A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
An elderly townsman leans over a table complacently counting gold coins, holding up a finger to enjoin silence on a countryman who appeals to him with an expression of despair. The latter's elderly wife, equally distressed, stands behind him on the left, a hand on her husband's shoulder
Alternative Title:
Pleasure
Description:
Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '22' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant issue, with plate number, of no. 11670 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
"A middle-aged man holding a candle and a cudgel reveals a young couple embracing in a curtained bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jealousy
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Artist and printmaker from similar prints in the same series., Four lines of text below image: Mons. Le Brun, in his delineation of the passions, makes a man jealous without assigning a cause why or wherefore. If the connoisseur will give himself the trouble to look behind the curtain in the above sketch, he will find sufficient reason for the excitement of the passion., "No. 19.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., plate number erased from sheet., and 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.1 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
A young man in riding clothes half sits on a trunk of a tree in a park while a stylishly-dressed, young woman stands to his right, tying a ribbon in his hat
Alternative Title:
Henry and Emma
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Numbered '200' in lower right corner of plate.
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. The chandelier and long case clocks are decorated with holly and mistletoe hangs from the ceiling. One man kisses a large, buxom woman who recoils in surprise. Another couple flirt on the right at a table opposite a man who has passed out, playing cards strewn on the floor at his feet. The back wall is dominated by a large cupboard filled with dishes and platters
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Blind man's buff., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
A print with two large woodcut portraits and letterpress captions below. On the left King George II and on the right Caroline of Ansbach, each depicted full-length in a large octagonal foliate frame
Description:
Titles from letterpress text below images., Date of publication based on subject., and "[Numb."--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737,
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on: Map of Lurgane in the part of Ballysumacha[?] situate in the county of Sligo. The estate of R. B. Neynoe Esq. / Dublin: Hodges & Smith.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Domestic life, Marriage, Quarreling, and Spouses
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Anne Foley and the Earl of Peterborough
Alternative Title:
Incautious Lothario and Honorable Mrs. Foley
Description:
Title engraved below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1785, page 177., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Peterborough, Charles Henry Mordaunt, Earl of, 1758-1814,
