Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so much smoking business in my parlour that 'till I make use of the bellows I can never distinguish a customer, I believe that is the gentleman you mean." The servant excitedly responds in a Cockney dialect "Yes, Yes, sure enough that be Master, but before he vanishes again, tell him that Missis has sent the street door key."
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the author's in black ink below image., Future imprint statement for print based on this image inscribed in brown ink: London : Pubd. March 1800 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1559]
Call Number:
Print00922
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in lower margin., From: Francisci Petrarche, des hochweisen fürtrefflichen Poeten und Oratorn, zwei Trostbücher, Von Artznei und Rath beyde im guten und widerwertigen Glück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff, 1559., Image is from Cap. CXI, page XCVII verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confined! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconomy.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see British Museum Satires Nos. 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see British Museum Satires No. 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see British Museum Satires No. 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Whimsical repository. London : Printed for R. Snagg ..., v. 1, no. 1 (August 1794).
Publisher:
Engrav'd for the Whimsical Repository, Septr. 1st, 1774, publsh'd according to act of Parliament
Title and date from item., Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, 22 November 1879., Bradbury & Evans were publishers of Punch at the time, and were located in London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Bradbury & Evans
Subject (Name):
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 and St. Cyres, Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount, 1869-1926
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Alchemy, Politicians, Chemicals, and Bellows
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 47 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, his cheeks inflated, blows at the flames; Fox (right), seated on a bulky roll inscribed 'Petition from the Cotton Manufacture[rs]', plies a pair of bellows. The fuel of the fire consists of papers inscribed 'Rumour', 'Evidence at the Bar' (2), 'Pamphlets', 'Pleadings at ye Bar' (2), 'Arguments'. The flames and smoke which extend above their heads are inscribed 'Distrust', 'To Scotland', 'Discontent', 'To the Chamber of Commerce', 'Objections', 'Jealousy', 'To Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 19.9 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 22 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted with one other print on leaf 29 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
Satire on Hogarth, shown as a devil fanning the fire at the mouth of hell
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two columns of verse below image, beginning with title: The fly machine for Scotland performd if God permit by Briton. Places taken at the sign of the Treasury. --heep coals of fire on his head and the Lord with reward thee ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mouth of Hell --Engraving tool -- Brooms -- Newspapers: The Auditor ; The Briton -- Slang: coal, i.e., money., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 25.8 x 18.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Howard, H. (Henry)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Bellows, Demons, Devil, Hell, and Slang