"Dr. Parr stands in a pulpit, preaching, immediately under the sounding-board which is against the upper edge of the design. In his left hand is a pipe from which rises a cloud of smoke inscribed 'Exit in Fumo'; in his right hand is a pipe-stopper. From his mouth descends a billowing cloud of smoke inscribed 'Ex Fumo non dare Lucem'. Below him are the heads of men asleep, or yawning, or disgusted. In the lower right corner a woman puts up an umbrella as protection from the smoke, a man angrily inspects his watch. From a gallery heads, with the lank hair of zealots, look down with angry dismay. In the corner of a pew is the City Sword and mace, indicating the presence of the Lord Mayor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted Latin text below title: "Faucibus ingentem Fumum (mirabile dictu) "Evomit., and Mounted on page 99.
Publisher:
Publd. by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Religious services, Sleeping, Smoking, Umbrellas, and Yawning
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner., Fourth of six plates in untitled series. Each plate consists of three images, possibly designed to be cut into individual borders or scrap-book illustrations., Temporary local subject terms: Mourning -- Male dress: mourning hat -- Funeral emblems -- Hourglasses -- Spades -- Pickaxes -- Skulls -- Old maids -- Snuff -- Birds: cockatoos -- Pets: cats -- Watches -- Padlocks -- Gamblers -- Money: guineas -- Birds: cock-fighting -- Gambling: dice and dice-box -- Playing cards -- Saddle -- Tennis rackets -- Betting books., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 179[8 or 9].
Publisher:
Pub 15 Augt. 1800, by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
"Portrait; long half length, seated at round table, turned to the left, but looking at viewer; one arm around dog on table, another dog's head in his lap; his left hand at chest, under coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., George Steevens (10 May 1736-22 January 1800), English Shakespearean commentator., and Pasted on inside back cover of volume 1.
Publisher:
Published Sep. 1 1800 by S. Harding, No. 127 Pall Mall
"The interior of a small brick shed in which coal is heaped. George Hanger, in profile to the left, thin, and in tattered but fashionable clothes, carries a sack towards the doorway through which a coal-cart is seen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: coal shed -- Trades: coal-man -- Allusion to debts.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering; on his nightcap is an insect. The plaster has fallen from the wall leaving large patches of brick; on it hang his sword, cloak, cocked hat, and a bust portrait of Frederick the Great inscribed 'F. 11'. The only objects on the boarded floor are a close-stool (left) with a torn 'Brussells Gazette', a chamber-pot, and pair of jack-boots (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: delapidated cottage -- Furniture: truckle bed -- Close-stool -- Chamberpots -- Newspapers: Brussels Gazette -- Smoking: pipe -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Frederick II -- Military uniforms: German uniform -- Emblems: two-headed Habsburg eagle -- Germany: German Legion (York Hussars).
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22th [sic], 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away. Virtue and truth, driv'n to despair, it's rage compells to fly, but cherishes, with hellish care, theft, murder, perjury. Damn'd cup! that on the vitals preys, that liquid fire contains which madness to the heart conveys, and rolls it thro' the veins., Companion print: Beer Street., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3136., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 186.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Fictitious societies.
An attractive young woman with a wreath of roses in her hair sits on the lap of an older man who fondles her breast, the word "feeling" inscribed over his head. They are seated in an armchair before blazing fire; at their feet on the floor, a violin, a sheet of music, and a wine glass and carafe. Four other, elderly men participate in the scene of seduction, each representing one of the other five senses, the words "smelling", "seeing", "hearing", and "tasting" inscribed above their heads. Starting at the top and reading clockwise, from behind a large screen a man with a large nose sniffs the woman's head; a man with an eyeglass grins at the pair; a man with an ear trumpet leans from the side; kneeling beside the chair the last licks the woman's hand. On the mantel a clock shows the lateness of the hour
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Grego., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publd. Augt. 30, 1800, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
"View looking across the north side of the square; part of the circular garden area surrounded by iron railings on the right, elegantly dressed figures and carriages on street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
Title etched below image., Imperfect; most of the three-row design has been trimmed away, with only the center image in the top row present. Description based on more perfect impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.1271., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical fees -- Ear trumpets., and Sheet trimmed to 9.2 x 12.6 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1800 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
