An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk at the husband's elbow is a book with a spine label "L'École des vieillards" and at his feet he has thrown his quill pen and the account book with the label "Dépense".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Series title and number from caption above image., Printmaker's name letterd in image on the base of the harp., This plate was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 12 June 1824. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 2003,0630.14., and "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.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Desks, Harps, Interiors, Parlors, and Writing materials
A man and woman in their pajamas and slippers stand looking in fright at the closed door of their bedroom. He wears a night cap and stands with a weapon in each hand, pointed at the door; his figure casts a large shadow on the back wall and over the bureau on which sits his tricorne hat. His wife (right) clings to his nightshirt, as she holds up a candlestick to light their way. She has her hair tied up in a scarf. To the right, their infant cries in its basket under which sits a overflowing chamber pot. On the other side of the closed door is a small mouse
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number from caption above image., Printmaker's name etched in image, on left baseboard., Plate 14 in this series is dated 1817 in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet dimensions from British Museum catalogue., "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 Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 21.2 x 29 cm.
A young foppish man leans towards an older woman, with hands clasped and eyes rolling. Text below: Leave you dear girl!! never, never, (while you have a shilling)
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by L.M. Lefevre
A soldier with a sword in his right hand has his left hand under the chin of a young lady who holds his gun in her left arm. Another soldier grins from behind a chair on which sits a drum. A monkey sits on a music book on a stool
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '145' in lower right corner., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Robert Sayer, Chart, Map, & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, and Pets
Two grotesques caricatures shown in profile, a man on left and woman on right, laughing and smiling at one another
Description:
Title from item. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Two grotesques caricatures shown in profile, a man on left and woman on right, laughing and smiling at one another
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from volume., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., and Restrike of no. 6696 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge
Subject (Name):
Coutts, Thomas, 1735-1822 and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
"A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the right, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray., Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia', 1767, adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular. It was the subject of a picture by Reynolds., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the left, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise. In the background (left) is a gate. David Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (1767), adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
Description:
Title etched below image., Copy in reverse of James Gillray's print of the same name. Cf. No. 8908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 8 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.