A sailor in uniform stands before a maid on a city street. She looks with suprises at the letter in her hand which apparently just handed to her. Behind them is a hackney coach and Title etched below image
Description:
Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Quote from a story of the same title from The adventures of a hackney coach below title: What cheer, what cheer, Nan ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Sailors, British, Servants, Staffs (Sticks), Streets, and Women
Title etched below image., Place of publication follows street address., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered '623' in the lower left corner., Companion print to: The lottery ticket, or, The sunshine of hope., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: delapidated cottage -- Furniture: table -- Wall cabinets -- Hunger -- Poverty -- Pets: cats -- Children -- Lottery tickets -- Bills -- Pictures amplifying subject: Eve and Adam expelled from Eden., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
A satire with a waggoner drives past a dandy who stands at a doorway on the right. The waggoner's cart is enormous and laden with hay filling the street; he grins and points at the gentleman who is spattered with mud from the cart's wheels. The scene illustrates the song engraved below the image., Also lettered below the image, a song of three verses in three columns: When I comes to town with a load of hay ... So to mind 'em I ne'er seem, &c., Title engraved below image., Imprint, plate number, and verses from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at the bottom with loss of imprint and verses below., Plate numbered: 281., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 25th July 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, Dandies, British, Farmers, Hay, Horses, and Whips
"Portrait; short half-length to left, looking down, wearing a plain dark suit and full chin-length wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
Description:
Title from dedication below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "Chaloner Smith's third state is in fact a separate plate: there are several small differences, particularly in the chin."--Curator's comment, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3485., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 26 (leaf numbered '82' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 20th Feby. 1792, & sold by C. Townley, No. 38 Greek Street, Soho
Page 243. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dandy, with a large hat, walking stick (or bludgeon), and spurs on his boots, stands at the counter of a shop as he turns away from the pretty woman who awaits his order. Three other dandies sit at a table on the right sipping a drink (hot chocolate? or coffee service) and reading. Behind them through a large window is a view of the city
Description:
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: My name's Tippy Bob with a watch in each fob ..., Numbered "276" beneath lower left corner of image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 35.2 x 25.4 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Tipped in at page 243 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd 28th March 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Dandies, British, and Interiors
Page 243. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dandy, with a large hat, walking stick (or bludgeon), and spurs on his boots, stands at the counter of a shop as he turns away from the pretty woman who awaits his order. Three other dandies sit at a table on the right sipping a drink (hot chocolate? or coffee service) and reading. Behind them through a large window is a view of the city
Description:
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: My name's Tippy Bob with a watch in each fob ..., Numbered "276" beneath lower left corner of image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 28th March 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Dandies, British, and Interiors
Page 243. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dandy, with a large hat, walking stick (or bludgeon), and spurs on his boots, stands at the counter of a shop as he turns away from the pretty woman who awaits his order. Three other dandies sit at a table on the right sipping a drink (hot chocolate? or coffee service) and reading. Behind them through a large window is a view of the city
Description:
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: My name's Tippy Bob with a watch in each fob ..., Numbered "276" beneath lower left corner of image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 35.1 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm, mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 28th March 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Dandies, British, and Interiors
Walker, James, approximately 1748-approximately 1822, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.01.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Holy Family resting during the Flight into Egypt; St Joseph standing beside the donkey, drawing his cloak around him, the Virgin laying the infant Jesus on a rock, holding the edge of His garment in right hand, gesturing with the other, two cherubs standing together and watching to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arise, and take the young child, and his mother, and flee into Egypt
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in Russian and English., Bible citation "St. Math. Chap. 2, Vir. 13" follows title in English; translation of the same follows title in Russian., Dedications to Catherine II engraved beneath each title, in Russian and English. Dedication in English: Dedicated to her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress and Autocratrix of all the Russias, by her most devoted and very humble servant, James Walker., From a series of prints published by Walker in 1792: A collection of prints, from the most celebrated pictures in the gallery of her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second., "From the original picture in the Imp. Gallery.", and In Russian and English.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1792, as the act directs by Jas. Walker and W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair and R. Blamire, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Family, Biblical events, Donkeys, and Putti
"A young woman lying on her front on the ground, in loose drapery with an ointment jar beside her, reading from a large volume, propped up on right elbow, her hand to her forehead, twined in long golden curls, hanging loose over her shoulder, in a leafy leandscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly a proof state before Bible verse added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.139., Publication information from imprint on British Museum impression: London, Published Jany. 1, 1792, by A.C. de Poggi, St. George's Row, Hyde Park., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 167 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.
