"George IV stands on the doorstep of a London house, his hat under his arm. Lord Conyngham, standing beside him, and bowing low, motions him towards the open door. The King asks: Is your Wife at Home, holding up his right hand so that the fingers simulate horns above the Marquis's head. The latter, who wears a court suit, answers: At your Service! Lady Conyngham peeps from a ground-floor window, saying, He's coming 'pon my Honour. John Bull (right), a sturdy fellow in ill-fitting brown wig and gaiters, and with a heavy cudgel for walking-stick, walks towards them along the pavement. He registers astonishment, saying, Dash my Wig! A footman looks up from the area (left), saying, Cuckoo and holding up two fingers derisively. On the wall: Hamilton Place. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cunning condescension!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate marks., Twenty-four lines of verse are engraved on a second plate printed below; they begin "My island home dear Frank you know, is here thy smiling looks ..." and end "Thy charms will make each place appear, to me my island home.", Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 77 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Geo. IV," and "Ld. Conyngham" identified in ink below title; date "1820" written in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of nine lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Bowing, Windows, and Staffs (Sticks)
Drawing of the door and front facade of the cottage on the grounds of Strawberry Hill. The gable roof portico is decorated with the letter "H" followed by three cross crosslets and then the letter "W", as well as with a star near the peak of the gable. Two rectangles (windows?) with images of tools flank the doorway; a short fence with a quatrefoil design is in the foreground
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Horace Walpole's hand., Date of production based on John Chute's death date., and Mounted on page 176 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Doors & doorways, Fences, Facades, and Dwellings
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
Description:
Title engraved below image., In upper right engraved above image: "Vol.II. P.400.", Plate originally engraved for Horace Walpole's 1784 edition of the Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Volume and plate number added for the 1798 edition of the Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : G.G. and J. Robinson. 1798-1825., and Partial watermark visible: "1 7".
Publisher:
G.G. and J. Robinson
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor
Description:
Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was made., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 26 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 28.3 x 23.2 cm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781.", Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781"., Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J"., Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however.", Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
"A woman seated outside the door of a cottage at right in conversation with a man standing at left, wearing a feathered hat and with his hand resting on the hilt of his sword, hills behind with buildings and figures leading horses; after Kaufmann; oval design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint at bottom of plate includes publisher's name and street address; secondary publication statement immediately below image includes publication date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Illustration to George Ogle's 'The clerk of Oxford's tale', translated from the original by Chaucer., and Mounted on page 103 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Ogle, George, 1704-1746 and Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
"A stout and comely lady stands at the door of an ornamentally rustic cottage, shaking a cloth from which tiny officers leap out, holding money-bags. The cloth is inscribed in large letters 'Pin Money instead of Allowance'. She says: "This is a profitable Plan of his and pays me a Devilish deal better than he can, besides the Patronage!!" Five elderly officers of normal size (right) watch their pigmy rivals with consternation. One looks through his glass, saying, "To waste ones health in unwholesome Climates an then fail of promotion because we cannot fee ****** or Army Agents Agents.!!" Another says: "Mother Careys Chickens by - then we shall have a storm indeed!" A third exclaims: "What to spend our lives in the service of our Country, and to be thus degraded by a parcel of Boys!!" He has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. Another had lost his right arm, and the group seem hardly fit for active service. The 'boys' wear fashionable crescent-shaped cocked hats with plumes, the others old-fashioned hats with cockade, loop, and button. Over the door is inscribed in large letters '... mus Cottage'. It has the ornamental Gothic windows with leaded panes and thatched roof of fashionable rusticity. Beside it is a weeping willow. Below the title: 'NB these Birds have lately been seen hovering about the Horse Guards'. Below the design: 'a Storm Finch, or stormy petterel (the Mother Careys Chickens of the Sailors). Procellaria Pelagica of Linnaeus. is seldom or never seen but in the great Ocean, and then when observed flying near a Ship, is the sure prognostication of a Storm, the analagy [sic] of effect has induced modern Naturalists to class these, with the Pelagica of Linnaeus, tho differing in plumage'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement etched within upper portion of image., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners. Small tears along the right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Promotions, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military officers, British, Amputees, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Eye patches, Mistresses, Peg legs, and Uniforms
"Heading to engraved verses (which survive as a nursery rhyme) ... The woman stands at her cottage door, with her petticoats cut off to the knee. Her little dog barks at her. Behind (left) stands the pedlar, grinning, his box strapped to his shoulder. The verses end: 'He began to bark & she began to cry, Lord ha mercy on me, this is none of I, fal de ral.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Twenty lines of verse below title: There was a little woman as I've heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell, fal de ral, &c..., and Plate numbered '498' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 29, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Baskets, Eggs, Dogs, and Peddlers
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
