A half-length portrait in profile of a clergyman wearing spectacles and a wig. He holds a stack of paper in his right hand, while his left hand is raised with his finger pointing upward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sitter tentatively identified as Edward Bearcroft., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Clergy, Eyeglasses, Lawyers, and Wigs
Title devised by curator., Self-portrait. See Thieme-Becker., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Satiric self-portraits -- Artists' self-portraits.
"Heading to a set of verses printed in two columns, and purporting to be a song made formerly by the boys of Westminster School on an application from 'Mrs Anna Davis' to Dr. Smith (see BMSat 4921, &c.) 'to whip Master Lloyd and some other boys who kept bantam fowls in a yard adjoining her house and disturbed her much . . .'. An ugly old maid in a half-tester bed sits up and frowns angrily at a grinning schoolboy (left) who stands just within the open door holding a cock. On a chair by her bed is a lighted candle, 'Ovid's Art of Love', and a pair of spectacles. Her stays and shoes lie on the floor. The verses are directed 'to Mr Holland' by 'Pedagogue' on the occasion of Mrs. Davis's death: they relate that Mrs. Anna Davis, an elderly prude, had amorous desires towards 'charming Jacky Lloyd'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To Mr. Holland
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Illustration to verse To Mr. Holland, printed below the plate and purporting to be a song written by the boys of Westminster school upon the death of Anna Davis., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe, admittance one shilling., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: beds -- Chairs -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furnishings: chamber pots -- Women: old maids -- Schoolboys -- Birds: cockrels -- Spectacles -- Images amplifying subject: Ovid's Art of Love -- Female costume: stays.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 7th, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
"Heading to a set of verses printed in two columns, and purporting to be a song made formerly by the boys of Westminster School on an application from 'Mrs Anna Davis' to Dr. Smith (see BMSat 4921, &c.) 'to whip Master Lloyd and some other boys who kept bantam fowls in a yard adjoining her house and disturbed her much . . .'. An ugly old maid in a half-tester bed sits up and frowns angrily at a grinning schoolboy (left) who stands just within the open door holding a cock. On a chair by her bed is a lighted candle, 'Ovid's Art of Love', and a pair of spectacles. Her stays and shoes lie on the floor. The verses are directed 'to Mr Holland' by 'Pedagogue' on the occasion of Mrs. Davis's death: they relate that Mrs. Anna Davis, an elderly prude, had amorous desires towards 'charming Jacky Lloyd'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To Mr. Holland
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark (plate mark 18.7 x 23.8 cm.) on top and sides., Imprint etched below image: London, Pubd. July 7, 1791 by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Letterpress caption title "To Mr. Holland" printed below the plate., Song purported to have been written by the boys of Westminster school upon the death of Anna Davis., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: ... of whom may be had, lately published, ... [list of print titles]., Variant of no. 8002 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Watermark: countermark I V.
"Two Jewish clothesmen outside a respectable mansion at right, buying clothes from an unimpressed housemaid standing in the doorway with a bundle under her arm and a clothes-pail on the step, one man standing with one foot on the doorstep and one on the street, holding up a pair of breeches, the other putting his hand through a hole in the seat; behind at left, a milkman settling his account with a housemaid in another doorway, two maids leaning out of windows on the first floor above and conversing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Printmaker signature "Rowlandson fect." etched in lower left corner of design; additional signature "PM: A:Ja. [?] fct. [or fet.]" very faintly lettered in aquatint on doorstep in lower right portion of image., Artist attribution to Henry Wigstead from Nicholas J.S. Knowles., Perhaps an early state (lacking title) of a plate first published by S.W. Fores in 1791, and then republished by him on 16 December 1794; see Grego. See also British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.647., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
S.W. Fores
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Peddlers, Clothing & dress, Women domestics, Pails, and Milkmen
