Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 8b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a mug, its base wider than its mouth, with a small handle mounted up close to the lip. The side of the vessel is decorated with the figure of a man (three-quarter length) above a coat of arms; in the China Room at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, whose annotation is present below image., and Inlaid on page 8b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Leaf 63. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., In the manner of Rowlandson, and likely engraved after one of his drawings., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 63 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram', or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building with a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground (right) is a large thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image, Illustration to a song in Scots engraved beneath the title with the refrain: 'O! gin my Wife wad drink Hooly and Fairly'., Verse in three columns below title begins: "Oh what had I ado for to marry My wife she drinks naithing but Sack and Canary ...", Numbered "581" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 36 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tattered gloves from which his fingers protrude; a cane is suspended from his left wrist. He holds in his left hand a small tankard with an open lid indicating in London 'a dram' or gin. In the background is a small house, partly visible on the left, outside which stands the wife, drunk and flourishing a similar tankard; a wine-bottle lies at her feet, a man leans from the window. On the right is a farm building wiuth a horse, two cows, and a broken fence. In the foreground right is a large thistle."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement "Published as the act directs, 4 June 1787." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
Novr. 1, 1790.
Call Number:
790.11.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean man wearing a hat sits in profile to the left, holding a large frothing tankard and smoking a long pipe. His expression is one of pleased anticipation. Before him (right) is a round table on which are a tobacco-box and lighted lantern. Behind is a casement window, its blackness indicating night."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the series: Symptoms of drunkenness., and Variant state, with abbreviated title, of No. 7771 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Jack Fletcher, nearly whole length, seated to front in the kitchen of the Revd Henry Frinsham, looking towards the viewer, smoking a pipe, holding a mug in his right hand, leaning on a table on which lies a bottle, wearing hat, 'Foul-Weather Coat' of Berkshire, shirt and breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.78., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1735-1740; see British Museum online catalogue., Twenty-three lines of biographical information etched below image: Jack Fletcher was perhaps as extraordinary a being as ever nature formed ..., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 226., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Jack, active 1735,
Subject (Topic):
Pipes (Smoking), Drinking vessels, Hats, and Coats
Jack, a sailor, sits on a settee with his 'prize' a pretty young woman in a well-furnished room. On the table beside them is a wine bottle and two glasses. Behind them on the wall is a pair of sconces and a pictures that amplifies the subject -- a man looks down up them, toasting them with the glass in his hand. On the floor is an elaborately patterned carpet; the sofa is upholstered in a stripe pattern
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '165' in lower right corner., and Cf. No. 5798 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Published 12 May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Sofas, and Sconces
Leaf 99. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man whole length standing in profile to right. He has a bulbous nose, a stubbly chin, a protruding waistcoat. In his right hand is a tankard with an open lid, in his left a whip with a long lash. He wears a low wide three-cornered hat, a plain neckcloth, coat, long waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with plate number altered from "14" to "17". Cf. No. 5162 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. 6" in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Tankards -- Coachman whips -- Jehu -- Bible: 2 Kings ix.20, and Second of three plates on leaf 99.
"Portrait of a man whole length standing in profile to right. He has a bulbous nose, a stubbly chin, a protruding waistcoat. In his right hand is a tankard with an open lid, in his left a whip with a long lash. He wears a low wide three-cornered hat, a plain neckcloth, coat, long waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "V. 6" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Mounted to 20 x 14 cm., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 11 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of series numbers.
