A couple, caricatured and shown full-length, stand with the feet intertwined as the man clasps the woman under her arms. He has long legs and arms and a jutting chin; she, somewhat older than the man, is sharp-featured and appears to be falling
Description:
William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Title etched below image., Printmaker's name illegible in lower right corner of design: Possibly Stack or Stock., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Description based on imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly trimmed from sheet., Probably a copy of a print by Richard Newton that was published by William Holland on 8 May 1797. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.334., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
An obese man and a tall lean woman, symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption', flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background and "A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dropsy -- Consumption.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No 111 Cheapside
Plate [71] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for Chapter XXII; Edward IV standing, holding a bow in one hand, taking Lady Gray's hand in the other as she kneels to left, holding a child on her lap, with a boy holding two greyhounds behind to right; a descriptive plaque below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Edward the Fourth declaring his attachment to Lady Elizabeth Gray
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [71] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Subject (Name):
Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483, and Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492,
"Heading to engraved verses ... Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends: 'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind With his Toe Turn Ti.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Finger post
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '440' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in two numbered columns in lower portion of plate: Yea! I fell in the pit of love, Ti Tum Ti ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 30, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
An old man and a young woman sit at a table. He wears a cap with a feather on it; his left arm is around the woman's shoulders. She is lifting a large wine glass. Her companion is holding a large pitcher
A pretty country girl, embraced by a handsome young military officer, turns her back on an ugly countryman on her left who tires to draw her away form her dangerous admirer
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '5' 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 state, with plate number, of no. 11665 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
A print with two images, the first of which is an amorous young couple, enclosed in a garland of fruits and flowers joined at the bottom by a head of a blindfolded cherub on crossed cornucopias of fruit and coin. The second image can be viewed by turning the print upside-down image and shows an older, quarreling couple enclosed by a garland of entwined leafless branches and supported at the bottom by a horned head of a demon. Six lines of verse describing each scene are engraved on the happy couple's side on two goatskins suspended on either side of the image, and on the unhappy couple's side on a skin of an ass and that of a bear, suspended in similar fashion of the sides. The verse on the happy couple's side begins as follows, "When two fond fools together meet, each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet ..." On the unhappy couple's side the verse begins "The nuptials o'er with angry brow the married pair, both peevish grow ..."
Alternative Title:
Unhappy marriage
Description:
Title and imprint from another impression in an Andrew Edmunds sales catalogue (viewed October 2016)., With Carington Bowles series number '33' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles in S. Paul's Churchyard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, and Metamorphic pictures
First in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's dancing envelope, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., "No. 1.", and Sheet trimmed to design.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Love letters, and Postal stationery
