Title from item., Printmaker's name etched on bed frame in the image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: This impudence of age, whence can it spring? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Matrimony -- Beds -- Candle tables -- Picture frames -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Bible: Joseph and Potiphar's wife., Printmaker identified on recto in unidentified hand as "Sr. the Bickham" and dated "July 1768.", and Mounted to 23 x 31 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, [March 15, 1740]
Call Number:
740.03.15.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Caleb turn'd tinker and Caleb turned tinker
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price one shilling; With the daily Gazetteers of February the eighteenth, March [the] first & March [the] fifteenth 1739/40"--Bottom of plate., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Faults still they find with that, or this, and something always is amiss ... Hudibras., and Watermark.
"Satire on Italian opera singers and their female admirers, a copy in reverse of British Museum satire no. 1694. Senesino, tall and ungainly, stands a quayside, recoiling from the effusive farewells of two ladies, one holding a handkerchief to her eyes; a number of gentlemen raise their hats and one bows low; two other men stand behind, one with a walking stick and a cloak over his arm. To the right, two servants, one a black man, carry a board, labelled "Ready Mony", piled high with bulging purses; Two jeering men to the right of the original print do not appear. Printed above a song mocking ladies crying at the departure of Senesino with music 'Set for ye German flute &c.'; illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies lamentation ye loss of Senesino
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered "38" in upper right., Sheet trimmed to image with loss of all text and music. Title, numbering, and printmaker from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., On page 43 in volume 1., and A ms. note in Steevens's hand above: A contemporary print of English ladies &c bidding farewell to Senesino.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bernardi, Francesco, 1686-1758., Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Characters of several ingenious, designing gentlewomen, that have put into it
Description:
Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of text below title: A barber's daughter near the Exchange, who, they say could upon a good occasion ..., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be had one hundred sortments of political and satyrical prints., Letterpress broadside illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 12.1 x 21.2 cm.)., and Temporary local subject terms: Exterior of Royal Exchange -- Lottery -- Trades: pickpockets -- Trades: booksellers -- Trades: lottery dealers -- Placards for distributing lottery shares -- Lottery Office -- Lottery tickets -- Bag of money -- Lighting: lanterns as signs for Lottery Office -- Birds: cock -- Lottery dealers: Berry & Jordan -- Lottery dealers: Hazard -- Lottery dealers: F. Wilson -- Lottery dealers: Pachter -- Signs: Lottery Office -- Literature: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. The fifth volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown; done from the originals. London : printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1721 -- Bookshops.
A family seated around a table, with a couple on one side, a child in the middle, and the third woman drinking from a large bowl. On the table is a lit candels, drinking glasses, paper and pipes. On the walls hang pictures., Title etched below image., Dated by curator., Verse etched below image in two columns on either side of title, three lines each: See here the various scenes of human life, A debauched husband and a drunken wife, One stupid, faithless, haughty when reprov'd, Loved by her husband, her gallant she lov'd, The husband tho' fortune frown tho' wife desert, Finds a sprightly dame that reviv's his heart., Sheet trimmed around image into plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 71 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Couples, Families, Interiors, and Intoxication
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Novr. 25, 1740.
Call Number:
740.11.25.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the British government's position in relation to the European political situation in 1740, in thirteen compartments with a scene for each month surrounded by a scrolling rococo framework and a central rectangular scene entitled 'A Year of Wonders' in which Frederick William I of Prussia (who died in May 1740), Emperor Charles VI (who died in October 1740), Empress Anna of Russia (died October 1740) and Pope Clement XII (died February 1740) approach Charon to be rowed across the river Styx ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political calendar for the year 1740
Description:
Title engraved above image., After a design by Gravelot. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom., Design in center of sheet over which is pasted a smaller sheet with letterpress "London almanack for the year of our Lord 1741 being the first after leap year"., Folded and mounted to 56 x 38 cm., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Contemporary ms. annotations in two unidentified hands on recto.
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, their wigs tossed on the ground alongside their losing hands. The windows are shuttered and the room lit with candles in wall sconces and in candlesticks on the table. On the right one man is being restrained by his friends as he tries to attack the winner of the stacks in their game. On the left a young man sits at a table signing over his plate and jewelry as an angry man stands over him
Description:
Title in manuscript on mounting sheet., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plagiary on Hogarth's design of A rake's progress, plate 6, "Scene in a gambling house.", Copy of No. 2235 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Mounted to 18 x 26 cm.
A woman (Liberty?) stands on top the prostrate figures of a clergyman and a lion inside a large courtyard. A bird (a dove of peace?) looks on from the eaves of the building. The clergyman wears a wig and clerical bands. The woman, with a laurel crown on her head, holds in her left hand a staff of liberty surmounted by a cap of liberty. In her raised right hand she holds an extractor with the last of lion's teeth. His other teeth lie scattered on the ground. Dialogue ribbons are attached to the woman, clergyman, and bird. The woman says, "Daniel is conquer'd, the lion slain. Let peace & unity for ever reign." A sign "Coach office" hangs over the courtyard gate
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Dated from broadside: The Lyon in love, or, The political farmer., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.