"Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left hand is a cup whose contents she is pouring on the ground. The panniers of her dress fly backwards revealing two bulging pockets, one full of guineas, the other of notes or cheques inscribed '£1000, £300', &c. She is saying: "Famish'd & spent relieving others woe, Your poor devoted Suppliant only begs, This morsel for to buy a bit of Bread." The black clouds of smoke from which the pitchfork projects rise in a pillar of cloud from the pit of the theatre where flames are indicated, from which come the words 'Encore! Encore!' In the background a temple of Fame on a mountain-top is collapsing, the pillars shattered; the figure of Fame falls backward, dropping his trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Melpomene (Mythological character) -- Purses of money -- Falling figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame -- Symbols: daggers -- Symbols: goblets -- Theater stage., and Counter watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
"Officers promenade, swaggering selfconsciously; three couples are arm-in-arm. One pair, one of whom is a lancer with a moustache, arrogantly stare at a taller and more dignified Life Guards officer wearing a huge curling plume on the crest of his helmet. All have small high waists with belts or sashes, bulging breasts, high collars, and stocks, narrow and sometimes tiny coat-tails, tight sleeves, high padded shoulders; usually a bush of hair projects from a fantastic shako or helmet. The two Life Guards officers have boots, wide at the top, reaching to the thigh. Two officers wear fantastically large plumed shakos. An officer in back view, (?) the Duke of York, wears the plumed hat of a field-marshal, and is arm-in-arm with a very tall thin officer"--British Museum online catalogue, description of S.W. Fores copy
Alternative Title:
Heroes of 1819
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Possible reissue of print published by S.W. Fores., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. No. 13059 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Le Petit 20 Capel St.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Military uniforms
Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Monsieur le Frizuer
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., and For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Monsieur le Frizuer
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Second of three plates on leaf 58., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.4 x 10.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "11".
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication from item., Below image: "Get thee Glass Eyes, and like a Scurvy Poitician, seem to see the things thou dost not". Vide Shakespear's Lear., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Pen and pencil drawings verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany.14.1793. by J. Aitken No.14 [4 reversed] Castle Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Mentally ill persons, and Daggers & swords
"A fight between two robbers, one of them a woman, and three armed runners on the road by a milestone marked as 11 miles from St Giles's Pound."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., One line of text directly below title: A burlesque parody on that tender song call'd Love & Glory. Written & sung by Gaby Grim., Twelve lines of verse arranged in three columns above imprint statement: Young Bobby was as blythe a youth, As ever grac'd an attic story ..., Plate numbered '449' in the 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 Decr. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate signed on verso in contemporary hand: John Smith; window mounted to 23 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. & J. Stratfords, No. 112 Holborn Hill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Handguns, Lingerie, and Clothing & dress
"An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing book lying on the floor, sporting prints or other pictures on the wall behind, including two of a black and a white boxer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.312., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath, some of which have William Cole's July 1827 imprint in lower left. This is perhaps a later state with imprint burnished from plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Accidents
A scene with two men in a sitting room decorated with a rug, curtains, and a wall full of framed sporting prints: The one gentleman sits at a table playing a flute. The other gentleman is practicing fencing moves, a manual on the floor beside him. His lunge at the target on the back of the door has impaled the butler on the other side in the chest causing him to drop the tea service tray
Description:
Title etched 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Flutes
