"Scene at the door of a Portsmouth brothel, a corner-house. A handsome young prostitute, elaborately dressed, with curls, feathered hat, and fluttering sash, walks from it, gazing straight before her. Behind her is a fat and hideous bawd, hands on hips, who watches her with calculating malevolence. The bawd wears a watch and seals dangling from her waist; behind her is a doorway inscribed 'Hotel', with an oil-lamp (as in No. 11454) projecting from the door-post; a bell-pull is inscribed 'Ring the Bell'. Just within the door is a dark lobby lit by a lamp hanging from the ceiling and leading to a second (closed) door in which there is a small grille or judas. On the wall of the house is the inscription 'Portsmouth Dock', and three bills: 'From the Country an Assortment of Fresh Ware'; 'A Tragedy in Rehearsal'; 'Leakes Genuine Pills'. In the background is a humbler establishment, with irregular gabled roof and a porch inscribed 'Lodgings'. A sailor stands looking up at a woman who leans from the window with outstretched arms. Flames and smoke belch from the chimney. Behind it are masts and sails."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "207" in upper right corner., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1, 1809 by Thomas Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are making towards them. In the foreground is a bustle of departure: baggage is being carried, casks are rolled, sailors and their women embrace or fight; a one-legged sailor plays a fiddle, a child plays with dogs. At the door of the 'Ship' an officer takes leave of his family; from the bow-window above spectators lean out, an officer using a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "319" has been replaced with a new number, and date in lower left corner of design has been removed from plate., Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication inferred from earlier state, which has the year "1814" etched in lower left corner of design. Cf. No. 12408 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "255" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 284-6., Watermark: 1824., and Manuscript "169" in upper center of plate.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are making towards them. In the foreground is a bustle of departure: baggage is being carried, casks are rolled, sailors and their women embrace or fight; a one-legged sailor plays a fiddle, a child plays with dogs. At the door of the 'Ship' an officer takes leave of his family; from the bow-window above spectators lean out, an officer using a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "319" has been replaced with a new number, and date in lower left corner of design has been removed from plate., Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication inferred from earlier state, which has the year "1814" etched in lower left corner of design. Cf. No. 12408 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "255" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 284-6., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 37 in volume 4.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 February 1751]
Call Number:
751.02.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ..., Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ..., Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions., "Price one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding., Mounted to 30 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
Title from dealer's description., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Inscribed on verso: Names of the Ships taken by Lord Howe on 1st of June 1794, and brought into Portsmouth Harbour; Sans Pareille 84 Guns, L'America 74, Limpetue 84, Northumberland 84, Achille 76, La Vengeur 74.
Subject (Geographic):
Portsmouth (England)
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799.
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Harbors, Warships, British, French, Crowds, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Peg legs, and Victories
Volume 2, page 43. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 43 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
