"An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Parlors, Tea, and Tea tables (Tables)
"Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 14 March 1783 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 30, 1802, by Iohn Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folio's and caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Number 278 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of caption below design: Husband, "How do my Dear; you must excuse me my Dear being out so late, you know I don't do it often; I happen'd to meet a brother Buck ...", Plate numbered '278' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 18, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Breakfast at Breteuil; study for a satirical print showing an interior scene with, from left to right, a postilion in enormous boots facing a bald-headed man, a rotund man being shaved by a thin man, a woman with a coffee-pot and plate with bread in front of a table, with a man eating and drinking opposite her, to the right in the middle ground a figure with his ear caught in tongs as the man curling his hair is distracted by a dog, a figure in the background holding up a shirt to cover his nudity, and in the foreground on the far r, a man pulling on a boot, with a print of the Fall of the Bastille above the fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from item., Originally published in 1785. See British Museum catalogue., Possibly a companion print of Rowlandson's "Cully pillag'd"., Watermark., and Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F.
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street)
A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 46 x 67 cm., Printed on wove paper, hand-colored, and matted to 57 x 74 cm., With the ownership stamp on mount (removed): From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 257. With a pencilled note: A rare print seldom met with. Obtained in London thru John Taylor -- ER NY. The original watercolor of this print is included in my collection -- obtained thru Amer. Art at auction, originally in the collection of David Insull., and Attached beneath are collector Joel Spitz's comments on provenance from old mount in pencil.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street)
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
"Two officers of high rank sit together in a cabin, gambling intently at cup (actually spike) and ball. One (left) wears a star; the other, who is older and stouter, watches the dangling ball held by his companion. At their feet is a pile of coins on papers inscribed 'Twenty Pound'. Under the former's foot is a plan of 'Fotification [sic]', under the latter's a large wall-plan of the disposition of a fleet, on which land and 'Ocean' are marked. On the broad many-paned window behind them hangs ramed plan of celestial and terrestrial globes inscribed respectively 'Celiastial' and 'Teristial'. Behind (right), a burly sailor pours out tea for the two effeminate officers, with an expression of pained contempt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print published in 1785 with the title: Sea amusement, or, Commanders-in-Chief of cup and ball on a cruise. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 176-8., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
