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 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, 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, 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...
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
"A lady in the uniform of the Tenth (Royal) Hussars, except for a flowing skirt, gallops sword in hand at the head of a troop. She has a big false moustache, her pelisse streams from her shoulders. An officer riding near her looks back at her."--Briti...
"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
