A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Opposite page 108. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A man wearing his hat and holding his walking stick is seated in a chair before a fireplace enjoying the embrace of a lady seated to his right and with a high coiffure and feathered hat. A younger man with a tall egg-shaped toupée is being ushered out the door by another woman, perhaps a servant
Description:
Title from item., Monogram in lower left corner of image., Date of publication inferred from costume., Trimmed within plate mark; small hole in upper plate and folding and repairs to lower edge., and Bound in opposite page 108 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 (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Wigs
"A woman (whole length) walking to the left full face. Her hair is dressed high with tight curls at the side. She wears a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well-known house of ill-fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act, Feby. 9th, 1772, by MDarly, Strand
publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?]
Call Number:
778.01.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four elegantly dressed young ladies are shown outside a brick or stone house with trees in the background. In the foreground a woman in a large hat is about to roll the ball at ninepins. Behind her two woman look on, one holding a bowl. To the right before a table with bottle and glass, another young lady drinks from a large tankard. On the far right a young girl sets up the pins
Description:
Title from item., Date based on that of the probable companion print Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger. See no. 4555 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Numbered in plate at lower left: 290.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Ch:Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Ninepins, Women, Recreation, Sports for women, Bowlers, Clothing & dress, Hats, and Drinking vessels
publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?]
Call Number:
778.01.01.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, Miss Wicket leans on her cricket-bat turning towards Miss Trigger who advances with her dogs, holding aloft a pheasant and two partidges, as she tramples a paper marked "Effeminacy". Miss Wicket wears a chip hat and jacket with waistcoat, her sporting petticoat short enough to reveal her ankles. Miss Trigger wears a large hat of the bergère style, a long coat with buttoned sleeves and boots. Behind the pair a young girl catches a ball
Description:
Title from item., Verse follows title: Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot. And forty-five notches Miss Wicket's just got., Date from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in plate at lower left: 276., Reduced version of no. 4555 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date erased from this impression?
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Women, Recreation, Sports for women, Gender identity, Cricket players, Hunting dogs, Game bird hunting, and Clothing & dress
"Satire on a struggling writer: (No.8) an ill-dressed man standing, in profile to left, with an old-fashioned wig and old-fashioned coat, purchased second-hand from "J Twigg of Monmouth Street" whose label is still attached to a button; he carries a volume with a dedication to "My Lord S -"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act, Feby. 3d, 1772, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 67. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A hackwriter, in profile to left, with an ill-fitting wig and old-fashioned coat, purchased second-hand from "T Twigg of Monmouth Street" whose label is still attached to a button; he carries a volume with a dedication to "My Lord S-[?Sandwich]"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Grub Street -- Old-fashioned clothing -- Old-fashioned bag wig., and First of three plates on leaf 67.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act, Feby. 3d, 1772, by MDarly, Strand
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
