"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience is behind him, on each side of a fireplace, for the most part asleep. A broken candle on the chimney-piece drops wax into the mouth of a sleeping man (right), to the amusement of his neighbour. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10.56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'. Beneath the design: 'Gemtnen At a General Meeting, you impowered me whenever the situation of public affairs ran down & the main spring of good order broke, then Gemmen as I before said you rmpowerd me to call you together; now is your time, & a moment lost belike may never be Regaind, unless you exert yourselves to unhing [sic] that bold Monster Sedition who Stalks abroad in broad day light Gemmen to destroy our glorious Constitution & throw the balance of power from its place & canker our principles with the rust of democracy, Gemmen its unknown the villany thats abroad there are wheels within wheels that regulate the encreasing tide of traitorous measures in this here big Town therefore in order to check this growing evil I have called you together, that we may know how and about it.'
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Eleven lines of text below image and above title: Gemmen, at the general meeting you impowered [sic] me ..., and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
"An ugly man in old-fashioned dress stands full-face, toes turned in, squinting, and looking downwards. An 'Address' is in his right hand, his left hand is in his breeches pocket; a document inscribed 'obervation' [sic] protrudes from his coat-pocket. His scanty audience is behind him, on each side of a fireplace, for the most part asleep. A broken candle on the chimney-piece drops wax into the mouth of a sleeping man (right), to the amusement of his neighbour. Over the chimney-piece is a large clock-face, the hands indicating 10.56; above it is a carved owl and the words 'About your business'. Beneath the design: 'Gemtnen At a General Meeting, you impowered me whenever the situation of public affairs ran down & the main spring of good order broke, then Gemmen as I before said you rmpowerd me to call you together; now is your time, & a moment lost belike may never be Regaind, unless you exert yourselves to unhing [sic] that bold Monster Sedition who Stalks abroad in broad day light Gemmen to destroy our glorious Constitution & throw the balance of power from its place & canker our principles with the rust of democracy, Gemmen its unknown the villany thats abroad there are wheels within wheels that regulate the encreasing tide of traitorous measures in this here big Town therefore in order to check this growing evil I have called you together, that we may know how and about it.'
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Eleven lines of text below image and above title: Gemmen, at the general meeting you impowered [sic] me ..., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of speech, Petition, Right of, Sedition, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clocks & watches, City council members, Hearing aids, Sleeping, Public speaking, and Yawning
On the recto, a drawing showing a Gothic steeple with a clock on a section of tile roof. On the verso, a small pencil sketch of a detail of a clock?
Alternative Title:
Design for Nich. Hardinge Esq. by R. Bentley 1753
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note in ink on mount below drawing. and Formerly mounted on leaf 40 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760].
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone looking at the watch in her hand, disappointment written over her face
Description:
Reissue by Fores, "London Pubd July 1792" scored through., Four lines of verse below title: With trembling step and downcast eyes, Hopeless to meet her facour'd Swain; Eliza breathes the troubled sigh, WEith words that inward griefs explain., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Sadness, Women, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Publisher derived from logo on poster: TMC., Original health poster., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Thatcher Manufacturing Company
Subject (Topic):
Milk, Milk in human nutrition, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Roosters, Clocks & watches, and Moon
A thin man in a cap pulled down on his head feeds a morsel of food to an obese woman who combs a wig in her hand as they sit on a sofa before a table laid with lunch. They are in a well-appointed sitting room decorated with a mirror above a fireplace with a mantel on which sits a clock, a sheet of music entitled 'Romance', and under a glass vitrine, a statuette of man holding a bird on his finger. The fire screen is decorated with an image of two love birds. On the left edge is only a portion of painting, but it shows a bird perched on the finger of the sitter's hand. The man's discarded hat and walking stick rest of a sofa to the left
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed by the printmaker on a slip of paper tucked into the left edge of the mirror., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on blue laid paper to: 36 x 30 cm.
Title derived from pencil notation in lower left margin., Signed "Grant Wood" in pencil lower right margin., Date supplied by curator., Place of creation based on artist's place of residence., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Associated American Artists and George C. Miller
Subject (Topic):
Family medicine, Physicians (General practice), Thermometers, Medical equipment & supplies, Hands, and Clocks & watches
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Buck's with Truncheon's swagger and knock down ..., Plate numbered '150' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Foot-pads -- Watches: pocket watch -- Highway robbery -- Milestones -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: Strasburg bend (partial) with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Published 4th May 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A satire on marriage; An old man seated with one leg bandaged and raised on chair in front of him, being attended to by a maid; behind him his young wife is locked in an embrace with her younger lover."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from a 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., and Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Cantharides -- Curtains -- Birds -- Furniture: upholstered armchair -- Cuckolds.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Adultery, Women domestics, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Crutches, Clocks & watches, Draperies, Birdcages, Parrots, Chairs, and Bells
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
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: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 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 60 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 (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
