repeated, the second signature located below lower right margin of design and in a slightly different form: Js. Gy. inv. & ft., Additional publication line, with slightly earlier date, is etched below lower left margin of design: Pubd. March 20th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street & St. James's Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Hat-stands -- Mirrors -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Cosmetics -- Pincussions -- Female dress: cork rumps -- Genealogy: British nobility -- Maps: satiric map of Derbyshire -- Allusion to Derbyshire -- Allusion to the Green Room -- Spirits: Hollands gin -- Boxes: jewelry boxes -- Furniture: stools -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- Elegies.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829 and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"A small ugly man rides a galloping horse in profile to the left, his leg thrust forward. He wears spectacles, his complexion is dark. There is a background of grass and trees, and in the distance a building with a pediment, evidently the new Knightsbridge Barracks (see 'Gent. Mag.', July 1797, p. 545, pl.)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Hyde Park., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Horseback riding -- Buildings: Knigthsbridge Barracks., and Watermark: Turkey Mills / J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of second imprint below verse., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: O love! What a Proteus thoug art! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Farmers -- Male dress: smock.
Title from item., Publication date from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Magic lantern shows.
"Lord Kenyon (left), in wig and robes, flogs with great vigour the scarred back of Lady Buckinghamshire, whose wrists are tied to the back of a cart. He has a scourge in the right hand, a birch-rod in the left; from his pocket issues a paper: 'Laws against Gambling'. His head is in back view. His fat victim wears a feathered turban and fashionably dressed hair; her profile and gestures indicate shrieking protest. The horse plods (left to right) away from the spectator. On a pitchfork lashed to the cart is a placard: 'Faro's Daughter's Beware'. Behind is a crowd, divided between those (right) who watch the cart, grinning, in front of whom stands a constable with his staff, and those in back view who surround a pillory in which stand two ladies, closely confined, under a rain of missiles flung by the mob. Both wear feathers in their hair, one (left) has a profile somewhat resembling that of Lady Archer, but is perhaps Lady Elizabeth Luttrell; the other is probably Mrs. Concannon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: carts -- Punishment: flogging -- Scourge -- Birch-rod -- Pillory -- Constables -- Judges -- Reference to gambling -- Mrs. Concannon, fl. 1797 -- Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, d. 1799 or Sarah, Baroness Archer (1741-1801).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Seamstresses -- Cribs -- Washer tubs -- Crowns -- Bonnet rouge., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Two men, one a parson on horseback, the other a lawyer walks by his side. They closely resemble each other in profile and appearance except that the latter is thin and angular. The ungainly horse walks slowly (left to right) along a country road, beside which is a milestone: 'Derby II. Leicester 17. London 116'. In the distance is a village church
Alternative Title:
Pair of portraits
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr.11th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Lawyers, and Traffic signs & signals
Title from item., Two lines of verse below title: The sweeping scythe's keen edge he wets ... Vide page 15 line 91., Above image: Select poets., and Plate from: Cooke's Select poets.
Engraved titlepage with vignette from: The poetical works of Robert Dodsley [Cooke's edition] London : Printed for C. Cooke, and sold by all the booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, [1797]. and Temporary local subject terms: Milkmaids -- Young men.
Set of 12 engravings depicting Lady Emma Hamilton performing tableaux in Greek costume., Cover title, on engraved label: Lady Hamilton's attitudes., A re-engraved imitation of the original plates. The originals engraved by Tommaso Piroli. The title page of this edition has a long ess in the word permission, and there is no period after Hamilton., May have been issued 1802 or later. Various leaves of plates in both British Art Center copies have a duty stamp dated 1802. In BAC copy 1, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1799; in copy 2, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1802., Title page and plates printed on stained orange paper; each mounted on larger paper., Engraved throughout., BAC : British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 in original wrappers, with engraved title label. Also bears bookseller's label on front cover: "Sold at Dunford's, Great Newport Street, London." Inscribed E. Saunders. Copy 2 also in original wrappers, with engraved title label. The title page for the London, Random & Stainbank, 1800 edition of this work (title: Lady Hamilton's attitudes. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples) has been laid in. This title page was aquatinted by G. Shepheard after F. Rehberg., and Lacking cover title, with engraved label. Two prints with British customs stamps for tinted paper on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 12th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library
