publish'd as the Act directs [ca. 2 September 1780]
Call Number:
780.09.02.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Fashionably dressed young woman, in a large hat and elbow-length gloves, is seated on a grassy bank under trees with a distant view of London to the right
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date erased from print., and Publication date extrapolated from that of a smaller version of this print published by C. Bowles on 2 September 1780.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Fashionably dressed young woman, in a large hat and elbow-length gloves, is seated on a grassy bank under trees with a distant view of London to the right
Description:
Title from item. and Reduced version of no. 5823 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Transmutation of sexes
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
"Portrait, bust in a feigned oval frame directed to left, looking to left, dark hair loose around the shoulders, wearing a turban with a feather and a loose, low-cut silk gown with an eastern shawl draped around the shoulders, fastened with a brooch and braid at the breast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 24 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes written in pencil below title in unknown hand., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Septr. 4, 1780 by R. Wilkinson, No. 58, Cornhill
In an elegant bedroom a young woman sits at her dressing table looking at her reflection in the mirror. At her side is a barber with combs in his apron gestures at her image which shows the elaborate high hair of the fashion. Embroidered curtains hang over her canopied bed; the room is decorated with wallpaper and a patterned rug, curtains on the window, and a sash behing the dressing table
Description:
Title from item. and Date conjectured from costume.
"Portrait of George Germaine, three-quarter length; standing at a table, directed and faced to left; looking to front; holding a sword in his left hand, his right is resting on a piece of paper inscribed 'To the King'; window in the background; coat of arms below the image"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 1st. 1780 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
