Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms; below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. The lower scene shows Coram carrying the Royal Charter, granted in 1739, under his arm. Hog...
"The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; th...
Alternative Title:
Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
"Interior of the board room, in the Treasury, Whitehall; men at work around central table, and desk to the left; active fireplace against right wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Treasury. and Great Britain. Board of Trade.
"A preacher in a bulky gown almost fills an hexagonal pulpit, in which he stands full face, the right hand raised in exhortation, left on a book which rests on the tasselled cushion. His face is repulsively sub-human, with broad flattened nose, scowli...
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Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 18th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
A ship's boat filled with rollicking prostitutes, cheering and lifting glasses as they are rowed towards a ship on the right extreme left, with guns projecting from port-holes; two women climb on board by a rope-ladder from a boat, watched by sailors...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st 1809 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Mrs. Clarke's house is on the right. A military officer (Wardle) wrapped in a cloak slips a purse into the hand of a meretricious young woman at the door, with a belt inscribed Favorit. Mrs. Clarke, her breast much exposed, leans from a window to loo...
Alternative Title:
Croaking member surveying the inside, outside and backside of Mrs. Clarkes premises
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Adam, William, 1751-1839, and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833
"Mrs. Clarke's house is on the right. A military officer (Wardle) wrapped in a cloak slips a purse into the hand of a meretricious young woman at the door, with a belt inscribed Favorit. Mrs. Clarke, her breast much exposed, leans from a window to loo...
Alternative Title:
Croaking member surveying the inside, outside and backside of Mrs. Clarkes premises
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Adam, William, 1751-1839, and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833
