"Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left hand is a cup whose contents she is pouring on the ground. The panniers of her dress fly backwards revealing two bulging pockets, one full of guineas, the other of notes or cheques inscribed '£1000, £300', &c. She is saying: "Famish'd & spent relieving others woe, Your poor devoted Suppliant only begs, This morsel for to buy a bit of Bread." The black clouds of smoke from which the pitchfork projects rise in a pillar of cloud from the pit of the theatre where flames are indicated, from which come the words 'Encore! Encore!' In the background a temple of Fame on a mountain-top is collapsing, the pillars shattered; the figure of Fame falls backward, dropping his trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Melpomene (Mythological character) -- Purses of money -- Falling figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame -- Symbols: daggers -- Symbols: goblets -- Theater stage., and Counter watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Ambrose and Admiral Hood, candidate in the Westminster election, 1784
Alternative Title:
Approved candidate and Miss Ambrose
Description:
Titles from captions below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1784, page 513., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Bishop and George John, 2nd Earl Spencer
Alternative Title:
Rational gallant and Miss Bishop
Description:
Titles etched below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1784 p. 233., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Lucy Parsons and Sir George Amyand Cornewall (1748-1819).
Alternative Title:
Amorous baronet and Miss Lucy Parsons
Description:
Titles from text below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1784, page 457., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Volume 2, page 21. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman playing 'the ballad of Auld Robin Gray' on a harpsichord (inscribed with the maker's name Thomas Kirkman) with a dog standing at her feet, beside another is employed with needlework, a small boy leaning on her leg and reaching up towards her, a third girl stands at the back with a shuttle and thread in hand, an oval frame on the wall behind; oval design, after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 21 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 14, 1784, by T. Macklin, No. 39 Fleet Street & C. White, Stafford Row, Pimlico
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Children, Harpsichords, Needlework, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Mrs. Ross and Vincenzo Lunardi who made the first hot air balloon ascent in England
Alternative Title:
Aerial traveller and Mrs. Ross
Description:
Titles from text below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1784, page 569.
