A peddler shown full-length walking left with two poles from which hang dead rabbits
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reduced copy in reverse of no. 18 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
"No. 6. A ballad-singer (three-quarter length) bawls a ballad; at her back is an infant, another is beside her, both bawling. Her song: 'What's Life without Passion, sweet Passion of Love'. An elderly bearded Jew is close beside her, hands clasped, looking up in ecstasy. Beneath the design: 'Melody produces Rapture, as exemplified in the Jew Cloathsman's rapturous attention to the Vocal strains of the Ballad-singer & her Family.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Two lines of text below image: Melody produces rapture, as exemplified in the Jew cloathsman's rapturous attention to the vocal strains of the ballad-singer & her family., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Cf. State with plate no. See No 9628 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: ballad-singer -- Used clothing -- Jews -- Singing -- Children.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
A savoyard peep show owner, walking to the right with his show strapped onto his back and holding a stick
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy in reverse of no. 22 in M. Laroon's Cries of London., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"The younger man stands legs astride negligently using a ramrod. A bleeding cock hangs from his waist. His companion leans against a fence, voraciously gnawing a cold chicken, a bottle of 'Porter' beside him. Near him lies a dead cat. Each dog watches his master, the bulldog's collar is inscribed 'John Bull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recharging, Cockney-sportsmen re-charging, and Cockney-sportsmen recharging
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Third of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.5.48., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A copy in reverse of no. 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Soldiers -- Volunteers -- Clerks -- Sign: "The Old Fortune" -- Town centers -- Castle gate -- Pictures amplify subject., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 239.
An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII., 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, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Medical education, Physicians, Signs (Notices), Skeletons, and Skulls
An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 28.6 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 36.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Medical education, Physicians, Signs (Notices), Skeletons, and Skulls
Roger Payne, bookbinder, shown whole length leaning over to the left as he puts a book into a book press in his workroom; on the floor at his feet other books. He is a very thin, frail looking man with hollow cheeks. The room is otherwise empty and in disrepair with cracks in the walls. To the right is a fire blazing in a fireplace with cups and bowls on the mantel, a cup on the grate, and others on the sill of a casement window (left).
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Originally published by S. Harding.
"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered 'No. 12' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., and Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Death, Dogs, Older people, Servants, and Single women
