A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: proceeding to a round game". In the second row: "In love I pereceive [sic]", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of all women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
Alternative Title:
Milk Street in an uproar
Description:
Title from text in upper left., Similar prints, also published by G. Blackman in 1817, are attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 30, 1817, by G. Blackman Junr., 362 Oxford Strt
Page 76. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young man and woman stand on a patterned rug, his arms around her waist. The young woman's hat obscures her eyes
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1770 -- Female costume, 1770., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 76 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?].
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1751 and 1774]
Call Number:
751.00.00.49+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
With one arm encircling her waist, a man holds the hand of a young woman outside a fashionable residence, unaware that another gentleman kisses the woman's other hand behind his back. Above the doorway of the residence is etched he name "Notaris” and “Slik-op Notaris” on the left door frame. In the background a third gentleman smiles and points to the grouping in the foreground. In the distance at the back of the residence a maid stands in an archway; beyound her a view of the town
Alternative Title:
Guardian coax'd and Guardian coaxed
Description:
Title etched below image, between verses., Numbered '134' in upper right corner above image., Publication date from: Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Image from a scene in Molière's L'École des maris, 1661; translated by IJsbrand Vincent as De listige vrijster of de verschalkte voogd, 1690: Troost, Possibly after a painting by Jan Josef Horemans (1714-1792)., Four stanzas of verse in two columns on either side of title: Chloe 'tis true with charming leer, you coax your am'rous guardian here ... and bless thy youthful lover., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, print & map seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
George as a farmer and Charlotte dressed simply as a farmer's wife sit outside a cottage (left) smiling as they point to a pair of large foxes hanging from a gallows in the middle of their farmyard. A rooster and geese stand looking up at the fox; in the foreground sheep and rams observe the scene before them, some with looks of alarm
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 46., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dwellings, Foxes, Farmyards, Geese, Gallows, and Sheep
"A drawing room with a young woman seated at a piano at right, gazing seriously into the eyes of her tutor, who has his arm around the back of her chair; an older couple seated at the fireplace at left, the man dozing with his dog at his feet, the grotesque old woman, startled, just noticing the lovers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fortepianos -- Fireplace screens -- Music sheets -- Allusion to adultery -- Windows., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818., and Number "5" in publication year changed to a "6" in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Illustration to The Diabo-lady, probably by William Combe. Simon Luttrell Lord Irnham, shown with a tail and cloven hooves as successor to the Devil, leads his newly selected wife to their thrones on the left. Behind her are 5 unsuccessful contenders for this position, 3 holding papers which identify them as Mrs. Rudd, Lady Ligonier, and the Duchess of Kingston. Demons and imps fly overhead, one bearing crowns for the happy couple
Alternative Title:
Diabolady
Description:
Title from item., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. April 1777., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46, p. 208., Companion print to: The Diaboliad. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 5424., and Quotation from Milton in plate below image beginning "O Fairest of creation, last and best of all Gods works ..."
Publisher:
pulblisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787., Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5., Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788., and Ligonier, Penelope (Pitt) Ligonier, Countess, fl. 1766-1784.
"A very fat man with arms outstretched tries to kiss an equally large woman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., No. 123 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: armchairs -- Glass: liquer bottles -- Wallpaper.
Publisher:
Published 20th Augt. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"First panel: a couple asking to be married to a constable; second panel: big bishop representing the Church vomiting and bleeded by two politicians."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Constable in lieu of a parson
Description:
Titles from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower right corner of first panel of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "81" in brown ink in top center portion of first panel of design., and No. 81.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Couples, Bishops, Vomiting, and Phlebotomy
Title from item., Below title: There are many beautiful women in the life of a handsome young doctor. This is the strange love story of one of them!, Places of publication and copyright derived from location of corporate headquarters., Text in lower margin: Copyright 1949 Loew's Incorporated ; Country of Origin U.S.A. ; 5468 ; Property of National Screen Service Corp. Licensed for display only in connection with the exhibition of this picture at your theatre. Must be returned immediately thereafter. ; 49/493 ; Litho-Poster Corporation of America., Poster text: What these men know about life... Women discover about love... Sets them apart from all others!, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture, Litho-Poster Corporation of America, and Copyright 1949 Loew's Incorporated
