"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
Title etched below image., Publication year from unverified data from local card catalog record., Dated "April 2, 1801" in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Older couples.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 3rd, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A lady walks from the spectator holding out a closed parasol in her right hand; with the left she raises the back of her dress, showing a leg but letting her skirt trail on the ground. She wears a poke bonnet projecting horizontally beyond her face, a short-waisted clinging dress, with short sleeves and elbow length gloves. A frilled tippet or plastron blows back from her shoulders, forming a triangle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Back front of a lady of fashion in the year 1801
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasol -- Poke bonnet -- Frilled tippet -- Plastron.
Publisher:
Pub'd. July 28, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cattle -- Sheep -- Pigs -- Horses -- Farm animals -- Reference to Holkham.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752-1842 and Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815
Title from item., Artist supplied by cataloger., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of dialogue inscribed below design: Good lack a day John, what are you doing? you have broke all the tea things. "I can't help it Ma'am, that nasty cur[?] of yours has bit my lef." Bit your leg! has he? dear me; I hope the pretty little creature won't be sick after it!!, Numbered '259' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spilling tea service -- Tea trays -- Tea tables -- Birdcages -- Birds: parrot -- Domestic service -- Liveried Manservant.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 4, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
General peace and general war and Interview at Rhampton
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Penned note in modern hand on backing sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Penned note in modern hand on backing sheet; mounted to 48 x 28 cm.
"A box-like room is suspended in the sea by ropes on pulleys, a shaft ascending from its roof. There is no front wall, enabling sea-monsters to attack the occupants, who are four terrified little men, naked except for breeches. In each of the three walls is a barred window; through one (right) a large fish has pushed its head to seize the head of a man in its jaws, while water gushes in."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text above image., P.F.L.B. is a pseudonym of James Gillray., Reissue with altered imprint; originally published July 19, 1801, by H. Humphrey., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fishing spears -- Fishing rakes -- Fishing hooks -- Diving-machines -- Pastimes: Diving.
