Eleven plain, elderly women walk in a procession from left to right between the tombstones of a country church yard. Two of them, at the head of the procession, carry a small coffin with a cat's effigy on it. Behind them walks a crying woman with a handkerchief raised to her eyes. She is the only one who does not carry a cat under her arm. The feline participants of the funeral appear agitated
Description:
Title from item., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: No lover's corse this virgin train attend ..., Printseller's announcement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of caricatures and other humorous prints and drawings. Admittance 1 shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mentioned in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, under no. 8558, as in Anthony de Rothschild's collection, v. 2, p. 138.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland at Garrick's, Richard No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Cemeteries, Churches, Coffins, Crying, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Single women, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. The background is the north front of Chelsea Hospital showing its pediment and eastern portion. This is very freely sketched, as are two pensioners with crutches by the doorway. Beneath the title is etched: 'Epitaph on the late Dr Monsey, supposed to have been written by himself. Here lie my old limbs - my vexation now ends, For I've liv'd much too long for myself & my Friends As to church-yards & grounds which the Parsons call holy, Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, & founded on folly; In short, I despise them; and as for my Soul, Which may mount the last day with my bones from this hole I think that it really hath nothing to fear From the God of mankind, whom I truly revere. What the next world may be, little troubles my pate If not better than this, I beseech thee, Oh! Fate, When the bodies of millions fly up in a riot, To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet. Peter Pindar.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into the last century and Epitaph on the late Dr. Monsey, supposed to be written by himself
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Chelsea Hospital: exterior, north front -- Dr. Messenger Monsey's epitaph -- Chelsea pensioners' uniforms -- Clock on pediment of Chelsea Hospital., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Veteran's hospitals., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 313 x 274 mm, on sheet 425 x 296 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Monsey, Messenger, 1693-1788 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Clocks & watches, Physicians, Crutches, and Veterans
"A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. The background is the north front of Chelsea Hospital showing its pediment and eastern portion. This is very freely sketched, as are two pensioners with crutches by the doorway. Beneath the title is etched: 'Epitaph on the late Dr Monsey, supposed to have been written by himself. Here lie my old limbs - my vexation now ends, For I've liv'd much too long for myself & my Friends As to church-yards & grounds which the Parsons call holy, Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, & founded on folly; In short, I despise them; and as for my Soul, Which may mount the last day with my bones from this hole I think that it really hath nothing to fear From the God of mankind, whom I truly revere. What the next world may be, little troubles my pate If not better than this, I beseech thee, Oh! Fate, When the bodies of millions fly up in a riot, To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet. Peter Pindar.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into the last century and Epitaph on the late Dr. Monsey, supposed to be written by himself
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Chelsea Hospital: exterior, north front -- Dr. Messenger Monsey's epitaph -- Chelsea pensioners' uniforms -- Clock on pediment of Chelsea Hospital., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Veteran's hospitals.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Monsey, Messenger, 1693-1788 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Clocks & watches, Physicians, Crutches, and Veterans
An grocer stands in the center of his shop, legs astride and hands in his pockets. His hair is fashionably dressed and wears a ruffled collar along with an apron. Behind him on the floor is a barrel of sugar and on the shelves canisters of various teas and coffee. A pair of scales hangs from a post
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved below image, eight lines of verse: Peter! When I a baboon see, It always makes me think of thee. They face & shape'd so very like, Who is the man is does not strike? ..., Watermark: countermark C B., and Mounted to 39 x 29 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ten lines of Virgil's altered verse inscribed below design., Temporary local subject terms: Regency crisis -- Allusion to the Duke of Richmond's fortifications -- Allusion to East India Bill -- Allusion to Constitution -- Allusion to Declaratory Bill -- Allusion to Commutation Bill -- Blindfolds -- Banners -- Clergy: bishops -- Ammunition: cannon balls -- Guns: cannons -- Shop taxes -- Treasury -- Window taxes -- Taxes on maidservants -- Swags -- Crowns -- Weapons: pistols -- Literature: altered quotation from Virgil., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield (right side center) and countermark Curiers & Sons (left side center).
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany 27th 1789 by D. Fowler, Soho
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pretyman, George, 1750-1827, and Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of, 1756-1835
A group of three students wearing mortar caps sit in the center of a classroom as their examiners on either side pose questions in Latin. The large student in the middle rubs his chin, a worried look on his face. In the foreground on the right, a dog urinates on an open volume of Aristotle
Alternative Title:
Examination in the public schoots at Ox-d for a degree and Examination in the public schools at Oxford for a degree
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably by James Hook., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Britannia with olive branch on oval shield with crown above.
Publisher:
Pub. June 20, 1789, by I. Bradshaw, Coventry St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Students, Education, Dogs, Classrooms, Examinations, Teachers, and Urination
Twelve carciatures of a clergyman delivering sermons from a pulpit with his clerk sitting below, satirizing the words etched above the clergyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint repeated on the sheet without the title, with slight change in date: Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, October 23, 1789., Two lines of verse below title: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ..., Publisher's advertisement below image on sheet without title: Lately pubd. The prince's bow, Old maids at a cat's funeral, English slavery, Meeting an old friend with a new face, The city assembly, all prints on the Irish embassy, &c. &c., Publisher's announcement on the sheet with title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints and drawings. Admittance one shilling., Cf. No. 7643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Both sheets joined and then cut into three strips.
Twelve carciatures of a clergyman delivering sermons from a pulpit with his clerk sitting below, satirizing the words etched above the clergyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint repeated on the sheet without the title, with slight change in date: Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, October 23, 1789., Two lines of verse below title: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ..., Publisher's advertisement below image on sheet without title: Lately pubd. The prince's bow, Old maids at a cat's funeral, English slavery, Meeting an old friend with a new face, The city assembly, all prints on the Irish embassy, &c. &c., Publisher's announcement on the sheet with title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints and drawings. Admittance one shilling., Cf. No. 7643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Both sheets joined and then cut into three strips.
"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."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Refreshment at Saint Giles's
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1948,0315.6.36., Companion print to: Refreshment at St. James's., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on laid paper backing and matted to 31 x 39.
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
