Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside., Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by the same publisher, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, October 23d, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners., and Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee.
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
The third in a series of scenes: A monkey dressed as a fine gentleman kneels before a well-dressed female monkey who looks away demurely behind her fan. The scene takes place in a formal garden
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Courtship, Gardens, and Marriage proposals
"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
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs., Mounted on page 49 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs.
Verse - "At Mitcham town did dwell"., In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments; the imprint is below the last two columns., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 43. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Unrequited love, Man-woman relationships, Clothing and dress, social aspects, Courtship, Lifestyle, and Wealth
Date from ESTC., Verse begins: "Let all loyal lovers, which round me do stand,", In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the sequence of woodcuts is: a ship near a castle and a couple in the country; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 45. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Sex roles, Disguise, Man-woman relationships, Courtship, Lifestyle, Impressment, Cruelty, Love, Sailing ships, Castles & palaces, and Country life
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 16 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
