Elegant and affluent customers enjoy ices in a grand room in London's fashionable St. James's. The female server behind the counter is elegantly dressed and looks with ease out of the window. A finely dressed gentleman leans against the counter at right, spooning ice cream into his mouth from a glass he holds in his left hand; his hat, gloves, and stick are carefully arranged on a chair next him. Two women are seated at the left side of the counter, one holding an ice cream glass and spoon. A classical fireplace on the right has additional glasses arranged upon it. A great craze in 18th-century Britain, amongst the wealthy, was ice cream. Establishments such as The Pineapple on Berkeley Square (close by St James’s), owned by Domenico Negri, offered "All Sorts of Ice, Fruits & Creams" (see the elaborate trade card in the British Museum). This print was intended as a companion piece to "Refreshment at St. Giles's" which, in contrast, shows two women and a man being served gin by a female proprietor from a makeshift and run-down bar
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint James's
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state, with remnants of a burnished imprint statement visible beneath title. Publication information inferred from imprint "London, Publish'd June 1st, 1789, by G.T. Stubbs, No. 2 Compton Street, Soho" present on companion print; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0315.6.36., Companion print to: Refreshment at St. Giles's., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
G.T. Stubbs
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Ice cream & ices, Eating & drinking, and Fireplaces
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint continued in lower right corner: "Whare [sic] may be had the Death ['Death' crossed out and replaced with] Funeral Prosession of Miss Regency & the prosession of the Train ['of the Train' crossed out and replaced with] to St. Pauls.", Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: loyalty to George III during Regency -- Slogans: loyalty to George III during Regency -- Sarah (West), Baroness Archer, 1741-1801., Watermark: countermark I Taylor., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Aprill [sic] 22, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint continued in lower right corner: whare [sic] may be had the funeral prossesion [sic] of Miss Regency., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: loyalty to George III during Regency -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Slogans: loyalty to George III during Regency -- Interiors: dressing rooms -- Furniture: dressing tables -- Barbers., and Watermark: countermark, initial W.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprill [sic] 24, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[January 1789]
Call Number:
789.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fox, wearing a coat, hangs in profile to the right from a very high gibbet. His large brush is inscribed 'Hereditary Right' (cf. British Museum Satires 7381); he is excreting, the ordure being inscribed 'Run my Mead'. Above the gibbet is a scroll: 'The Man of the People High in Office'. Three women caper delightedly round the foot of the gallows: Justice (with the head of Thurlow) (left), with her scales evenly balanced, but with her bandage pushed up so that she can see, and holding her sword against her shoulder, its blade inscribed 'Household' continued; she sings, "Let's joyful Dance and merry Sing". Britannia (right) sings "for Ch--l--y [Fox] is quite the thing"; her shield is inscribed 'No Peers No Pensions', an allusion to the Regency Restrictions. Her profile appears to be intended for that of Pitt. Liberty, with the head of Wilkes, squinting violently, who is between the other two, cries "Huzza". The cap of Liberty (on its staff) is inscribed with the City arms and the motto 'Address', in reference to the City address of thanks to Pitt and the Ministry for maintaining the right of Parliament in the establishment of a regency."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date at end of imprint statement is illegible; date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Removed from backing with remnants of blue paper on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Regency, Politics and government, Gallows, Justice, and Liberty
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Allusion to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1755-1793 -- Allusion to Marquise de Vasse, fl. 1789 -- Allusion to the Marquise de Vasse, fl. 1789 -- Allusion to the French Revolution -- Flight of French immigrants -- Scatology -- French officers -- Signs: signpost -- Boulogne -- Dover -- Allusion to spa -- French revolutionary flag -- Boats: row-boat -- French National Guards -- Naval uniforms: sailors -- Coast of France -- Allusion to Spain?, and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29 by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccaddily [sic]
Subject (Name):
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802, Broglie, Victor François, Duc de, 1718-1804, Breteuil, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de, 1730-1807, Montmorency Luxembourg, Anne-Charles-Sigismond, duc de, 1737-1803, Montmorency Luxembourg, Madeleine-Suzanne-Adèlaide de Voyer d'Argenson de Palmy, duchesse de, 1752-1813, Massereene, Clotworthy Skeffington, Earl of, 1743-1805, Polignac, Yolande-Martine-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de, 1749?-1793, Polignac, Diane, comtesse de, Lamotte, Jeanne de Luz de Saint-Remy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791, and Lamotte, Marc-Antoine-Nicolas, comte de
