"The Prince stands in back view, his head turned to the left. His heels are together. His powdered hair or wig has a cockatoo-like crest, worn with a very small queue, round which his coat is thickly frosted with powder, cf. BMSat 8190. His neck, as indicated by his coat-collar, is grotesquely thick, his coat has the bulky sleeves associated with Jean de Bry, see BMSat 9425, with pointed coat-tails. Under his left arm is a cocked hat. The word 'Honi . . .' appears on his garter."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prince of Wales from behind
Description:
look more modern. Cf. LewisWalpoleLibrary
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"The steward, in night-cap and slippers, sits (left) in his office, looking up with stern suspicion at a yokel in a long smock who scratches his head, saying, "Donna look so Glum your Honor - I would pay my Rent un I could but consider what a Nation bad hay time it has been." A 'Survey of the Estate', books (List of 'Tenan[ts]') are on the wall; writing-materials on a small table, on which is a 'Rental'."--British Museum online catalogue description of alternate state
"A burly and ragged Irishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Englishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (left). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin."--British Museum online catalogue
"A tall strapping Irishman wearing a flamboyant cocked hat and quasi-military uniform looks down, with a sly smile, at his squat and bedizened bride. Under his right arm is a long cudgel or shillelagh. She takes his arm and looks up rapturously. They walk (right to left) across the 'Crescent', Bath, whose houses form a background. A gouty old man on crutches behind them (right) looks sourly at them, and a chair-man (left) between the shafts of his sedan-chair, gapes in astonishment."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Shelalee leading Miss Marrowfat to the Temple of Hymen
Two vicars sit at a table in a sitting room; a painting on the wall behind them is labelled "View of the vicarage". One of the men is very fat and wears a night cap; he dozes in an arm chair, his foot on a sleeping dog at his feet, the "Oxford Journal" on the floor having apparently dropped from his hand. The other, a thinner man, pours two generous glasses of port from a full carafe, and observes to his companion "What is life without the enjoyment of a friend".
"A little elderly man lands on a steep slope after leaping a fence; he has lost his seat and sits on the horse's neck, clutching its ears, while his whip dangles from the rein. A reckless young woman (right) leaps the fence immediately behind him. Both are riding among the hounds. He wears a jockey cap, with half-boots without spurs."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney hunt
Description:
LewisWalpoleLibrary call no.: 807.07.14.01+.
Publisher:
Design'd, etched, & pubd. July 14, 1811, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi, London
"Villagers play quoits outside a gabled, thatched, and dilapidated inn, the sign: 'Asses Milk sold here' and 'Dirty Dick'. The quoits lie round a peg in the right foreground watched by a bull-dog. One man is about to throw. There is norie of the rustic prosperity and gaiety of other plates in the series. The players are in their working-clothes, some with aprons. A fat butcher drains a tankard (right) spilling its contents, and watched with anger by a lean man. A grossly fat woman with a donkey flirts shamelessly with two men, one a crippled beggar, while the animal eats from the fruit in a pannier on its back. A half-naked termagant leans over a paling to beat a bystander with her broom; behind her is a notice: 'Washing and mangling done here'. A woman carrying an infant angrily tries to drag away an absorbed spectator. In the background villagers drink and embrace, and a thin man rides a kicking donkey. A view of the grosser side of rural life, with the suggestion that these are the village wastrels."--British Museum online catalogue
