Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., Watermark: L.V.G., and Some ink wash added as additional shading to figures' clothing.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Myself
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below title: As I walk'd by my-self, I talk'd to my-self, and thus my-self said to me: Look to thy-self and take care of thy-self; for nobody cares for thee ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5265 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Young men., First of two plates on leaf 48., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Myself
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below title: As I walk'd by my-self, I talk'd to my-self, and thus my-self said to me: Look to thy-self and take care of thy-self; for nobody cares for thee ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5265 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Young men.
Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three-quarter length portrait slightly caricatured, of 'Cervetto', or Giacomo Bassevi the 'cellist (1680-1783), noted for his large nose, playing the 'cello. He sits looking downwards and to the right. An open book of music, from which he is not reading, is on a stand behind his left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and First of three plates on leaf 103.
Title from item., One line of text below image: Exitus acta probat., Plate from: London Magazine. London : Printed for J. Baldwin, v. 40 (1771) , p. 520., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: hippopotamus -- Aldermen -- Sherriffs -- Lord Mayor of London -- City arms of London -- Costume: aldermen's gown -- Emblems: sherriffs' staves -- Brass Crosby,1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1770-1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 and Bull, Frederick, ca. 1714-1784
Title from item., Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., State with Carington Bowles imprint intact., Numbered '304' in lower left of plate., Earlier state of no. 3777 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, pt. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Monks -- Women -- Sheaf of wheat -- Food: basket of provisions -- Buildings: monastery.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Leaf 55. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length caricature portrait of a man playing the musette or pastoral oboe with a double pipe and drone resembling bag-pipes. His attitude is that of a man seated on a high stool, but there is no stool and he is chiefly supported by a wooden leg formed of one of the two pipes of his instrument. The bag of the musette, held under his right arm, is a pig; he holds the animal's hind leg, which forms the second pipe, as if playing on it; in his right hand he holds its tail. He turns his head in profile to the right towards an open book of music on a music-stand. He is elderly and wears a curious tie-wig terminating in two corkscrew ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., and First of two plates on leaf 55.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Jany. 1, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Musicians, Musical instruments, Music stands, Swine, Peg legs, and Wigs
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., One line of text below image: The body, soul & mind of the Gazetier cuirassé., Companion print: The wicked in triumph., Temporary local subject terms: Litearture: Allusion to Le gazetier cuirassé by Théveneau., Mounted to 31 x 23 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Théveneau de Morande, Charles, 1741-1805 and Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793
Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bust portrait (caricature) in an oval of a very corpulent man, his enormously heavy jowl sunk between broad high shoulders. He is almost full face, looking to the right. His wig and features are small by comparison with his chin, neck, and body. Probably portrait of a man called Meek."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Mr. Meek., and Third of three plates on leaf 103.