"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
Title from note in pencil in lower right corner. and Signed in pencil with artist's initials and date in lower left corner; artist's name also written in pencil on mount.
Subject (Geographic):
Sintra (Portugal)
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
The interior of a neat farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (right) to stands talking to him, a jug in her left hand as she gestures with her right. To the left of the farmer their two young children, a son (holding a candlestick) and daughter (animated like her mother) stand before the hearth which is equipped with andirons and pots. Behind them along the wall hang baskets, onions and kitchen utensils (colander). The farmer's wife has been identified as Mrs. Mary Bradshaw. In the adjoining room a picture of two horses racing
Description:
Title from Smith., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title?, Engraved by Haid from a painting by Zoffany., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: farmer's cottage -- Furniture: kitchen table -- Ladder-back chair -- Armchair -- Kitchen utensils -- Literature: The farmer's return by David Garrick -- Actresses: Mrs. Mary Bradshaw, d. 1780, as the farmer's wife., and Mounted.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Subject (Name):
Bradshaw, Mary, -1780, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), and Pitchers
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left
Alternative Title:
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in lower left 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.
Subject (Topic):
Conversation, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Dwellings
Title written on verso in contemporary, unidentified hand, partially loss of text. "No. C"., Signed and dated in image, bottom left: "WI.B D 1780"., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Unidentified artist., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
A view of Newstead Abbey as seen from the front beyond the surrounding stone wall. Two boys, one leaning on the wall the other sitting on it, watch as a coach pulls around the circular drive, in the center of which stands a fountain
Description:
Title and artist from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., Inscribed by artist in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow.", Ms. note in pencil, in an unidentified hand, on mount below image: "In the summer of 1798, B. [i.e. Byron] took possession of Newstead Abbey. Drawing was bought at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection, Strawberry Hill, in the year 1842.", Probably part of the collection sold at the StrawberryHill sale, viii, 154, dispersed as described in A.T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3678., and Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Nottinghamshire.
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 and Newstead Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Abbeys, Dwellings, and Historic buildings
"A young woman registers grief outside a cottage (right), in which a woman is spinning. She is watched by two fashionably dressed passers-by. The verses end: 'I am sure it is not my fault, That I must die an old Maid.'"--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., Companion print to: No rest in the grave, or, The second appearance of Miss Bailey's ghost, One line of text above design: The music publish'd by Skillern & Challoner, 25 Greek Street, Soho., Two lines of text directly below title: (Intended as a companion to the second appearance of Miss Bailey's Ghost, just publish'd) sung by Mr. Jordan, with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane., Twenty lines of verse arranged in three columns in lower portion of plate: Last night the dogs did bark, I went to the window to see..., and Plate numbered '437' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 1, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, Single women, and Birdcages
Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill as viewed from the northeast. The house at center is mostly obscured by trees, with a lawn extending from the front of the house to the left. Caged hedges with hedge arches border a path on the near side of the lawn, and two women walk on the path towards the house. A man pushing a wheelbarrow stands in the right foreground, and next to him sits a girl with a basket of flowers
Alternative Title:
Northeast view of the above
Description:
Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; "the above" in title refers to the drawing entited Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill ..., which is mounted above this drawing on the same page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., Date based on that of the drawing mounted above this drawing on the same page., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) 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 (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
