"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kne...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious f...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious f...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled:...
A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled:...
Alternative Title:
Milk Street in an uproar
Description:
Title from text in upper left.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 30, 1817, by G. Blackman Junr., 362 Oxford Strt
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two barristers in wig and gown fight furiously with umbrellas. The aggressor (right), with outstretched left fist, rushes at his enemy with a closed umbrella which terminates in a long spike. The other, Adolphus, with legs wide astride, uses an open ...
Alternative Title:
Learned Adolphus, or, A legal construction of rogues and vagrants and Legal construction of rogues and vagrants
Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two Thames watermen stand on the river bank gaping at the explosion of a steam packet-boat, whose stern is inscribed 'For Richmond'. Wreckage flies into the air carrying with it a number of passengers, men and women, who are flung about in a dense cl...
