A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apollo but with very different features, the left hand holding the stick of a broom which supports the pose. A fifth connoisseur reaches up to alter the position of the model's head. The artist stands beside his canvas facing the invaders, the left hand, holding palette and brushes, rests on the canvas; he sucks his mahl-stick with a gloomy scowl. On the extreme right a cat sits in a cradle, behind which an alarmed little boy hides. The artist's wife, with an infant in her arms, faces the fire with her back to the visitors whose unwelcome intrusion is apparent. Behind is a bed with drawn curtains. Three casts from the antique decorate the bare room. The model's coat and hat lie on the ground (right). On the far left in the foreground a dog urinates against two canvases leaning against the wall
Alternative Title:
Assemblée des connisseurs
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. The man's kettle boils over scalding his gouty foot and startling the cat, in his alarm he knocks over the table and snaps the bell-rope; the couple cavorting in the doorway are oblivious to his strife
Alternative Title:
Careless attention
Description:
Titles in French and English below image., According to Nicholas J.S. Knowles, this is a 20th century reproduction of a drawing by Rowlandson. For an etching after the same drawing, published in 1789, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.327. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 256., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Obesity, Home accidents, Household employees, House furnishings, Fireplaces, Kettles, Cats, Servants, Women domestics, and Lust
Title from item., Artist and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: L'imagination. No. 7., Originally published in Le Charivari, 18 June 1833., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol.
Publisher:
L. de Bénard rue de l'Abbaye, No. 4 and On s'abonne chez Aubert galerie véro dodat
Title from item., Date derived from French publication of: Egan, Pierce. Diorama anglais ou promenade pittoresque à Londre, Paris: Jules Didot, 1823., Print depicts a scene from Tom and Jerry, or Life in London., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Pulse, Medicines, Servants, Physicians, Guests, Medical equipment & supplies, Chamber pots, Sick persons, Bedrooms, and Fireplaces
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Below image: No. 11., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publié par F. Sinnett, éditeur Galerie Colbert, 108 and Lith. Becquet frères, à Paris
Subject (Topic):
Convalescence, Invalids, Care of the sick, Home nursing, Nurses, Medicines, Fireplaces, Dogs, and Sick persons
Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Cuisine de la poste
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., On leaf 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 7.5 x 44.4 cm., and Censored impression; the three images of Jesus Christ in the background of the design have been cut out and removed from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Kitchens, Fireplaces, Poodles, Furniture, and Snuff
Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Cuisine de la poste
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., and Watermark: W[?].
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Kitchens, Fireplaces, Poodles, Furniture, and Snuff
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1746]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
Alternative Title:
Madame du Deffand's cats and S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator., Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils., Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 64 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 and Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Cats, Furniture, and Fireplaces
