"Lunardi, slim and handsome, walks diagonally towards the spectator from the right, supported on a staff, his left hand held out as if begging. On his back is his collapsed balloon, a large bundle from which project a net and two oars or propellers. His dress is fashionable but ragged. In the background are trees and a church."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state of similar composition.
Alternative Title:
Itinerant aeronaut
Description:
Eight lines of verse below title: Behold an hero comely tall and fair! His only food phlogisticated air! ..., Later state, with plate shortened on bottom edge resulting in loss of imprint. Cf. No. 6858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Printmaker and date from earlier state in British Museum catalogue., and Title from caption below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Lunardi, Vincent,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"Five elderly barristers are grouped round an oblong table on which are writing-materials; all wear large tie-wigs. The client sits 'chapeau-bras', hands on knees, in an arm-chair (left), listening with gaping mouth and stupidly eager expression. He appears to be a boorish country gentleman in London dress. The counsel beside him reads from a large document: 'Know all men by these presents'. Another also reads. Two others watch and listen with cynical intentness. The fifth (right), an aged man wearing gauntlet gloves, sits with closed eyes in an arm-chair facing the client. On the wall are pinned legal notices: 'Court of Kings Bench Dn Common Pleas ... [&c.]'. Heavy folios lie open on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Rowlandson's works., Reissue of a plate published by W. Hunter on 21 December 1785. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 173., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"A mail-coach, driven right to left, is overturning, the off back wheel having fallen off. The near horse is falling, the other rears violently. The driver has dropped the reins and holds up his arms; he is hidden by the guard seated on his left who falls backwards, his blunderbuss is going off and shatters the roof of the coach, causing letters and letter-bags to fly into the air. A pistol at his side is also going off; it fires point-blank at the bare posteriors of an elderly woman who has fallen head downwards, screaming, her person much exposed; she was apparently an outside passenger. A man puts his head and arms out of the coach-window, shouting in terror. On the centre panel of the coach and above the Royal Arms is inscribed 'The Mail Coach'; on each side panel, 'GR'. In the background (right) is a signpost pointing to the left, 'To Bath'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Persons and property protected
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, Carracature Ware-House, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Two officers of high rank sit together in a cabin, gambling intently at cup (actually spike) and ball. One (left) wears a star; the other, who is older and stouter, watches the dangling ball held by his companion. At their feet is a pile of coins on papers inscribed 'Twenty Pound'. Under the former's foot is a plan of 'Fotification [sic]', under the latter's a large wall-plan of the disposition of a fleet, on which land and 'Ocean' are marked. On the broad many-paned window behind them hangs ramed plan of celestial and terrestrial globes inscribed respectively 'Celiastial' and 'Teristial'. Behind (right), a burly sailor pours out tea for the two effeminate officers, with an expression of pained contempt."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
Description:
Final words of burnished imprint statement barely visible below title: [...?] Oxford Street., Later state, with title altered and imprint statement burnished out, of a print published in 1785 with the title: Sea amusement, or, Commanders-in-Chief of cup and ball on a cruise. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 176-8., Probably published before 1802, when the imprint "Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly" was added and the plate reissued. Cf. No. 9875 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"[Left image] The Prince of Wales (right), wearing his star, kneels at the feet of a lady (left), his right hand holds her left hand, his left hand is on his breast. The lady wears a large feathered hat and has some resemblance to the Duchess of Devonshire, cf. BMSat 6263, &c, none to Mrs. Fitzherbert. [Right image] A sailor with a wooden leg and a good-looking young woman of meretricious appearance sit side by side on a barrel; he pours wine into a glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition.
Alternative Title:
Courtship in low life.
Description:
Also attributed to Rowlandson by Grego and the British Museum catalogue., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 170-1., Reissue, with new publication line, of a print originally issued 15 December 1785. Cf. Nos. 6870, and 6871 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Titles etched below images., and Two images on one plate, each individually titled.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"A companion print to BMSat 6790. Fox in the foreground (right) leans back disconsolately in a low chair; in his right hand is an empty purse, in the left 'Pitts Speech'. Beside him in his upturned hat are a dice-box and dice. On the left Burke, stripped to the waist, kneels before his three-legged stool on which is propped an open book inscribed 'Reform'; he is flagellating himself with a birch-rod held in his right hand, and a rosary attached to a cross in his left. Behind, as if seen in a camera obscura or through a window, North is embracing a young woman wearing tattered garments; above their heads is the view of an avenue inscribed 'St James's Park'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., and North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
"An eloping couple drive headlong in a coach and four (right to left) pursued by an angry father on a galloping horse who shakes his whip at them. He is followed by three grooms on horseback. The man leans from the off window of the coach, the lady from the near window; both aim pistols at the father who is close behind them. Two postilions ride the near horses. A signpost (right) points 'To Gretna Green'. A group of trees and a cloud of dust form the background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Trip to Gretna Green
Description:
Printmaker and publication date from Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coach -- Elopements -- Pursuit of elopers -- Guns: pistols -- Postillions -- Signs: sign posts., and Title etched below item.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless horse."--British Museum online catalogue, description of trimmed impression lacking imprint statement.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly the same plate as an impression in the British Museum, from which the imprint statement might have been trimmed. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.207., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. R. Smith, no. 83 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition.
Alternative Title:
Love.
Description:
For a later state with altered signatures, see nos. 8738 and 8739 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Titles etched below images., and Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed.
Publisher:
T. Smith, No. 6 Wardour Street Soho
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