"Lady Charlotte Gordon and Col. Lennox leap over a broom which lies on the floor; she holds him by the left wrist and points towards a nuptial bed decorated with a coat of arms (that of the Duke of Gordon, freely sketched) and ducal coronet. The Duchess of Gordon (right) sits in profile to the left playing bagpipes and looking at the couple with a satisfied smile. Behind her chair is a bottle, inscribed 'Scotch Pint', and a wine-glass. Lennox wears regimentals and a hat, his right arm is held up as if dancing a Scots reel; a pair of pistols (an allusion to his duel with the Duke of York, see BMSat 7531, &c.) protrudes from his pocket. Lady Charlotte wears a large feathered hat. It is clear from her attitude and the expression of the Duchess that the bridegroom, though willing, has not taken the initiative."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to either Henry Wigstead or William Holland in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement below title: "In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humourous prints. Admitance [sic] One Shilling.", and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and initials CS below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819, Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte, Duchess of, 1768-1842, and Gordon, Jane Maxwell Gordon, Duchess of, d. 1812
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, Bagpipes, Bed, Bedrooms, Brooms, Glassware, Handguns, Military uniforms, British, and Musical instruments
"Alderman Boydell stands within a magic circle, directing a sacrifice of Shakespeare's plays; these are burning at his feet; the dense smoke which rises from the fire obscures a monument to Shakespeare, concealing the head and shoulders of a figure of Shakespeare in bas-relief pointing to the inscription on the monument (as in Kent's monument in Westminster Abbey)" ... Beside the fire (right) stands on end a huge volume inscribed 'List of Subscribers to the Sacrifice'. On it sits an aged gnome-like creature with a large head, symbolizing Avarice; under each skinny arm he clutches a large money-bag inscribed '£'. On his shoulders stands an infant blowing from a tobacco-pipe the bubble of 'Immortality'; he wears a head-dress of peacock's feathers, symbolizing Vanity. Boydell, who wears a furred alderman's robe, looks fixedly at Avarice, who returns his cunning smile; with his left hand he points to the fire. He is less caricatured than savagely depicted, the realism of his figure contrasting with the fantasy of the design. An evil-looking creature wearing a fool's cap crouches by the fire (right) blowing it with bellows. He is a caricature of the fool in West's picture of Lear (iii. 2). The smoke as it rises expands into heavy clouds which support various figures, more or less travestied, from the pictures commissioned by Boydell for his Shakespeare Gallery. ... In the upper part of the design is an infant at a woman's breast attended by two other figures. This does not appear to be from the Shakespeare Gallery. ... On the ground and just within the magic circle kneels a ragged boy with palette and brushes who is pushing another boy, holding an engraver's tool, outside the circle, which is inscribed in large letters: 'ΟΥΔΕΙΣ ΑΜΟΥΣΟΣ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ' ... Behind the boys and in the background is the temple of Fame on a mountain-top. Fame, poised on the apex of the temple, blows upwards from her trumpet a blast of bubbles ...--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Offering to avarice
Description:
Title etched below image., Advertisement etched below title: Soon as possible will be publishd., price one guinea, N. 1 of Shakespeare Illustrated, with the text, annotations, &c. complete; the engravings to be carried on in imitation of the aldermans liberal plan, further particulars will shortly be given in all the public papers., "Price 5 sh.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Price completely erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Isaac Cruikshank based on faint "I.C" signature in lower right corner of image., Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1969,0719.2. For a different English copy of the same design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2007,7058.4., "Dor. Bssi."--Lower left margin., "CAP: &"--Lower right margin., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters -- Water closets -- Dr. Bossey., and Contemporary annotation in ink below title: 'Tis only experiences that teaches proper remedies.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
"A boxing scene (two couples): the Prince of Wales and Hanger are worsted by d'Eon and St. George. In the foreground (right) Hanger staggers backwards under the attack of St. George; his hat and bludgeon are on the ground beside him. St. George says, "Now in de Mouth, den in de Eye, & den where you like." Behind and on the left the Prince stands limply in front of an arched doorway. The Chevalier d'Eon, in profile to the left, faces the Prince with clenched fists. His dress and attitude recall the print of the famous fencing-match at Carlton House on 9 Apr. 1787, [Reproduced, Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, ii. 46; attributed to Picot after Robineau. Attributed by Wright and Evans to Gillray, and reprinted in Bohn's 'Gillray', 1851 (No. 375).] though he is in the position of a boxer, not of a fencer. He wears a frilled muslin cap and fichu, with ruffled elbow sleeves as in that print; he says "vill you have de toder Stroke". The Prince, putting his right hand to his eye, says, "no no I find I cant Stand up to yow now I'm done, Oh! my Eye." His feathered hat is at his feet. Behind him is the curving baluster of a descending staircase. On the wall is the inscription: 'Gentlemen and Ladies Taught the polite Arts of Boxing, Fencing &c &c by------George & ------D'Eon'. On the left hang two crossed foils with a pair of fencing-masks. On the right is a picture of St. George in classical draperies riding down an ass which he transfixes with his spear."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. George and the dragon and Madmoiselle riposting
Description:
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm; subjects identified on mat below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 12, 1789 by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
