Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
Profile portrait depicting the young traveller Henry Bunbury wearing an academic gown and mortar board. This drawing was used as the basis for Thomas Patch’s conversation piece of the interior of his Florentine studio painted in 1770 and now in the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bunbury, 1769
Description:
Title and date inscribed by the artist (?) in lower right., Unsigned; attributed to Thomas Patch., Inscribed below the title in a different hand: Drawn by Gezze at Florence., and From the same sheet as another drawing of "Valentino, Servitore di Piazza, 1769", now separated.
A three-quarter length portrait of Tim Bobbin, pseud. of John Collier, caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Tim Bobbin, Esquire
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Portrait of the artist, published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
An large angry man holds up an image of himself entitled 'A great beast' and shakes his large stick at a small cowering man with a sharp chin and long nose, who kneels and clasps his hands emploringly. He says, "You Rascal! dare to say this is not like me, and I'll make you eat it." Behind the artist is a table loaded with sheets of drawings
Description:
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Etched below the title 10 lines of verse in three columns: "He, that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolish, although he smart, Not to seem senceless of the bob. ...", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: W Elgar 1797.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1802 by S. Howitt, No. 6 Panton Street
