"A tall man and a short man swap insults while trying to reach the bell above a door."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of caption below title: "Cannot you reach the handle of the bell; what use are such little monkey's as you?" -"Why for such great monkey's as you to wait upon.", Plate numbered '372' in the lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. B. 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Prince Leopold (right), in uniform, puts his head through a glassless aperture in a window in the door of his 'Grecian Establish[ment]--Co[burg]', to look intently at a fat Turk who stands in profile to the right, elaborately dressed and holding a long pipe with smoking bowl. The door, partly cut off by the right margin, is flanked by a Corinthian pillar and set in a wall on which are placards: 'This . Shop!!! will shortly open under entire new Management--Vivant [sic] Rex'; a Union Jack poster (partly covered); the Russian eagle, and a fleur-de-lis, the two last inscribed 'Loan'. The Turk: 'What have you taken the Shop? well if you take my advice you will not give Your Customers too much Credit for I can tell you they are a queer set to deal with by the bye they nearly ruined me--and mind that you look sharp after your Shopmen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 50 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
Subject (Topic):
Turks, Ethnic stereotypes, Doors & doorways, National emblems, and Signs (Notices)
"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.
"A handsome well-dressed young courtesan leads the way out of a room, her left hand on the door-handle, her right held behind her to take the guineas which an aged and decrepit old rake gives her with a leer. A handsome well-furnished room is indicated. Above the chimney-piece is a heavily-framed picture of Danaë catching the shower of gold (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9813)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Female physician in full practice
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate numbered "72" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Men are fighting with clubs on a wide upper landing and on a flight of stairs (right) which leads to the hall below. Two doors open on to the landing, over one (right) is inscribed 'Freedom of Election'; through the other more men are seen with clubs, advancing to join the fray."--British Museum online catalogue and "During the general election of 1796 the boroughs of Inverkeithing (including also Stirling, Dunfermline, Queensferry, and Culross) were contested by Sir John Henderson of Fordel (the ministerial candidate) and the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone. The election of a delegate for Dunfermline was of vital importance. To secure this (for Johnstone) a party of Dunfermline councillors were lodged at the inn at Kinghorn, where the Town Clerk, John Hutton, and the hostess of the chief inn, Johanna (or Luckie) Skinner, were expert in managing elections. The inn was assaulted (unsuccessfully) by a body from Dunfermline, including colliers from Fordel (supporters of Henderson). After a series of incidents, arrests, &c, Johnstone was elected (20 June), though the delegate for Dunfermline voted for Sir John because the councillors who had been successfully taken to Kinghorn were under arrest. The election was confirmed on petition (Mar. 1797). The persons depicted include Col. Erskine, the leader of the attacking party, Hutton, and Skinner, and a postilion at the foot of the stairs who did great execution with the spoke of a wheel. 'Collection', No. 212. Kay, No. cccvii."--Dorothy George note
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., Text at top of image: Freedom of election., and Two impressions in the folder, the second a later photomechanical print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, William, Sir, 1770-1813, Hutton, John, active 1796, and Skinner, Johanna, active 1796
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Fighting, Interiors, Stairways, and Doors & doorways
"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door ..., another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist from statement of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Proof before letters. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and imprint "London, Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson ..." below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 123 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
W. Dickinson
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Abbeys, Monks, Doors & doorways, and Bells
An architectural drawing depicting the cross-section of a house with the most detail being lent to mantels, doorways, and a staircase featuring an ornamental bannister
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Chimneypieces, Mantels, Doors & doorways, and Stairways
Page 121.19. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Chimney side
Description:
Beginning of title from first drawing in the series, found on page 121.18 in the same volume; remainder of title written at top of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., With a numbered key at bottom of image that identifies the pictures that hung on the depicted wall., Third in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Gallery at Strawberry Hill, with the number "2" written in upper right corner of sheet. On verso are the first and second drawings in the series: Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery : the end. And where the great door is., and Tipped in as page 121.19 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Pictures, Doors & doorways, and Chimneypieces
