Full-length portrait of Rigby facing left, his hat held in his extended right hand, his left hand gripping his sword
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 3 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Rigby.
Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probable later issue of no. 6073, without the number 'XX" in upper left of plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Mounted on page 7 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Turner, Charles, approximately 1726-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Probable later issue of no. 6073, without the number 'XX" in upper left of plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Turner, Charles, approximately 1726-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Full length portrait of Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, in profile to the left. He bends forward, holding his hat in an extended right hand, with his left hand in a muff and a walking stick under his left arm
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XX" in upper left corner., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 5 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Sir Charles Turner.
Publisher:
Published 17th June 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Turner, Charles, Sir, 1727?-1783
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Politicians, Public speaking, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Full length full-face portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux on the left and the much shorter Robert Quarme in profile on the right. Both were ushers in the House of Lords
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Publisher worked in London. See Maxted., Publisher's name is omitted from description in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 11 with three other prints.
Full length full-face portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux on the left and the much shorter Robert Quarme in profile on the right. Both were ushers in the House of Lords
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Publisher worked in London. See Maxted., Publisher's name is omitted from description in the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with drypoint and roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 7 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figures in the print are identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their names in letterpress: Sir Francis Molineux and Mr. Quarme.
Full length full-face portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux on the left and the much shorter Robert Quarme in profile on the right. Both were ushers in the House of Lords
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Publisher worked in London. See Maxted., and Publisher's name is omitted from description in the British Museum catalogue.
A campanion piece to print of the same title (Such things are. Telles choses sont) which ridicules women's dress. This plate shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Description:
Title and date from print based on this drawing published by S.W. Fores April 2, 1787., Attributed to Captain Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., and Formerly mounted with an impression of the engraving, based on this drawing: See Lewis Walpole Library 787.04.02.04+.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Men
On a raised platform, the Devil sits on top of 3 casks, one labelled "small beer". He straddles a huge key, from which are suspended, as on a gallows, 2 gentlemen, the one on the right bearing some resemblance to George III. On the left 2 maids or washerwomen wave mop and broom at the hanged man (possibly Pitt?), saying "You tax maid servants no more". On the right Samuel House, standing before his tavern, offers a tankard to Jeffrey Dunstan, who is voicing his support of Charles James Fox. The Devil is uttering the words of the title
Alternative Title:
Key of the back stairs and the small beer etc
Description:
Title derived from text in image. and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797. and House, Samuel, -1785.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Keys (Hardware), Taverns (Inns), Women domestics, Hangings, and Clothing & dress