Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to right, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed with loss of companion prints: Le baptême domestique and Convoi funèbre des Anglois., A reverse copy after J.V. Schley's print made for: Picart, B. Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Amsterdam : Chez J. F. Bernard, 1723, between pages 90 and 91?, After William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See reference to Schely print in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Courtrooms, Couples, Judges, Law & legal affairs, Pregnancy, and Pregnant women
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Slade 1818.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Musée Grotesque. No.31., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"A domestic interior. In the upper margin is engraved, "Give me the sweet delight of Love - a Catch", and the design illustrates the lines of the catch: "A smoky house, a failing trade, Six squalling brats, and a scolding jade." A man (full-face) stands disconsolately, his hands clasped while his virago of a wife (left) threatens him with her fist. One small child pulls his coat and points to a little brother kicking on the floor, while a rather older girl weeps with her pinafore to her eyes, and another boy blows a trumpet. This group is on the right. On the left one child clutches another by the hair. The man's toes protrude through one of his shoes, he is without breeches, and these hang from a nail on the wall (right) next his wife's hat. A parroquet sits screeching on the outside of its cage. The plaster has fallen from the wall in patches, showing bricks. A smoky fire burns in the grate (left); on the chimney-piece are tea-things."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Plaisir du mènage, Plaisirs du mènage, and Give me the sweet delight of love : a catch
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1781, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Families, Children, Domestic life, Couples, and Clothing & dress
A handsome young man embrasses a pretty young woman wearing a fashionable hat as the stand in a grove of trees; he leans toward her, their checks touching. To the right, another pretty young woman peaks out from behind a tree and watches the pair with a distressed look on her face
Alternative Title:
Love and learning and Oxford scholar
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below title and above imprint statement, six lines of verse in two columns: Beauty invites and love & learning plead; The Oxford scholar surely must succeed, Yet Oh, ye blooming soft inclining fair, Of his too fatal eloquence beware; For see a slighted fair one is behind with jealous eye & most distracted mind.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1786, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Envy, Kissing, Students, and Young adults
A young man lounges against a young woman, as they sit on a sofa; she holds his right hand in hers. With the left hand he pours wine into her glass which she holds with her left as they exchange amorous looks. They are both partially disrobed. On the table in front of them is a bunch of grapes and an apple, an upturned glass, and playing cards
Alternative Title:
Love and wine
Description:
Numbered '112' in lower right corner of plate., Below the title, four lines of verse in two columns: Heighten'd by Bacchus see the amourous flair ..., Cf. British Museum Catalogue, v. 4, no. 4524 by Spooner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published June 12th, 1787 by Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Couples, Playing cards, Seduction, Wine, and Eating & drinking
A hideous, ragged woman looks amorously at her male companion, a burly dustman, as they sift through cinders; two others kneel at their feet, one also using a sieve to sift through the cinders while her companion drinks gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse; flying overhead a flock of carrion crows
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego., "Price one shilling coloured.", For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6., For a later reissue of the plate, see no. 7444 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Watermark: GT 1803.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of cinder-sifters at work on one of the vast laystalls which disgraced the surroundings of London in the 18th century (notably off Tottenham Court Road). A woman of the lowest type, ragged, naked to the waist, holds her sieve, turning her head to her male counterpart, a burly dustman, who helps her by shovelling cinders into her sieve. They grin amorously at each other. She is hideous, stout, and muscular. Two other cinder-sifters kneel on the ground, both are aged crones; one bends over her sieve, the other drinks a glass of gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse. Behind (left) is the dustman's cart. In the sky a flight of birds (left) are suggestive of carrion crows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego., Probably a later reissue of the plate, with Tegg's imprint statement and the year "1810" under Rowlandson's signature burnished out., Publication information based on earlier reissue with the imprint "Pub'd June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside." Cf. No. 7444A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, page 969., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., "Price one shilling coloured.", For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 189., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 91 in volume 1.
"To right, a soldier and a young woman embracing each other; to extreme right, a woman seated, facing back; to left, a soldier on a horse, in profile to left, holding another horse's bridle; in a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version of the same design
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to verses that are perhaps part of a longer ballad, the author of which is unidentified., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Volume 2, page 27. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"To right, a soldier and a young woman embracing each other; to extreme right, a woman seated, facing back; to left, a soldier on a horse, in profile to left, holding another horse's bridle; in a landscape; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below title: Hark! may heaven defend thee, Hark! the drum commands, Honour I attend thee, Love I kiss thy hands. May guardian angels watch thee, And conquest on thee wait; One kiss and then I give thee up, alas poor Kate. Vide the Tobacco Box., Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Right Honble. the Countess of Euston, this print from an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by Her Ladyships obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., The included verses are perhaps part of a longer ballad, the author of which is unidentified., and Mounted on page 27 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23d, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
