After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe and "Seven figures walk from left to right. First is the (so-called) Duchess of Kingston, short and stout. She is saying "By God and", and holds out her hands with a gesture of affirmation. Behind her walk three young women, her 'maids of honour', who are tall and slim in contrast with their mistress. One carries a large square bottle inscribed "cordial". All four ladies are dressed alike in the fashion of the day with low bodices and high coiffures decorated with feathers and flowers. Next comes a fat clergyman, his mouth open as of shouting. He is followed by the physician wearing a big-wig and sword. Last walks the apothecary, lean and bent, also wearing a sword, and carrying an enormous and ornately decorated syringe which rests on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She was tried and convicted for bigamy in 1776, the surgeon Caesar Hawkins having testified to the birth of her son by Hervey. She left England immediately and lived thereafter in Paris, St Petersburg and Rome., Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with text added below image. For an earlier state lacking this text, see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32146., Date of publication based on date of newspaper citation below image., Text below image: Then the Duchess was brought into court attended by her chaplain, physician, apothecary, & three maids of honor. Morning post, May 16, 1776., "Price 1 sh."--Lower right, below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Syringe -- Apothecary -- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Clyster., and Tipped in after page 16 in an extra-illustrated copy of: The trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers ... London : Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
"Mansel, Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity (from 1798), walks from left to right, and slightly towards the spectator, head in profile, and thrown back, his mortar-board in his left hand. His voluminous, inflated, and much convoluted gown covers a bulky figure. He wears a clerical wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker tentatively identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Leaf 52 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1810, by Dighton, 6 Charg. Cross
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Mansel, William Lort, 1753-1820
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, College administrators, and Obesity
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his hand is an open volume with text "A sermon, I am sick of love." She is dressed in a wrap and cap and, while smiling at the clergyman, surreptitiously takes a letter from a black servant boy who approaches from behind her chair. A parrot in a cage hanging above them sings, "Caesar and Pompey were both of them horned." A squirrel sits on a stool next to the table. In the foreground, a monkey sits on the floor, reading "A dissertation on winding up the clock, by Tristam Shandy." On the extreme left, a footman with a long unbraided queue is trying to push out of the room a bill collector who came in to present a tailor's bill
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: With touch indelicate His Grace, approaches that angelic place ..., Companion print to: High life in the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 34.2 cm, folded to 22.5 x 24.8 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 61 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: two figures on the left side of the plate, the right half being empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peasant in sabots walking with priest and Peasant and monk
Description:
Title devised by curator., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Proof state?, Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Priests., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.5 x 16.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Plomer., Numbered '348' in lower left corner., and Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original print was published by Carington Bowles in 1760 and 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"An elderly parson embraces indecorously an elderly woman who stands beside the bed where her husband sleeps. A dog watches them. The scene is a poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of a later state of the print. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Furniture: chairs -- Pets., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Marriage & married life., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield.
Publisher:
Published Novemr. 25th, 1785, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; imprint from Beinecke Library impression., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. For later version etched by Rowlandson, see no. 9681, v. 7., and Temporary local subjects: Gout -- Food -- Suckling pig -- Pluralists.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Tithes, Church of England, Gout, Clergy, and Swine
A jolly fat parson,with an egg basket over his right arm and chicken, pigs, and geese bursting from his pockets and the tops of his boot, rides a horse to the right towards a sign that reads "120 Miles to London." On the extreme left a pig walks from a thatched cottage, following the parson who has apparently taken one of her young
Alternative Title:
Country parsons return from tithing
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd & sold by W. Humphrey, No. 3 Lancaster Street
Sketches of the heads and shoulders of clerics. The five at the top, labelled 'London Clergy' are in clerical clothes and full of white wigs. Some of the heads are shown sideways, some full face. Below are five heads labelled 'Country Clergy', not in strictly clerical garb. One man has a hat on and a turban under it. Another wears a turban, still another has long natural hair
Alternative Title:
Country clergy
Description:
Title from text within image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs -- Clerical garb -- Turban., and Watermark centered on lower edge: T French.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly