Title from item., Plate numbered '218' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Courtship, Draperies, Living rooms, Love letters, Sofas, Wallpapers, Women, Writing materials, and Young adults
"Heading to engraved verses. A loutish would-be fashionable (left) stands, hat in hand, 'staring like a stuck pig', at a fashionably dressed young woman, who trips off gaily to the right, snapping her fingers at her admirer. She holds a small closed parasol. The last of twelve verses: 'With the use of my speech, I recovered my voice, Says I, "My dear lewel; pray take your own choice; For the future I'll serve, one my love will not slight, That's my King & my Country, with joy & delight. Derry down &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Love at first sight
Description:
Title from text engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., On second plate, twelve numbered quatrains of verse arranged in three columns above imprint line: Through Dublin, as once I was trudging away, about six O'Clock in the middle of the day ..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Droll series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Lower plate numbered '416' in the lower left corner, on second plate., and Watermark: John Hall 1800.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 30th, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
In an outdoor setting, Charles Fox, with his hands clasped as in prayer, pronounces his adoration for a demure looking Mrs. Robinson, who stands next to him while an amused Prince of Wales watches them from behind a tree
Alternative Title:
Paradise regained
Description:
Title from item. and Signed in image "SB". Attribution to James Gillray from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse in two parts. - The anonymous first part is by Henry Carey: "Of all the girls that are so smart,". - The second part, entitled 'Pretty Sally's answer', begins: "Of all the lads in London town,". - In four columns with the title and two woodcuts over the first two; columns separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 24. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Illustration at the head of Henry Carey's poem (also sometimes 'Sally of our alley') in letterpress, shows a scene in a cobbler's work-room. The apprentice has thrown down a shoe on a last to embrace 'Sally', unconscious of his master who stands behind him with lifted strap
Description:
Title from letterpress poem printed below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Date from letterpress at bottom of page., Date engraved on print: Published Nov. 1, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on upper side., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Song attribution below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon. Mr. Braham. Mr. Dignum. Mr. Hill. Mr. Taylor, &c. &c., Fifty-six lines of verse arranged in four columns on broadside portion of sheet: Of all the girls that are so smart, there's none like pretty Sally ..., and Plate numbered '411' in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 9th November, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, Fleet Street, London
"A night scene, with a full moon, outside the corner house of a London square, an equestrian statue among trees in the background. A young officer in dandified uniform kneels on the cobbled roadway, shouting up to the house Fire! Fire! Fire! A lady, in nightgown and cap, looks from a first-floor window, crying, Where! Where! Where! He answers, right hand on his heart: Here! Here! Here!!! The words are below the title"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Self introduction and declaration
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Three lines of underlined dialogue below title: Fire! Fire! Fire! Where! Where! Where! Here! Here! Here!!!
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Row houses, Dandies, British, and Soldiers
A fashionably dressed couple sit on a upholstered sofa embrassing and kissing; a rug on the floor completes the decorations of the room
Description:
Titles etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 29 x 21 cm., and Mounted on: Map of Gorteennamrock, Ballyhibbin & Bally morris situate in the county of Limerick, the estate of Thos. Henry Roys[?] / J. J. Byrne. Dublin: Forster & Co., 1852.
A young man wearing and student's cap and gown embraces a young woman who holds a basket of peaches
Alternative Title:
Conjugating the verb amo
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by McLean, Haymarket and Dean & Munday, lithos., Threadneedle Street
Subject (Topic):
Students, Young adults, Courtship, Baskets, and Peaches
A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground".
Alternative Title:
Cure for the heart ache
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Death, Coffins, Courtship, Sexual attraction, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, and Costume
