Title engraved below image., One of a series of 'Drolls.', Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Parsons -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Storytelling -- Expressions of speech: cock and bull story., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 16th 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
On the street in front of the shop of S.W. Fores & Co. a mix of Londoners -- trades people, clergy, gentleman and ladies, etc. -- fight the effects of a very strong wind: a parson loses his wig, a woman's dress is blown up over her hips revealing her large buttocks; a woman selling fish has fallen to the ground, her hat and wares strewn across the sidewalk as a man with a walking stick trips over her, etc. Above the shop window is a sign that reads "Prints &c wholesale & for expotation".
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 42 x 56 cm., matted to 49 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 28, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly and No. 57 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England) and Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Fishmongers, Men, Prints, Publishing industry, Stores & shops, Wigs, Window displays, Winds, and Women
Title from item., Two lines of verse below title: Fasting and prayer, attending the church bell ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Gluttony -- Food: roasted turkey -- Utensils: knives and forks -- Beverages -- Wine glasses -- Glass: wine bottle.
A clergy man with a bulbous nose and large wig (right) kneels before an elderly, well-dressed woman (left) who sits in a chair with a cat on her lap. She is very thin, with wrinkled face and pursed lips and wears multiple strands of pearls around her neck and wrist. Her cat hisses at her suitor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse, signed W.H., below title: Hear me, angelic object of my love ... ., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clergy, Single women, Courtship, and Marriage proposals
Design in an oval. A head with lank, unkempt hair and melancholy, twisted features, mouthing grotesquely, appears to emerge from a tub; this is a section of a tub held by the performer on a table. Reference to G.A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764).
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
Alternative Title:
Pinnacle of liberty
Description:
Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 40.4 x 30.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 26 of volume 3 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
A ragged sansculotte sits astride a lamp brackets high above a square where a crowd, all wearing bonnets-rouges and all watching the beheading of Louis XVI. He fiddles as he smiles down at the scene. Hanging below him from the same lamp post are two monks and a bishop, their hands bound. Further in the distance are more hung bodies and a cathedral in flames
Alternative Title:
Pinnacle of liberty
Description:
Title etched below image, left., One line of text below title: Religion, justice, loyalty, & all the bugbears of unenlighten'd minds, farewell!, and Mounted to 47 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Sansculottes, History, Clergy, Crowds, Fires, Guillotines (Punishment), Hangings (Executions), Liberty cap, Revolutions, and Scales
