Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 February 1772]
Call Number:
772.02.05.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs a small stag's head with antlers
Alternative Title:
City tailor's wife dressing for the Pantheon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with plate reworked to include an altered publication line and changes to the design. For an earlier state published by William Humphrey that has an advertisement placard present on the back wall among other differences, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.02.05.02+., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by Heny. Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill, London
"Portrait seen bust-length to left within oval frame, head turned in profile to left, wearing loose dress with flower at breast, her hair dressed high and covered with hood."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 42 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer map & printseller No. 53 Fleet Street
An elderly doctor in an old-fashioned wig, holding his silver-headed cane to his nose, takes the pulse of a young woman seated on a sofa. Her eyes are averted to avoid his leering gaze. A bottle of "Blessed Medicine" protrudes from his left pocket
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Medicine bottles -- Female dress, 1772 -- Canes.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Young adults, Women, Medicines, Bottles, Staff (Sticks), and Wallpapers
"Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 40 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Satire on false piety: a man wearing a dressing-gown and white night-cap seated reading a book of 'Sleepy Sermons' beside a table, twisting to right and yawning with one hand raised in the air."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Variant state, with publication date and without plate number. Cf. No. 4514 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: dressing gown -- Nightcap -- Sleepy sermons.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st Jany. 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young maid sitting in an ornate armchair by a round table with an almost empty wine bottle and glasses on it, is being embraced by a black manservant sitting on a stool in front of her. Another black servant is sitting sideways on a chair near them. He is tipping it perilously as he tries with a great effort to play a horn. An open book lies on the floor in the foreground and a painting on the wall in the background is partially covered by an ornate curtain
Alternative Title:
Mungo addressing himself to my lady's maid
Description:
Title from item., The printmaker's name from other prints signed by William Humphrey as 'Umfrey' and published by Sayer., Plate numbered '207' in lower right corner., One line of text below title: For wine inspires us, and fires us, with courage, love and joy, &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Black manservants -- Musical instruments: horn -- Furniture: round table -- Chairs -- Furnishings: curtain -- Painting -- Effects of wine., and Numbered in contemporary hand in upper right corner '155.'
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Draperies, Musical instruments, Servants, and Women domestics
"Satire on ageing macaronis; an elderly man wearing an elaborate wig stands whole-length to front in a fashionable interior, his right hand to his chin, his left in his breeches pocket."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How do you like me
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; publication date erased from end of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered '260' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Bag wig -- Furniture: oval mirror in gold frame -- Furniture: upholstered chair -- Furnishings: window curtain.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., Cf. No. 5094 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: female dressing room -- Macaronies -- Female dress, 1772 -- Masquerade gown -- Lighting: wall sconces -- Furniture: carved back chair -- Upholstered chair and stool -- Dressing table -- Carpet -- Containers: arch-topped box -- Domestic service: lady's maid -- Female costume: masquerade mask -- Tickets -- Reference to Pantheon, London.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Peticoat recommendation the best and Petticoat recommendation the best
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Interior: Carlisle House? -- Architectural detail: portal -- Interior decoration: bust -- Bag wig -- Macaronies -- Pets: cockatoo -- Allusion to the Coterie Club -- Allusion to Pantheon -- Allusion to Polly or Kitty Kennedy., and Matted to 56 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Half-length, directed towards and looking to the left, right arm resting on a slab to the right, chin leaning on her hand; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Publisher:
Published May 29th, 1772, & sold by J. Finlayson, Orange Street, Leicester Fields
