Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.24.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man and three fishwives toss a well-dressed young gentleman in a blanket. The latter wears a sword and huge buttons on his coat. Tubs of oysters and fish occupy the background with some large fish in the foreground
Alternative Title:
All fashion, no weight
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with some loss to image., Signed in plate by engraver(?) WH, probably William Humphrey., and Inlaid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 24 April 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Fishmongers, and Clothing & dress
A richly dressed but grotesque and balding old lady sits before her dressing table holding a lap dog and attended by a leering hairdresser and his assistant. The former places on her head a huge wig with side curls, flowers on the front and a profusion of ostrich plumes on top. Draperies adorn the dressing table and window, and patterned wall paper and carpet are visible
Alternative Title:
New fashioned head dress for young misses of three score and ten
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Clothing & dress, and Interiors
On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
Alternative Title:
Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
Publisher:
Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
publishd. according to act of Parliament the 30 Octobr. 1777.
Call Number:
777.10.30.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A print showing the front elevation of a brothel, with a sign over the door "Young Ladies Educated & Board." At the threshold of the establishment, the brothel keeper (possibly Charlotte Hayes) stands at the front door talking with a young man who holds a riding crop (possibly her common-law husband, Dennis O’Kelly.) The two windows on the ground floor show, on the left, a woman entertaining a portly gentleman, and, on the right, two pretty, young woman, one leaning out the window to view the scene at the door. In the two windows on the upper, left and center, two other women are already entertaining men (one of whom is a clergyman) while on the right, two pretty women look down at the scene on the brothel threshold. On the left, a man reads handbills in a covered alley identified as "Kings Place." On the sidewalk (left) a pedestrian holds a monocle to his eye to better see the women; in his pocket is a paper with a title "Economical Lowe[r?]. On the sidewalk to the right, a flower girl in ragged clothes holds out a bunch of flowers to the young man addressing the madam. A woman (dwarf) crier holds a sheet titled "The Harlot's Progress."
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Hayes, Charlotte, 1725-1813, and O’Kelly, Dennis, 1725-1787,
A young man with a large nosegay in his lapel, holding a tasselled walking stick in his left hand and facing right wears the oversized shoe buckles and enormous buttons of the day, as well as a round hat with the brim held up on the sides by bands looped around a large button on the top
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Title varies slightly from that given in British Museum catalogue: "I'm the thing..."., and Numbered in plate at top: 23, V.2.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 109. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Intermediate state of the plate, after additional drypoint shading added but before title changed. For an earlier state with less drypoint shading, see no. 4730 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 109. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Earliest state of the plate, before additional drypoint shading added and before title changed. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
Profile head of a woman facing right with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper three quarters of the plate. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with fruits, including melons, pears, and grapes, with, a basket of peaches at the summit, and others of plums and raspberries
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and by the artist [?] [Miss] Bath on the right., and Numbered in plate at top: 17, V.2.
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.