An admission ticket to a performance on 30 November 1789 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Such private theatricals at country houses became increasingly popular during the eighteenth century, with plays starting in earnest at Blenheim in 1786 and becoming so successful that a greenhouse was converted into a proper theater
Alternative Title:
Fourth night. Blenheim. Monday, November 30, 1789, will be performed ...
Description:
Letterpress ticket on card, printed on recto only. and Traces of glue on verso, probably formerly mounted in an album. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Oxfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795. and Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, and Amateur theater
In the garden of Bagnigge Wells surrounded by hedges, trees, and a fountain, a well dressed lady is plucking a rose, as another woman behind her looks on. The roof of the circular Temple is visible on the left. By the 1770s, the Bagnigge Wells resort was a notorious meeting place for amorous dalliance
Alternative Title:
No resisting temptation
Description:
Title from item., Numbered in plate: 341., Date estimated from Britsh Museum catalogue, v.5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Manuscript, on parchment, in chancery script, produced in London at the beginning of the sixteenth century (during the reign of Henry VII)., The text is an affirmation by King Henry VII of the rights given to the city of London by previous kings, It includes a copy of the charter in Old English presented by William the Conqueror affirming the rights held by the citizens of London under Edward the Confessor, and It also includes a charter granting lands from William I to Deorman
Description:
In Latin and Old English., On the wrapper is written "Thomas Binkheued who sold it to Raph Wilbraham.", The manuscript was originally a roll, as can be seen by the sewing holes extending across the bottom of each page., and Binding: vellum wrapper.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., England., Great Britain, and London (England)
"A tall, stout fish-wife has seized a fashionably dressed man round the waist and lifted him up; his hat and tasselled cane have fallen to the ground. She is neatly dressed, with a flat hat tied over her cap, a checked apron, clocked stockings, and buckled shoes, but she wears a soldier's coat over her dress. There are three spectators: a woman (right) in profile to the left, gapes with astonishment; a neatly dressed man wearing an apron standing behind a fish-stall looks on with quiet amusement; an apple-woman sits (left) grinning, arms akimbo. Beside her is a large basket heaped with a pyramid of fruit. A fish-stall and a basket have been overturned (right) and the contents lie on the ground. In the background is Billingsgate Dock, with masts and rigging; on the right is one of the market buildings, inscribed 'BILLINGSGATE'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cornish hugg
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Variant with title and verses. Cf. No. 5932 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 5th 1781 by Wm. Wells no. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court,) Fleet Street, London
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"The crowded cabin tilts to the right, to the dismay of a family party dining at a table in the foreground. There is a second table in the background with a meal in progress. The cabin is bordered on left and right by two tiers of berths, apparently for two persons, set in panelling, and with curtains festooned along the upper edge. These are filled by suffering travellers. A bench runs along the front of the berths; other passengers sit on camp-stools. Phases of misery, discomfort, resignation, and (by exception) complacency are realistically illustrated. A sailor pushes a mop-stick through an open hatch in the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly after a design by Captain Frederick Marryat. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman. Watermark '1828' on mounting sheet., and Laid on album paper.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str., London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Margate (England), England., and Margate.
Subject (Topic):
Packets, Motion sickness, Ocean travel, Description and travel, Travel, and Vomiting
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A black man, dressed as a macaroni except for his tightly curled natural wool, walks in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left is on the hilt of a short curved sword or sabre with an ornamental hilt affected by macaronis."--British Museum online catalogue and "Perhaps a caricature of Jeremiah Dyson, always called Mungo after the name had been given him in a debate by Col. Barré, 29 Jan. 1769. Mungo was a negro slave in the comic opera 'The Padlock' by Bickerstaffe, and the name implied that Dyson was kept at dirty jobs for the Government."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Politicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A black man, dressed as a macaroni except for his tightly curled natural wool, walks in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left is on the hilt of a short curved sword or sabre with an ornamental hilt affected by macaronis."--British Museum online catalogue and "Perhaps a caricature of Jeremiah Dyson, always called Mungo after the name had been given him in a debate by Col. Barré, 29 Jan. 1769. Mungo was a negro slave in the comic opera 'The Padlock' by Bickerstaffe, and the name implied that Dyson was kept at dirty jobs for the Government."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Second of three plates on leaf 83., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Politicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
