"Dedication sheet 'To the Queen' from the singer Harriet Abrams; three cherubs sitting facing right, singing, on clouds which curve up and support a lyre and laurel above them, below a crown in rays of light; for an unidentified publication."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Print possibly designed as the frontispiece or title page for a musical work dedicated to Queen Charlotte. See Wright. and Title from text in image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Many heads, grotesque and otherwise, are grouped round an oval space ... . The figures along the lower margin are half length, and look upwards. Some seem to be characters in a masquerade. They include (above): an ugly old parson preaching (the centre figure), flanked by a doctor sniffing a medicine-bottle, and a lawyer shouting from his 'Brief'. Above him is the head and arm of a soldier, in violent action, and with a skull (Death) grinning at his unconscious profile. There are also (inter multa alia) a pretty young woman with an infant, a grossly drink-blotched monk holding a bottle, a devil clasping a young woman wearing a small mask across her eyes, a witch with a broom, a Chinese, a Turk. ... This title-page is not used in either of two sets of the [Caricature] magazine inspected."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state.
Alternative Title:
Mirror of mirth
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Date from Grego; the British Museum catalogue suggests a date of 1809., For a proof state before letters, see no. 11458 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Probably a title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?]., and Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"The words are framed by a curtain, held back at the sides by 'Mrs Clarke' (left) and 'Colonel Wardle' (right), who stand on low round pedestals, as if flanking a proscenium. Both point to the inscription. The curtain is centred above by a group composed of the Duke's cocked hat and sword, with mitre and crosier (see British Museum Satires No. 11227) on a scale larger than the two figures. On the ground, between the curtains, the space is filled by a large open book: 'Thou shalt not commit Adultery' and by papers inscribed 'Dearest Dear' and 'My Darling.', with inkpot and pen."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably the title page to a series of prints., Three lines of text below title: "Out of evil cometh good." Learn to be wise from others harm, and thou shall do full well., Title continues: ... and the circumstances arising from the investigation of the conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York before the House of Commons, 1809., and Title from text in center of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd,--1762?-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Frontispiece to forty-nine (coloured) plates, see British Museum Satires nos. 10816-63. The title, &c., is engraved on a framed tablet supported on a stone base in front of which are figures. An aged miser, moribund and toothless, seated in an armchair which is also a commode, is violently jolted by Death (left), a skeleton, who seizes the chair and tilts it backwards. The man has swathed gouty legs and holds a crutch; he wears a nightcap and dressing gown. Death has dropped his hour-glass. The old man looks with impotent anger at his young wife and her lover (right) who with defiant exultation pillage his 'Strong Box'. She has taken out money-bags, and holds up to him one inscribed 'Pin Money'; her foot rests on a 'Post Obit'. The young man is behind her, running forward, and holding up a bag of 'Pocket Pieces' whose contents he scatters. Beside him on the ground are a paper: 'Sale of Timber', and a book: 'Turf Callender - Cock Fighting'. Above the tablet are swags of leaves supported by a tragic and a comic mask. From the ends are suspended (left) a tambourine, (right) pan-pipes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Title etched within image., and Title page to: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808].
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Above title are the phrases "Ever changing," "Ever new," and "Vive la bagatelle.", Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Reissue of the title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Reissue, with altered publication date, of a plate first published in 1809. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Title from text in center of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.