Title from text below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Highlanders -- Male costume: highlander chieftain.
A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dr. Herring Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Herring
Description:
Title etched around image., C. Mosley after a painting by William Hogarth. See Catalogue of Engraved British portraits., Date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., A portrait of the Archbishop at the head of an engraved speech., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and Formerly on page 122 in volume 2. Remove in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. and Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757
A river and rocks in the foreground; the abbey and palace of Dunfermline in the distance; trees throughout the scene
Alternative Title:
Abbey & Palace of Dunfermline and Abbey and Palace of Dumfermline
Description:
Title etched below image. and Titled 'A Copy of ditto, coloured.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 1, 1792, by F. Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street
Lord Monboddo is seated at a writing table in his study regarding the viewer intently
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, 1837., and Printmaker from no. 6694 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires
Engraved title page., Date of publication transposed following place of publication., With original marble wrappers on printed sheet and a front label: Cries of Edinburgh (Plain.) Price sixpence., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street
An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
