Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 150 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:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 34 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
Title from text positioned above and below image area., Print is divided into two horizontal panels, each titled separately., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
On the right, a clergyman and the farmer's wife sit side-by-side on a high-backed settee in her parlor; he holds in his hand a copy of Ovid's Art of love as he smiles adoringly at her. She has a large nose and her hair has been dressed to an absurd height. On the table in front of them are two other books: Acting and Art of dressing. To the left, the farmer enters through the front door, his dog at his heels, and exclaims in surprise: "Blessing on us! Can that be my dame?" Behind him is his coachman in a smock and carrying a whip; he smiles and says "Woundz Maester her head is grown as high as our barley-mew!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 September 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Every man's magazine or, The monthly repository of science, instruction and amusement. London : [publisher not identified], 1772, v. 2, page 41., and Mounted to 14 x 21 cm.
"A man wearing a hat, long coat, and top-boots, stands directed to the left, head in profile, holding a long-lashed coach whip; over his left arm hangs a bulky multiple-collared coat, in his hand is a 'Way Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue and "He is Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart who matriculated as a Commoner 1790 at University College, aged eighteen, but never graduated. He ran a four-horse coach between Oxford and London, had to give up the road owing to accidents, and in 1815 was made Esquire Bedel in Law. He died 1838."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Classical alma mater coachman Oxford
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 32 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.2 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Bobart" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A man wearing a hat, long coat, and top-boots, stands directed to the left, head in profile, holding a long-lashed coach whip; over his left arm hangs a bulky multiple-collared coat, in his hand is a 'Way Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue and "He is Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart who matriculated as a Commoner 1790 at University College, aged eighteen, but never graduated. He ran a four-horse coach between Oxford and London, had to give up the road owing to accidents, and in 1815 was made Esquire Bedel in Law. He died 1838."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
A view of an elegant carriage showing details of the underside of the wheels; the body and coach box are shown upright
Description:
Title from text above image., Publication date based on presentation inscription from John Hatchett to the Royal Society, 13th May 1789., Dedication below image: "To the most noble the Marquis of Landsdown, this plate of his Lordship's carriage is most humbly inscribed. By his Lordship's most obedient servant the inventor and patentee, John Hatchett, Long Acre London.", One of a series of two plates., Elaborate watercolor & body color, heightened with silver and partly finished with shellac or gum arabic., and With a wash drawing of a coachman, reins in hand, added behind the front wheels.
A red-nosed coach driver shown three-quarters, wearing a hat, coat, and gloves, facing forward with a whip in his right hand and reins in his left. He is scowling
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Text below title: He will bear you easily, and reins well. Twelfth night.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.07.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Secret influence
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: O mistress fair! I'd be a rose ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Uniforms: coachman's uniform.
