Title from caption engraved below image, a quote from Alexander Pope's Essay on man, Epistle i.1.8-9., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Folly -- Fool's cap -- Musical instruments: guitar -- Wigs -- Wig-stands -- Crowns -- Gambling: playing cards -- Cornucopias -- Moon -- Masks -- Hats -- Clouds -- Vehicles: coach.
Title from item., Publisher from O'Donoghue., Publication date inferred from publisher's activity dates., Four lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: How happy could I be with either ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Travesty of The beggar's opera by John Gay (1685-1732) -- Literature: quotation from The beggar's opera -- Beggars: Casey, d. 1772 -- Strabismus., and Imprint erased from this impression.
"Satire: a group of four fashionably dressed men drinking milk supplied by a fat lady from her ass, with a man pointing and laughing behind her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to a dialog: The city macaronies drinking asses milk, at the Lacteum, in St. George's Fields., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 177., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Donkeys, Milk, and Signs (Notices)
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXVIII and No.XXIX, of Madame Meyer and Count Haslang, Bavarian resident minister in London
Alternative Title:
Count H-sl-g, Count Haslang, and Madame Meyer
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 512., and In upper left corner: Vol. II.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Sir Francis Dashwood, Baron Le Despencer and a Miss Burney
Alternative Title:
Lord S-----r, Miss Burney, and Lord Spencer
Description:
Titles etched below images., Tête-à-tête possibly from Town and country magazine, 1770?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXI and No.XXXII, of actress Ann Catley and Colonel Francis Lascelles whom she later married
Alternative Title:
Col. L-s-ll-s, Colonel Lascelles, and Miss Catley
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), p. 569., and In upper right corner: Vol. II.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXV and No.XXVI, of Miss "Polly" Gr--n and the Earl of Rochford
Alternative Title:
Miss Green, E-l of R-d, and Earl of Rochford
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 457., and In upper left corner: Vol. 2.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXIV and No.XXXV, of Miss Holland and Lord Deloraine
Alternative Title:
Lord Del-ne, Lord Deloraine, and Miss Holland
Description:
Titles from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 625., and In upper left corner: Vol. II.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No.X VII and No. XVIII, of Polly Kennedy and Lord Robert Spencer
Alternative Title:
L. R-t Sp-r and Lord Robert Spencer
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 289.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss W-tts and Richard, Lord Grosvenor
Alternative Title:
Cheshire Cornuto
Description:
Title from text below each image. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 2 (1770), page 401.