Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below imprint statement: Aubert, editeur, Galerie Vero Dodat, 31., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: French fashions -- Dandies -- Couples.
Publisher:
chez Martinet-Hautecoeur, rue du Coq St. Honore, Gihaut frères, Boulevard des Italiens, and Violet, Faub. St. Denis, No. 90
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Publisher and date of publication from other prints in the series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., First in a series of prints with variant series names on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps, Scraps, etc., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
On the right a steam-driven coach has exploded with the passengers thrown into the air. A hot air balloons with baskets shaped as a boat and the other as a carraige float above the trees. On the left a conventional carriage "Patent Safety Coach" with advertisements about insurance on the windows speeds away, man in the coach looking back in horror
Alternative Title:
March of invention
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Airships, Balloons (Aircraft), Insurance, and Steam automobiles
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publis[hin]g., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: (A scene at Bushy)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar -- Male costume: Mourning scarves -- Mourning-bands., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 214.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1830 by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, Dandies, Military officers, British, and Military uniforms
Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: 'Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?', '"I created it."', 'Created it friend?', '"Yea verily - for I said, "Let it be made, and it was made!!'.
Description:
Title from caption inscribed at bottom of design in black ink., Date based on published etching with this design, same title, and text: Pubd. Apl. 1830, by S. Gan's Southampton St. See British Museum online catalog. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., A small triangle is etched above printmaker's signature in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: West Indies., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Twelve designs, vignetted and in three rows, contrast the manners and costume of the mid-eighteenth century with those of circa 1830. The modern men are extravagantly dandified
Description:
Title from text above images., Attribution to Henry Heath and date of publication from related prints in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 11, no. 16439., Five pairs of contrasting designs in three rows on one plate, each individually captioned., Description based on imperfect impression; plate number following title has been erased., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text above images., Questionable attribution to Henry Heath and date of publication from related print in British Museum catalogue. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 16439., Five pairs of contrasting designs in three rows on one plate, each individually captioned., Plate number following title has been completely erased., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham (left), in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest, saying, 'There is no such thing as getting those Devilish Locks of Bramahs open'. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of the giraffe (see British Museum Satires No. 16108). A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quoted text below image: "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack - of Troy, brought thee his pedler's pack - vide Cleaveland., and Offset of another impression on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843
Subject (Topic):
Giraffes, Skeletons, Luggage, Clothes chests, and Cupboards
