Print showing George IV dressed as a woman sitting in a parlor greeting his female guests, one guest kneeling on a cushion and kissing his hand may be Lady Conyngham
Alternative Title:
Pleasures of petticoat government
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
"A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jum...
Alternative Title:
Transmutation of sexes
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
"The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right) in which a small monkey is also looking. A maid-ser...
Alternative Title:
Miss Brazen just breecht
Description:
Title from text engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Clothing & dress, Cross dressing, Dogs, and Women domestics
"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who take...
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
"A dandy lies back fainting in a chair, his limbs rigid, supported by three others while a fourth (left) draws the curtain, cutting off a view of the (distant) stage where a singer is posturing. The three supporters say: "I am so frighten'd I can hard...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 8th, 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
"Portrait, half-length, directed to right, in military uniform, eyes to front, holding baton under her left arm; after Phelps."--British Museum online catalogue
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a f...
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a f...
"Portrait, almost half length, standing directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding baton tucked under left arm, right arm at her side, dressed in a man's military uniform with a cocked hat over chin-length curly hair, with a ribbon and a f...
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: Jack Russel leaving and delighted Devil, bishop and Duke of Wellington looking at him; second panel: the King, dressed like a women sailor climbing a rope ladder with the Queen pushing him with a spear."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Jack Russell's retreat from South Devon
Description:
Titles from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Devil, Bishops, Cross dressing, Ladders, and Spears
"Leach (right), the Vice-Chancellor, dressed as a woman, with a trimmed bonnet over his wig, sits on a corded chest inscribed Commissio[n] ; against this leans a book: Justifia et honor. He grasps a moneybag inscribed 10,000, and holds the ear of a fo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Smolky, 18 Rupert Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cross dressing, Bonnets, Chests, Foxes, Worms, Parasites, Cannons, Cannon balls, Bayonets, Shackles, Ladders, Gallows, Liberty cap, Monkeys, Mirrors, and Fools' caps
Johnson, J., active approximately 1743-1760s, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1750s]
Call Number:
Portraits Sn671 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half-length in an oval, directed to right, wearing tricorn over dark, chin-length curls and a plain coat with large cuffs, tucking right hand in waistcoat, looking towards the viewer; after Wardell, altered from a portrait by Faber after Fr...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by T. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross
"James Allen, a woman, standing whole length in profile to left, dressed in man's clothes, holding a hat in her left hand, her right hand reaching out towards wife Abigail, standing in profile to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from captions below images.
Publisher:
Pub. by I.S. Thomas, 2 York Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Allen, Abigail Naylor, and Allen, James, 1787-1829,
"A man dressed as a woman, in the character of the Duenna (Lord Melbourne), standing at centre, closing a window with her left hand, pushing away a young woman with her right hand (Queen Victoria), lest she should listen to the serenade of the young m...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and A. Ducôte's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840, and Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Queens, Cross dressing, Windows, Serenading, and Guitars
