"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Two women, seemingly courtesans, stand together by an arcade of the Piazza, Covent Garden, a place notorious for brothels. One stands full face her features, hair, and the hat which frames her hair like a halo are intended to suggest a sunflower. She holds up a small parasol with a hinged stick. The other, directed to the left, holds a closed parasol; she wears a cylindrical bonnet projecting over face and neck. Both wear clinging high-waisted dresses, with bare necks, short sleeves, long gloves, and trailing skirts. Behind is a man arranging pot-plants for sale in the market; where are also conifers. The portico of the church and adjacent buildings form a background."--British Museum online interview
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '275' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasols -- Sun Flower -- Blue Belle -- Conifers -- Covent Garden.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 12, 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A half-length portrait of Tattersall in his rostrum, leaning forward on a large open book, his head in profile to the right, his auctioneer's hammer in his (gloved) right hand. He is very bulky and wears a round hat with curved brim. The rostrum is the base of the design; it is pierced by an arched opening to give a view of a jockey on a galloping horse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 20 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Tattersall" in pencil below plate mark.
"An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Parlors, Tea, and Tea tables (Tables)
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folio's and caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Modernized Indian lady amusing herself at her leisure hours
Description:
Titles etched above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from 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: India -- Musical instruments: Pianoforte 'Clemente' -- Allusion to Muzio Clemente, 1752-1832.
Titles etched above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date 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: India.
Title from item., Number 278 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of caption below design: Husband, "How do my Dear; you must excuse me my Dear being out so late, you know I don't do it often; I happen'd to meet a brother Buck ...", Plate numbered '278' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 18, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Breakfast at Breteuil; study for a satirical print showing an interior scene with, from left to right, a postilion in enormous boots facing a bald-headed man, a rotund man being shaved by a thin man, a woman with a coffee-pot and plate with bread in front of a table, with a man eating and drinking opposite her, to the right in the middle ground a figure with his ear caught in tongs as the man curling his hair is distracted by a dog, a figure in the background holding up a shirt to cover his nudity, and in the foreground on the far r, a man pulling on a boot, with a print of the Fall of the Bastille above the fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street)
