"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish provisions were sent to the Roe Buck in 'the Forest'. The Club went on horseback, butter was hidden in the lining of one member's hat; he was induced to believe that he had 'sweating sickness', and was put to bed instead of sharing the feast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Four columns of verse below title: Tom Ruby was a merry wag as any in the town, and he full fifteen years had worn and grac'd the civic gown ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fevers -- Anecdotes.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
A young woman sits on the edge of a bed hung with curtains, as an older woman points accusingly at her, an angry look on her face and a pair of men's breeches in her hand. The young woman has a look of shame and sorrow on her face as she holds a cloth to her head
Description:
Title etched below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: Lurks there a vice in female breast? Like wind, It rages most when most it is confin'd. It will have Vent, to shew uys plainly still, That female Wit, can rival female Will.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Mothers, Trousers, Women, and Young adults
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title etched below image., "RS" is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Imprint continues: ... who has great variety of humorous prints., Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark with partial loss of price statement from lower right. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Price one shilling.", and Mounted to 24 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title from item., Undated reissue by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., R.S. is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Date of publication conjectured from Holland's occupancy of 50 Oxford Street, known to be from 1782 to 1803.
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who is also grasped by a small Black servant. The lady's lapdog looks on from the bed, while a monkey on the floor opens a book entitled "Fashion's victim: a satire"
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item., Date of printing based on watermark., Place of publication and publisher from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number., Originally issued by Carington Bowles after June 1777, then re-issued (with date burnished from the plate) by Bowles & Carver., Plate number: 362. Cf. Untrimmed impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing table may be seen to the left
Alternative Title:
Hold fast behind
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 29, V. 2.
"A pretty and elegant young woman kneels on a bed supporting her elbows on the pillow. A woman stands beside her raising the girl's skirt in order to birch her, but finds her posterior covered by a life-sized mask which is a close portrait of herself. She says: "Oh ma foi! dot is mine own Head in t'oder place.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Governess outwitted
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A close copy in reverse of print published by Holland in 1799: The governess delineated, or, A pretty face spoiled. Note from Andrew Edmunds April 2019., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on brown paper backing to 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1817 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Governesses, Child discipline, Beds, Masks, and Young adults
"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert, dancing to the fiddle of George Hanger (right), advance towards an open door (left) through which is seen a large bed, the curtains raised; above the pillows are a crown and triple plume. The feathers are repeated on a chamber-pot under the raised valance of the bed. They are more elaborately dressed than in BMSat 6924; their arms are round each other's waists, the Prince holds with his right hand the left hand of Mrs. Fitzherbert. She wears a small crown, with flowers and ribbons, and triple ostrich plume. George Hanger is dressed as in BMSat 6924; he stands in profile to the left, watching the couple fixedly; a bludgeon hangs from his wrist. An open music-book at his feet shows that he is playing the 'Black Joke'. On the floor (left) are an open book, 'Matrimony', and a torn paper, 'Cirtificate'. Over the door is a picture of Cupid with his bow turning away from Danaë receiving the shower of gold."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wedding night, or, The fashionable frolic, Fashonable frolic, and Fashionable frolic
Description:
Title etched below image., In lower right corner: Price 2 sh. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Pictures amplify subject -- Emblem: Ostrich feathers for Prince of Wales -- Music books -- Song: 'The Black Joke' -- Furniture -- Colonel's uniform, Light Infantry -- Violin -- Danae -- Mythological characters -- Lighting: Chandelier -- Sticks: Bludgeon., and On verso in pencil: George T. Stubbs attrib. by J. Riely, 7-29-83.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Phillips, No. 164 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Chamber pots, Crowns, Cupids, Dancers, Military uniforms, British, and Musical instruments
