Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 8 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 9 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the left with two tankards of beer. The diners' hats hang on pegs around the walls. A chandelier hangs before three casement windows with oval mirrors decorating the walls between. The tavern has been identified as either the Rainbow Tavern or the Wheatsheaf Eating House, both on Fleet Street
Printmaker and title from Grego., Publication date from watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title on the original drawing (now in private hands): The Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. See Bridgeman Art database., Later reprint in Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. (London, 1836) is titled: Table d'hote., Restrike of a print listed by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v.2, p. 19., Watermark: J Whatman 1828., and Title supplied in unknown hand below plate: Rainbeau Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800.
"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the print on which this design is based., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online cat., registration no.: 2006,U.1348., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43., Watermark: J. Whatman 1828., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from sheet., and A border enclosing the design and shading to the lower portion of the design added in pencil.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below image: A fool to pleasure yet a slave to fame, say what can cause such impotence of mind? ..., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image., and Temporary local subject terms: Monkeys -- Animals in human situations.
Publisher:
Published 1828 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6 Pall Mall
Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players., Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression., A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note added below image: 1828.