"An emblematical and composite scene, with a realistic background intended for Lake Como, with the Villa d'Este (right), decorated with dancing figures as in British Museum satires no. 14171. In the foreground the Queen, between Bergami and Wood, fall...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 9 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are ab...
Alternative Title:
Road to ruin in the east!!
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed below image in black ink.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Families, and Newspaper carriers
"Copy of scene in the "Old Angle In", an inn with the sign of an angel that gives the proprietor as 'Toms. Bates', and a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand o...
Alternative Title:
Stage-coach
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
A scene outside the Bell Inn in which a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham); a clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a lecherous old gentleman (Colonel ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charteris, Francis, 1675-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Clegy, Horses, Lust, Parables, Prostitutes, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Young adults
A well dressed man sits in a carriage next to a gruff looking coach driver holding a whip; the former looks through his glass at the driver and directs him to drive to the Old Bailey
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Whips, Dandies, British, and Hand lenses
"View looking across Grosvenor Square with the oval shaped planted area with equestrian statue in the centre; a carriage, sedan chair and elegantly dressed figures in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of Grosvenor Square and Vüe de la Place de Grosvenor
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck facing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Grosvenor Square (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Row houses, Equestrian statues, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs
"View on the Strand looking towards St Mary's Church, with Somerset House on the right, a sedan chair on street to left, a carriage to the right, elegantly dressed figures and street traders on street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de L'Eglise de St. Marie dans le Strand, proche le Palais Royal de Somerset a Londres
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Strand, The (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Mary le Strand (Church : London, England), and Somerset House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Streets, Castles & palaces, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs
"View looking down Fleet Street towards Temple Bar, with St Dunstan in the West on the right; elegantly dressed figures among carriages and carts on the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of Temple Bar and St. Dunstan's Church and Vüe de Temple Barr une des porte de la villa de Londrer, LEglise de St. Dunstan
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Fleet Street (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Temple Bar (London, England), and St. Dunstan's in the West (Church : London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Streets, Churches, Gates, Carriages & coaches, and Carts & wagons
