Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent for evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
"Scene in a neat parlour or music room, with open square piano and lyre-back chairs. A middle-aged termagant, coquettishly dressed, has overturned her chair and stands with raised fist, shrieking at a very young man in riding-dress. He sits (left) with hat and riding-switch beside him, bewildered and passive; his dog takes cover under his chair, looking sideways at an aggressive cat which arches its back against its mistress. A cockatoo screams from its perch. On the piano, which is inscribed Row Maker, is an open music-book: Blow High. Blow Low; on the floor is a book open at Wake to Ecstacy the living Lyre. Behind the woman's head is a convex wall-mirror, topped by a carved eagle which looks fiercely down. This is flanked by two sea-scapes: Calm (left), ships becalmed, and Storm (right), a ship struck by lightning and about to be submerged in towering waves."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Pictures in image amplify subject of the print., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A couple of Irishmen look in horror at a white cat in a church graveyard."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 16., and Undescribed in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
"An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Parlors, Tea, and Tea tables (Tables)
An angry wife (left) with her hair tied up in a kerchief throws the contents of a chamber pot in her husbands face as she hammers him on the head with a small pick. The rotund husband with breeches untied winces in pain; in his left hand is a large stick. The cat clinges to his leg in terror. On the wall hangs a picture of "Patient Grin[?]".
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Woodward. Cf. Labourers in the vineyard!! / Woodward del., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A group of four musicians in a semi-circle play their instruments -- a viola, violin, harpsichord, and cello. Most of the musicians are seated in chairs, but the violist stands with one leg raised. A dog and cat (who plays amongst some fallen sheet music) are in the foreground left and right, respectively
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 21, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Musical instruments, Music ensembles, and Musicians
"Satire on village life. A country fair in which three young women are running for the prize of a smock; the third in line has tripped over a dog and is being helped up by a man. In the foreground, left to right: a young couple embrace beneath two trees hung with drapery; a small girl fills a mug of beer from a cask on which leans the village constable, asleep, with an empty mug in his lap; a small girl beside him holds a book lettered, "Compleat Peace Off[ice]r."; a dog steals food from a plate discarded on the ground; an old man stands on tip-toe holding his eye-glass to read a notice lettered, "To be Run for by Men in Sacks, A Flitch of Bacon on Tuesday next" which is pinned to one of the trees; a sailor sits on a branch of the tree holding up the hem of the prize smock which hangs on a pole at either end of which is a three-cornered hat; another sailor lounges on the ground looking at the runing women, a large jug near his foot; a chimney boy grabs a gingerbread crown from a boy who is holding a donkey by a chain; a small girl holds a younger child who waves another gingerbread crown while a dog jumps up to reach it. Behind the area roped off for the race is a crowd of spectators and a farm cart which a woman climbs into with the help of two men and another woman already in the cart; a man with a cockade in his hat waves a small flag on a pole, perhaps indicating the start of the race; a larger flag with a cross flies behind; other villagers are gathered in and around a makeshift tent; a one-horse carriage driven by a woman and carrying a gentleman comes into the scene from the right; behind the carriage two men are fencing. Women watch from upper windows of a large house in the background; on its walls are two bird-bottles and a dove-cote which a cat is eyeing with interest from a window sill; beyond is a windmill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Country fairs -- Buildings -- Prizes: Holland smock -- Tricorne hats -- Constables -- Barrels with spiggots -- Beer -- Food: gingerbread -- Vehicles -- Chaise -- Animals -- Trades -- Donkey-driver -- Dishes: tankards -- Dove-cot -- Placards: race notice -- Customs: allusion to the "Flitch of bacon" -- Quizzing glasses -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Verse - "Here I must tell the praise of worthy Whit-"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In this edition, the text is in four columns, with the title above the first two columns. There are four woodcuts. The first and second woodcuts are above their respective columns. The third woodcut is located in the middle of the third column. The fourth woodcut is located near the top of the fourth column., Mounted on leaf 65. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
