A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the left. Two caricature portraits hang on the background wall
Alternative Title:
Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted on paper 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Toasts, Food habits, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, and Dining rooms
A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775.
Call Number:
775.06.15.01 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple stand side by side before a rectangular tomb. The male figure is a skeleton wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and a sword; the lady wears a cloak. The tomb is decorated with the skull and crossbones and inscribed with the words "Requiescas in pace'. They stand on a road which leads to a Palladian portico, decorated with a baron's coronet. Above the couple a cupid hides his face in his hands as he turns away
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Gillray in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Also attributed to "Miss Hartley, daughter of Dr. Hartley" by Horace Walpole in his Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., Inscribed below image in two rows, a quote from Lord Hervey's Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood: ... no smiles for us the God head wears! His torch inverted & his face in tears!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, on laid paper ; sheet 234 x 204 mm.
"Satire: a scene outside an inn, the 'Old Noted Gin and Purl House. By Chris. Catch-Penny', with a fishwife on the left squaring up to a Frenchman, while others look on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poll Dab a match for the Frenchman
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Fishwomen -- Frenchmen -- Public houses, exteriors -- Signs -- Signboards -- "The Fighting Cock" -- Publicans -- Gin -- Purl -- Billingsgate -- Male wigs: bag -- Poll Dab -- Chequers.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowels, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from caption below image., Alternative title from text below title., Questionable artist attribution to Bunbury from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with imprint burnished and plate number added, of a print originally published 10 Jan. 1775 by M. Darly. Cf. no. 5313 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Plate numbered "96" in upper right corner.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man with a pointed nose in profile, wearing a hat; in an oval
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Third of three plates on leaf 102.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a man with a curved nose and profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Convex : the field preacher
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 102.
Leaf 102. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a woman with a bonnet wig and ogee-shaped profile, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ogee -- Female costume -- Female hats., and Second of three plates on leaf 102.
Two grotesque figures of a well-dressed man and woman stand before a background of Corinthian pillars topped with Doric capitals. The man points with his left hand to his mouth and grimaces at the viewer
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., First published by Carington Bowles on 20 October 1775; original publication date burnished from the plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786., Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Numbered in plate: 332.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver at their Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
