"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair ...
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and l...
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and l...
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"The piazza of Covent Garden, with the hustings, showing a line of hill in the distance inscribed 'View of Richmond Hill'. In the air, flying towards the hustings, is Mrs. Hobart encased from the waist downwards in a circular balloon to which is attac...
Alternative Title:
Aerostatic dilly
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2022 42: Sheet trimmed to 34.7 x 24.4 cm. Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1784, by H. Humphreys, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
"The piazza of Covent Garden, with the hustings, showing a line of hill in the distance inscribed 'View of Richmond Hill'. In the air, flying towards the hustings, is Mrs. Hobart encased from the waist downwards in a circular balloon to which is attac...
Alternative Title:
Aerostatic dilly
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2022 42: Sheet trimmed to 34.7 x 24.4 cm. Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1784, by H. Humphreys, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
"A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in ...
Alternative Title:
Friendly party in high life Knave wins all
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 31st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
"A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in ...
Alternative Title:
Friendly party in high life Knave wins all
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 31st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
"Lady Buckinghamshire, enormously fat, is seated in profile to the right in an open chariot which sinks through a rectangular aperture in front of the Weigh-House, its weight being too great for the apparatus for weighing wagons. She throws up her arm...
Alternative Title:
Overweight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro Sinking fund Downfall of faro
"Notorious rakes and gamblers ride or run furiously towards rays descending from a sun in the upper left corner of the design inscribed 'Chance'; its centre, a segment of which is visible, is composed of the letters on an 'E.O.' (roulette) table (cf. ...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Crouch, Anna Maria, 1763-1805
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Social life and customs, Horses, and Playing cards
