"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : aquatint with etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 32.1 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from lower left. The title is also separated from the rest of the sheet, having been trimmed away and then mounted beneath the design.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., and Matted to 46 x 52 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"A woman grimaces as a boy holds up a mouse by the tail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 16' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: It is impossible to account for antipithies in this instance. Horror is exited by the appearance of a harmless mouse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Mice, Practical jokes, Older people, and Single women
"One of a set of four hunting-scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint; they have pleasant landscape backgrounds, with clouds. A rider (left) has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming; the horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence (right). From one pocket spout the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a cold chicken, other hounds are making with fierce intentness towards the chicken. A second rider just behind the fence pulls up his horse in alarm, a third in the background leaps over fence and ditch. See BMSats 9589-91; cf. BMSat 9592, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Food: chicken -- Beverage: wine -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A rider leans back in the saddle tugging hard at his rein; he is riding over the hounds which are yelping and squealing. Behind (right) a huntsman gallops up, shouting at the man and the hounds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntmen's skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by Hh. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, in grotesque attitudes, by the hounds who have caused two horses to fall and the third to rear."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north., One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds., and Window mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from signature on related print of similar design. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 786.09.01.12., Date of publication based on the dates of other Rowlandson etchings after Bunbury on the topic of horsemanship. See p. 36-37 in Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. i., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly one of several designs from a single plate. For other designs that may have been cut from the same sheet, see Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 781.05.10.05, Bunbury 781.05.10.06, Bunbury 786.09.01.12, and Bunbury 786.09.01.13., A greatly reduced copy of no. 7241 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider -- Allusion to York -- Sign-post to York -- Horsemanship -- Three-legged gait., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 196.
"A handsome and fashionable young man rides a spirited horse in profile to the left over a pavement of small stones. He is round-shouldered and rides with hands and feet thrust forward, a cane resting on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How to ride with elegance through the streets
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Tis not in mortals to command success, "Arrah but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Literature: quotation from Joseph Addison's Cato, I.2.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from signature on related print of similar design. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 786.09.01.12., Date of publication based on the dates of other Rowlandson etchings after Bunbury on the topic of horsemanship. See p. 36-37 in Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. i., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly one of several designs from a single plate. For other designs that may have been cut from the same sheet, see Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 781.05.10.05, Bunbury 781.05.10.06, Bunbury 786.09.01.11, and Bunbury 786.09.01.12., A greatly reduced copy of no. 7239 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider -- Horsemanship: Stopping., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 182.
