Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of unidentified subjects
Alternative Title:
Compassionate lover
Description:
Titles etched below images., Plate probably from: The Oxford magazine, November 1792., 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 of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Mrs. Winter, a widow of a lieutenant in the Marines, and Lord Hillsborough, afterwards Marquis of Downshire
Alternative Title:
Noble dupe
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, October 1777 (ix, 457) with different titles and without numbers above portraits., and Variant state of No. 5419 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
"Elderly men sit and stand, all smoking long pipes; large clouds of smoke issue from their mouths, but little or nothing comes from the bowls of their pipes. Most sit or stand silently morose; two standing men (left) appear to be puffing smoke in each other's faces. One leans back, apparently asleep, but smoking. An ugly man seated on the extreme right takes the hand of a pretty young woman who stands opposite him; he holds a large key. She slips a note into the hand of a fierce-looking military officer who stands with his back to her. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'At a general meeting of this Society, it was resolv'd by a Majority of Independent members, that any member may be Indulg'd with having the Key brought him, by his Servant or hand-maid, but on no pretence whatever be followd by that bane of good fellowship calld the White Sergeant.' Above the door are framed Rules: 'Ist No Gemman to be a member of this Society who cannot smoke three pipes at one sitting - NB no Spitting 2d No members pipe to be more than 14 Inches nor less than nine unless permitted so to do by the Landlady 3d Every member to find his own Stopper 4th Any member who puffs designedly in the face of another, to be find sixpence or be puff'd at in return by the whole company 5th All fines to be spent in Porter T. Twig Secy' On the back wall is a large print of Sir Walter Raleigh seated smoking (right) while a servant raises a bucket to fling at the smoke."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoking club
Description:
Title from caption below image., Year of publication based on imprint on different state in British Museum: London, Publish'd 10 Jany. 1792 by Bull & Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill., Possible earlier state of impression in British Museum with publication line and varying statements of responsibility. Cf. no. 8220 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Added in later hand above title: Jany. 1810.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618,
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Eating & drinking, Seduction, Smoking, and Pipes (Smoking)
Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.10.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Elderly men sit and stand, all smoking long pipes; large clouds of smoke issue from their mouths, but little or nothing comes from the bowls of their pipes. Most sit or stand silently morose; two standing men (left) appear to be puffing smoke in each other's faces. One leans back, apparently asleep, but smoking. An ugly man seated on the extreme right takes the hand of a pretty young woman who stands opposite him; he holds a large key. She slips a note into the hand of a fierce-looking military officer who stands with his back to her. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'At a general meeting of this Society, it was resolv'd by a Majority of Independent members, that any member may be Indulg'd with having the Key brought him, by his Servant or hand-maid, but on no pretence whatever be followd by that bane of good fellowship calld the White Sergeant.' Above the door are framed Rules: 'Ist No Gemman to be a member of this Society who cannot smoke three pipes at one sitting - NB no Spitting 2d No members pipe to be more than 14 Inches nor less than nine unless permitted so to do by the Landlady 3d Every member to find his own Stopper 4th Any member who puffs designedly in the face of another, to be find sixpence or be puff'd at in return by the whole company 5th All fines to be spent in Porter T. Twig Secy' On the back wall is a large print of Sir Walter Raleigh seated smoking (right) while a servant raises a bucket to fling at the smoke."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoking club
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Another state or copy without publication line and with statements of responsibility: Bunbury, delt. C. Knight, sculp.
Publisher:
Publish'd 10 Jany. 1792 by Bull & Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618,
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Eating & drinking, Seduction, Smoking, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide Cymbeline, Act 4, Sc. 4.", and One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames
Alternative Title:
Conquering general
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête probably from the Oxford magazine, July 1792., 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. Subjects in the original publication are identified as the Earl of Sandwich (No.16) and Miss Martha Ray (No.15); see British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Intriguing colonel
Description:
Titles from text below images., Tête-à-tête probably from the Oxford Magazine, June 1792., and Copy, in reverse, of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, November 1769 (i, 561), with different titles and plate numbers. Cf. No. 4361 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1792]
Call Number:
792.03.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: I don't know what this is Sir ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Primers -- Furniture: wooden ladderback chair -- Architectural details: casement window with diamond pattern.
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Birdcages, Children, Classrooms, Poverty, and Teachers
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as a Colonel C. in the Guards (No. 9) and the widow of Lord 'A.H.' (No.8).
Alternative Title:
Susceptible soldier
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Copy of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, November 1777 (ix, 513), with different titles and plate numbers. Cf. No. 5420 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Title from item., Companion print published by Tomkins on the same day: Comedy., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Tragedy -- Swords -- Chalices., and Watermark: lower left side, partially cut off.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 16, 1792, by J. F. Tomkins, New Bond Street
