Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement below image in lower right: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., One of a set of eight plates, each composed of three bordered horizontal strips, that were evidently intended to be cut up to form a border., Temporary local subject terms: Lillipution figures., Watermark: J. Whatman 1822., and Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., One of a set of eight plates, each composed of three bordered horizontal strips, that were evidently intended to be cut up to form a border., Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement below image in lower right: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Lillipution figures -- Tea service., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1826.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 7th, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[15 December 1823] and [printed approximately 1823]
Call Number:
800.12.15.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lillipution figures
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., One of a set of eight plates, each composed of three bordered horizontal strips, that were evidently intended to be cut up to form a border., and Watermark: Fellows 1823.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 15th by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Picadilly [sic], corner of Sackville St.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker's name in lower left corner of plate illegible., Publisher statement appears within image; publication date in lower right corner below image., Publisher's name possibly fictitious., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Closets -- Military officers -- Young women -- Parents -- Crying -- Dogs., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
"No. 6. A ballad-singer (three-quarter length) bawls a ballad; at her back is an infant, another is beside her, both bawling. Her song: 'What's Life without Passion, sweet Passion of Love'. An elderly bearded Jew is close beside her, hands clasped, looking up in ecstasy. Beneath the design: 'Melody produces Rapture, as exemplified in the Jew Cloathsman's rapturous attention to the Vocal strains of the Ballad-singer & her Family.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Two lines of text below image: Melody produces rapture, as exemplified in the Jew cloathsman's rapturous attention to the vocal strains of the ballad-singer & her family., 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., Cf. State with plate no. See No 9628 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: ballad-singer -- Used clothing -- Jews -- Singing -- Children.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.5.48., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A copy in reverse of no. 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Soldiers -- Volunteers -- Clerks -- Sign: "The Old Fortune" -- Town centers -- Castle gate -- Pictures amplify subject., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 239.
Leaf 49. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This procession of drenched spectators return from a royal review of the volunteers corps of London held in Hyde Park on June 4, 1800. Unfortunately the event was spoiled by heavy rain and we see women in light summer dresses and slipper-like shoes trying to keep themselves from getting covered in mud."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike, with added title. For an earlier state lacking title, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.482., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. June 1800; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 49 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Medical education, Physicians, Signs (Notices), Skeletons, and Skulls
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered 'No. 12' 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., and Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Death, Dogs, Older people, Servants, and Single women
