"A hand-coloured plate divided into four compartments. Waiting for Dinner: an impatient diner shows his servant the time as the servant uncorks a bottle; At Dinner: a man heartily eats as the servant pours wine; After Dinner: A man leans back in his chair as a maid clears the table; Preparing for Supper: A maid puts a napkin on a diner who is guided into his chair by a servant."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title from collective title etched at bottom of plate., Artist signature below lower left design; printmaker signature below lower right design., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled within an etched and aquatinted border., Description based on impression in the Royal Collection, RCIN 810354., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored; sheet 21 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; only lower left design entitled "After dinner" present. The three other designs on plate, the collective title, and the imprint statement have been trimmed from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 22, 1789, by S. Alken, No. 2 Francis Street East, Bedford Square
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Bowls (Tableware), Dining rooms, Fireplaces, Glassware, Interiors, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), Stairways, Tableware, Tobacco, Wine, and Women domestics
A celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing"., Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint., Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81., Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge., and Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Humphries, Richard, d. 1827
From a sign on the back wall, a scene in the 'Grand Imperial Lodge of Odd Fellows" in which Burke, Norfolk, Sheridan, and Fox smoke and dance amongst the other club members some of whom wear swords. One man plays the fiddle. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. In the corner is a dais under a canopy. A dog sits on his hind legs in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Attic miscellany, v. 1., and Mounted to 28 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley and Co.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Full length figure of a man in profile facing left, with a fierce look in his face
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication based on printmaker's known address., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Stanhope, House of Lords, June 9, 1789 -- Bills: defeated bill for relieving members of the Church of England, June 9, 1789 -- Furniture: chairs -- Coronets -- Fool's cap -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Parody of a schoolroom -- Clergy: bishops -- Lawyers: chancellors -- Wheelbarrows -- Spades -- Pick-axes., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published June 18, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Title supplied by cataloger., "Long Live the King!" etched in banner below cameo., Caption inside oval shape: "This ticket will admit / One of the Common Council of this City into - the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, the 23rd, of April 1789, to attend His Majesty on the Solemn Occasion of a Thanksgiving, for the Happy Restoration of his Health.", and On leaf numbered 23 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's stamp: S.W.F., embossed in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Tailor shops -- Second-hand clothing., and Note on verso: In BM, acquired since BM cat.
Publisher:
Published June 9, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank in British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse in six columns below image: Hatfields fair hostess prompt by wit, To arch'ry chosen few ..., and Matted to 47 x 72 cm. ; several of the subjects identified on mat in an unknown hand.
"A lady, partly hidden by a sheaf of corn, reclines against a tree. The Duke of York, wearing regimentals and a mitre, prods her with the end of his crozier. She holds an open book inscribed 'Monody on the Death of the D- of R-d' [Rutland]. In the middle distance and on the extreme left a military officer stands on guard holding a sword and pistol: he says, "I am allways ready to Pimp or Bully."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Babes in the wood with Rawheadon, bloody bones
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, Marquess of Hastings, 1754-1826.