"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse below title: Now by two headed Janus / Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time, ... Shakespeare., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice., and In pencil on verso: [R. Rushworth?].
Publisher:
Published March 20, 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly
Against the background of a high wall with trees on the other side, a small boy (a thief?) carries a white powdered wig in each hand. The powder from one wig has soiled the dress of a fashionably dressed with an enormous hat. The lady angrily pushes the boy away. On the left facing them is a street entertainer, a boy playing the pipe and tabor as two poodles in aprons and one in a cap dance in front of him
Description:
Title from item., Beneath the design are four lines of verse: Ah! heedless boy sad fate alack, Thou makest that white which should be black. Barbers or sweeps in our despite, Will have their jokes or black or white., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies costume: Hat -- Music: gong -- Pets: poodles -- Musical instrument.
Publisher:
Pub'd Decr. 1, 1786 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[1] 'H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Punch (left) points to a large butt or tun inscribed 'WYNNSTAY', from the top of which hang comic masks which encircle its upper circumference; in his right hand is a stick with an ass's head. On the right side of the butt are three figures: Mother Shipton, humpbacked with a profile like Punch's; a demon or satyr, who looks from behind the cask; and a small man or boy, perhaps Tom Thumb. [2] 'View of the Theatre at Wynnstay. I. Evans Esqr del.' A view of the theatre is framed by a curtain held up (left) by Comedy and right by Tragedy. The façade has the date '1782'. [3] 'Wynnstay. H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Amateur actors and actresses dance in a circle round a high pedestal supporting a bust of (?) Shakespeare. They include a Falstaff leering at a lady in Elizabethan dress, a man wearing a tall leek in his hat (? Fluellen), and a French military officer with long queue and cavalier's boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above images., Three designs arranged in a vertical strip, each with its own title and artist's signature., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate from: The European magazine, and London Review, v. 9 (February 1786), page 71., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Theatre at Wynnstay., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 25.8 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of title.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feby. 1, 1786, by I. Sewell, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561 (Ursula), and Wynnstay Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Masks, Barrels, Demons, Theaters, and Pedestals
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[1] 'H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Punch (left) points to a large butt or tun inscribed 'WYNNSTAY', from the top of which hang comic masks which encircle its upper circumference; in his right hand is a stick with an ass's head. On the right side of the butt are three figures: Mother Shipton, humpbacked with a profile like Punch's; a demon or satyr, who looks from behind the cask; and a small man or boy, perhaps Tom Thumb. [2] 'View of the Theatre at Wynnstay. I. Evans Esqr del.' A view of the theatre is framed by a curtain held up (left) by Comedy and right by Tragedy. The façade has the date '1782'. [3] 'Wynnstay. H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Amateur actors and actresses dance in a circle round a high pedestal supporting a bust of (?) Shakespeare. They include a Falstaff leering at a lady in Elizabethan dress, a man wearing a tall leek in his hat (? Fluellen), and a French military officer with long queue and cavalier's boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above images., Three designs arranged in a vertical strip, each with its own title and artist's signature., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate from: The European magazine, and London Review, v. 9 (February 1786), page 71., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Theatre at Wynnstay., and Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feby. 1, 1786, by I. Sewell, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561 (Ursula), and Wynnstay Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Masks, Barrels, Demons, Theaters, and Pedestals
On the right, a hatched-faced woman, in a Duchess of Devonshire hat and costume, sits in front of a harpsichord with a sheet of music entitled "Time has not thinned my flowing hair." On her lap is a book labelled Werter (Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther). Behind her on the wall between two framed paintins is a round clock carved with the motif of Father Time and his scythe. On the left a very bored looking young man slouches in his chair. Out of his pocket sticks a paper on which is written "Ye gods ye gave to me a wife." On the floor in front of the woman lies a book entitled "Loves labour lost by Shakes (i.e. William Shakespeare's Loves labour lost)."
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Sepr. 10th, 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, G: Square
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Floor coverings, Furniture, and Harpsichords
On a street corner just outside the door of an adjacent building, a foppish young gentleman who stands with his one hand on his hip and holds a cane in the other, rests his foot on a bucket that he has kicked over. The owner of the bucket, a pretty young maidservant, brandishes her mop in his face in retaliation
Description:
Title etched above image. and Four lines of verse in two columns below print and above imprint statement: As Lucifer proud with a s ugly a face, Billy Prig kicks the pailwith puppyish grace, Sweet Sir replies Betty, I thank yo for that, And return you the favour -- There's tit for your tat.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Cobblestone streets, Dandies, Mops & mopsticks, Relations between the sexes, Servants, and Young women
"A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., For a description of a later state with variant imprint, see no. 7118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image., No. 35 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
Subject (Topic):
Toby jugs, Obesity, Tobacco pipes, Gardens, and Pitchers
"A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Later state of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1786., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Londo[n]
Subject (Topic):
Toby jugs, Obesity, Tobacco pipes, Gardens, and Pitchers
Figure on the left, seated at a table in background: "All I desire of mortal man is for to love whilst he can." Figure on the right seated at a table in background: "Well said Robby-- his father will broom stick him."
Alternative Title:
Lover's leap
Description:
Title from item., Engraver from unverified card catalog record., Temporary local subject terms: Pellegrine Treves -- Nobodies -- Mottoes: 'Ich Dien' -- Mottoes: Pro bono publico -- Brooms -- Morganatic marriages -- Pictures amplify subject -- Emblems: 3 ostrich feathers for Prince of Wales -- Lighting: Chandelier -- Cats out of the bag -- Flastaff -- Venus (Mythological character) -- Inscription on broom: Pro bono publico., Watermark: C Patch., and On verso in pencil: George T. Stubbs attrib. by J Reilly, 7-29-83.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 21, 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Robinson, Mary Darby, 1758-1800
