A scene in a crowded coffee house with a mad dog on a table and terrified customers scrambling for cover. On the wall, a broadside titled: For the brasiles the Cerberuse Capn. Popitner ... bruden ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs., and Mounted to 49 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1809, by Thos. Rowlandson, No 1. James Street, Adelphi, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Crowds, Dogs, Fear, Eating & drinking facilities, and Interiors
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven members of the City Militia march out of step towards the right, 2 birds flying overhead. A short fat drummer begins the procession, followed by an officer with sword in left hand, 2 pairs of soldiers carrying bayoneted muskets, and in the rear, a hunchback carrying a spear
Description:
Title from item., Soiled at top and trimmed into image with partial loss of artist's name., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Signed (by engraver?) in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10, 1777 by MDarly ...
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Militia, Militias, Military uniforms, British, Drums, and Musketeers
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Signed "M." in the lower right corner., Earlier state without imprint date and with alterations to the design. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6557., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Election Committee -- Allusion to Wood's Hotel -- Covent Garden -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusion to political grapes -- Election favors -- Voting: plumpers -- Ballad singers -- Placards -- Key to the Back Stairs -- Allusion to Hervey Redmond, 2nd Viscount Montmorres, 1746?-1797 -- Allusion to John Churchill, , fl. 1784., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G [or C?] R.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Elections, 1784, Canvassing, and Singers
"View of Westminster Bridge from the centre of the Thames; a number of small boats in foreground; Westminster Abbey and Hall beyond bridge to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe du Pont de Westminster du cote du nord
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication from description of 19th-century reissue by Francis West; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0508.1462., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., and Leaf 22 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Thames River (England),, Westminster Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
"View looking across a small field towards the Tower, showing the moat and the river on the left; a number of figures and a carriage in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe du coté du nord-ouest de la Tour de Londres
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printsellers' street addresses. See British Museum online catalogue., and Reissue of a print originally published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for & Sold by T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & Hen. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, R. Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, & Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Title from text at top of plate., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Print based on an illustration by William Sherwin to Francis Sandford's The history of the coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687). See British Museum online catalogue., Two images on one plate, separated by four columns of text serving as a key to the upper image; upper image shows the coronation, lower image shows the implements used for the coronation., and Sheet numbered "232" in a contemporary hand in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701. and Westminster Abbey,
"The coronation of James II; interior of Westminster Abbey, the crowning of the king at bottom centre."--British Museum online catalogue and "One of a series of four prints, all based on the large plates in Sandford's 'History of the Coronation', first published by Bowles as a composite plate in the series 'London Described' (see Adams 29.8). The plate used in Sandford's book had a shorter title, no text in lower margin, and was inscribed 'W Sherwin sculp'."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Reissue of a plate first published ca. 1723 by John Bowles., Date of publication based on date of the partnership of John Bowles & Son: a partnership that lasted from 1752 to 1764. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Key to the illustration engraved below image., Plate numbered "1" in upper right corner., and Mounted on board to 29.2 x 26.0 cm/
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701 and Westminster Abbey,
"View of Buckingham House from the park; elegantly dressed figures in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Hostel de Bucingham dans la Parke de St. James
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer facing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2393., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner., Watermark: Charles Ball 1817., Leaf 39 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Buckingham Palace.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Official residences, Trees, and Pedestrians
"View looking across Covent Garden piazza, the market in progress, St Paul's Church on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Covent Garden
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck faceing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3050., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 42 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Covent Garden.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Markets, Churches, Coaches & carriages, Carts & wagons, and Sedan chairs
Façade of the bungalow in Chelsea, with colonnade at front; above at centre the royal arms, with soldiers and men holding scientific instruments on either side
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., and Formerly dated 1730.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Chelsea (London, England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Bungalows, Facades, Scientific equipment, British, and Soldiers
