Volume 2, page 77. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Volume 2, page 78. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: Ostendunt terris hunc tantum fata neque ultra esse finent., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 78 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Design in an oval; a copy of British Museum satire no. 7790 with the title "a beau". A half-length portrait of a man directed to the left but looking to the right with a slight smile on his face. His hair is very frizzed out beneath his hat and tied in a queue. He wears a coat with a high collar, a fringed cravat tied in a bow. His coat is buttoned at the waist. His right hand is gloved and holds a single eyeglass to his right eye. Under his left arn is a small cane or riding-whip
Description:
Title from text below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of plate numbering and date erased from sheet. Plate number and publication date supplied from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '364' in lower left corner., No. 17 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 Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Title from item., Date based on that of the volume in which this trade card was inserted., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Inlaid to 24.5 x 15.6 cm and tipped in at end flyleaf in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
"Lord Stanhope, stooping in profile to the left, hurries furtively from an open doorway into the street, his right hand raised, his left hand holding his hat behind his back. Rolled documents project from his pocket inscribed 'Toasts'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., Series title and number from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of series title., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 395., and With a literaturea llusion to Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret and referencing the Revolution Society.
"A foppishly dressed man stands full face, holding a cane against his left shoulder. The fingers of his right hand are extended to display a large ring on the fourth finger. He wears a high-crowned hat, a voluminous swathing round his neck apparently of spotted gauze; a high collar at the back of his head reaches his hat-brim. His breeches are high in the waist and long in the leg where they are tied; low wrinkled top-boots show striped stockings. His coat is cut away to form tails. Beside him is a small dog with a ruff-like collar."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: 'Whoe,er, with curious eye, has rang'd Through Ovids tales, has Seen, How Jove, incens'd, to Monkies chang'd A tribe of worthless Men, The Brute with Contempt the man surveyd Nor would a name bestow, But Woman lik'd the motley breed And Calld this thing a Beau.', and Watermark (partial): initials G R below shield.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 29, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, and Rings
"Satire against Barnave as a Janus-headed figure, holding the civil list as a tied sack in his hand, with 3-line verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Homme du peuple 1789
Description:
Title from item., "Janus" etched below image in lower left; "Brutus" etched below image in lower right., Illustration from an unidentified book with another portion of an illustration on verso., Text below image begins: Tantot froid, tantot chaud, tantot blanc ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Declaration of Rights of Man -- Mythology: reference to Janus -- Literature: allusion to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- Allusion to French Revolution., Watermark (partial); probably fleur-de-lis in an oval frame., and With a stamp of Bibliotheca Lindesiana in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Barnave, Antoine, 1761-1793
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Janus (Roman deity), and Bags
"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair is a small straw hat with a high silk crown from which a veil hangs down her back. On the wall behind her is a picture: 'Nina', a small thin man kneels before the stout and terrified Nina (who believes him to be the ghost of her lover)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Martin Van Butchell, 1735-1812 -- Literature: allusion to Berkeley's Nina, or, The Madness of Love -- Pictures amplifying subject: Nina -- Furniture: armchairs -- Foot stools -- Clothing: garters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Henry Wigstead or William Holland., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Hollands exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitce one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespearian costume -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 3 -- Dogs -- Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, in House of Commons, 6 May, 1791., and Mounted to 35 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
