A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two furt...
Alternative Title:
New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:
Title from print in upper right.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. Geor...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments incl...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
"John Bull (left) capers clumsily to a tune played by Pitt, Dundas, and two others. He has a drink-bloated profile, wears a round hat and old-fashioned buckled shoes. He says: "Lord love ye my good Masters - do give us something new - I be tired of al...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub March 21, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Dance, Musical instruments, and Violoncellos
"Eight groups or couples display different dances, the names of which are in the lower margin. On the extreme left stands [1] a 'Dancing Master', thin, dandified, stooping, arms dropped, fiddle and bow in left hand, feet turned out. [2] 'Country Dance...
Alternative Title:
Sketches of characteristic dancing
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 31st, 1817, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Musical instruments, Orchestras, and Trained animals
"George IV, seated in an armchair, plays a 'cello. Bloomfield stands behind, playing a flute; in his pocket is a paper: 'Farmer's Boy' [for this identification cf. (e.g.) that of Orger in British Museum Satires No. 11940]. Lady Conyngham stands beside...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 11th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Musical instruments, Violoncellos, Flutes, Trained animals, and Bears
