"Three women and a man stand drinking gin in an interior in St Giles's, London; the woman on the left grabs a bottle from a shelf, to her right a woman holds up a gin cup; the man stands behind the three women leaning against a clock and a fireplace."...
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint Giles's
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1789, by G.T. Stubbs, No. 2 Compton Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Bottles, Gin, Longcase clocks, and Fireplaces
Elegant and affluent customers enjoy ices in a grand room in London's fashionable St. James's. The female server behind the counter is elegantly dressed and looks with ease out of the window. A finely dressed gentleman leans against the counter at rig...
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint James's
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
G.T. Stubbs
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Ice cream & ices, Eating & drinking, and Fireplaces
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[January 1789]
Call Number:
789.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fox, wearing a coat, hangs in profile to the right from a very high gibbet. His large brush is inscribed 'Hereditary Right' (cf. British Museum Satires 7381); he is excreting, the ordure being inscribed 'Run my Mead'. Above the gibbet is a scroll: ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Dent and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Regency, Politics and government, Gallows, Justice, and Liberty
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802, Broglie, Victor François, Duc de, 1718-1804, Breteuil, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de, 1730-1807, Montmorency Luxembourg, Anne-Charles-Sigismond, duc de, 1737-1803, Montmorency Luxembourg, Madeleine-Suzanne-Adèlaide de Voyer d'Argenson de Palmy, duchesse de, 1752-1813, Massereene, Clotworthy Skeffington, Earl of, 1743-1805, Polignac, Yolande-Martine-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de, 1749?-1793, Polignac, Diane, comtesse de, Lamotte, Jeanne de Luz de Saint-Remy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791, and Lamotte, Marc-Antoine-Nicolas, comte de
"Lady Charlotte Gordon and Col. Lennox leap over a broom which lies on the floor; she holds him by the left wrist and points towards a nuptial bed decorated with a coat of arms (that of the Duke of Gordon, freely sketched) and ducal coronet. The Duche...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819, Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte, Duchess of, 1768-1842, and Gordon, Jane Maxwell Gordon, Duchess of, d. 1812
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, Bagpipes, Bed, Bedrooms, Brooms, Glassware, Handguns, Military uniforms, British, and Musical instruments
"Alderman Boydell stands within a magic circle, directing a sacrifice of Shakespeare's plays; these are burning at his feet; the dense smoke which rises from the fire obscures a monument to Shakespeare, concealing the head and shoulders of a figure of...
Alternative Title:
Offering to avarice
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Alderman Boydell stands within a magic circle, directing a sacrifice of Shakespeare's plays; these are burning at his feet; the dense smoke which rises from the fire obscures a monument to Shakespeare, concealing the head and shoulders of a figure of...
Alternative Title:
Offering to avarice
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
