"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
Title etched below image., Publication year from unverified data from local card catalog record., Dated "April 2, 1801" in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Older couples.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 3rd, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title from item., Artist supplied by cataloger., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of dialogue inscribed below design: Good lack a day John, what are you doing? you have broke all the tea things. "I can't help it Ma'am, that nasty cur[?] of yours has bit my lef." Bit your leg! has he? dear me; I hope the pretty little creature won't be sick after it!!, Numbered '259' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spilling tea service -- Tea trays -- Tea tables -- Birdcages -- Birds: parrot -- Domestic service -- Liveried Manservant.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 4, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
John Bull winks his eye and licks his lip as he embraces a homely, larger woman with a patched-dress with warts on her face. His top hat, cane, and gloves are on a table to the right. In a speech bubble above his head: Come, come, no grinning!! A bad piece is better than no piece at all
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Bolingbroke leading the captive Richard through London on horseback, the former on a white charger holding his crown, to the great acclaim of the people, including two ladies who hold up garlands of flowers on the right, Richard receiving the opprobrium of men to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Also lettered below image "Shakspeare", along with fifteen lines from the play, given to the character York; "York: Then as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke ... And thus still doing, thus he past along.", and Numbered '57' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4,1801, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400, and Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413
"A woman, elderly, short, and broad, with swarthy Jewish features, stands, her head turned in profile to the right, holding a goose perched on her forefinger. In her right hand is the end of a ribbon attached to its leg. She says: "Say little foolish Fluttering thing". Her head is covered with dark curls in which are flowers and a ribbon. She wears a short-waisted dress, with the slashed and vandyked bodice associated with the stage or (in caricature) with Spain. The background, with cast shadows, suggests the stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Young men and women playing in a field, throwing hay at each other
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Number 256 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '260' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 14th, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
