Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
A satire, divided into quarters, with four small scenes of different episodes of persons trying to collect their Christmas boxes. In the first square in the upper left, a plump supplicant in an apron holds out his hat to a scowling-faced man with a kerchief tied over his hat and a walking stick under his arm as they meet in a road outside a building with a lamp. Behind him on the wall is a sign posted "Miser'. In response to the request, the miser says "Give you a Christmass box. Curse you don't I pay you for your meat." On the top row, right, a thin man (a grave digger?) with a pipe in his mouth, bows to an obese clergyman, with a fat dog at his heel, as they stand in the graveyard of a church. The gravedigger asks, "Most worthy Parson give me a Christmass box." The Parson replies, "Give you a halter you rascal. What should I give you a Christmass box for." In the lower left, clergyman shakes his walking stick at a surprised man who is carrying a large box on his back and secured with a strap over his forehead. The clergyman says to the laborer, "If you ever ask me for a Christmass box again, I'll physic you to death." They are standing in front of building with a lantern and sign that reads "Gargle Apothycary." The fourth square, lower right, shows old, hag-faced woman with a hat and muff standing in a parlor as she slaps the face of an astonished footman. She tells him, "Take that you saucy rascal for a Xmass box!" He replies, "What's that for. I did not want a box on the ear, not I."
Alternative Title:
Christmas boxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Wm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Christmas, Social life and customs, Begging (Pleading), Cemeteries, Clergy, Dogs, Milestones, Muffs, and Obesity
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 31 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man places a coin in the hat of an old, one-eyed beggar who leans on a crutch
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson's etching based this drawing., Drawing numbered in black ink in the upper corner: 14., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Misers, Charity, Poor persons, Hats, and Crutches
Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates., For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804., The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue., "Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink., and Mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep (right) while a man, Irish in appearance, gazes insinuatingly into her face as he fills her bowl with brick-dust from a jar. He has an ass which stands patiently, a double sack pannier-wise across his back and a second jar or measure standing on the sack. The profile of a shrewish old woman looks through the door at the couple, who are intent on each other. A dog barks at the girl. Behind is a street, the nearer houses tall the farther ones lower and gabled. At the doorway opposite a woman appears to be giving food to a poor woman and child. A man and woman lean from the attic windows of adjacent houses to converse. A little chimney-sweep emerges from a chimney, waving his brush."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 32.2 x 25.6 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bricklayers, Charity, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Dogs, Donkeys, Street vendors, and Women domestics
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from language of title., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Good Samaritan (Parable)., Medicine in the Bible, Charity, Transport of sick and wounded, Wounds and injuries, Sick persons, Horses, Spectators, and Chickens
"Chapel interior with George III and Charlotte watching from royal box as poor figures lined up to receive charity, the men at left and women at right, members of the congregation surrounding in pews at right and chior at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818.
As described in the Gospel of St. Luke Chapter X, verse 30, a Samaritan is shown ministering to a traveler who had been beaten, robbed, and left half dead along the road. A priest and a Levite who ignored the injured man are shown on the left in the background. On the right, the Samaritan's white horse is tethered to a branch near a stream; a waterfall flows from high cliffs also on the right. A second scene depicted on lower plate with caption: The Foundation Stone of this Hospital was laid by Rahere prior of the order of St. Augustin, in the II year of the reign of Henry 1st MCII in pursuance of a vow made to St. Bartholomew
Description:
Title and secondary, smaller image engraved on second plate below image of the Gospel scene., "Vol. II, No. 56"--Lower left., "Size of picture 13f, 8i by 16f, 9I, in length"--Lower left, below volume numbering., and "St. Luke Chap. X, ver. 30."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside London
Subject (Name):
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Biblical events, Charity, Horses, Parables, Priests, Robberies, and Waterfalls
