A fashionably dressed woman sits (right) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor
Alternative Title:
Convenience of modern dress
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from contemporary ms. note., After Gillray., Unsigned copy in reverse of No. 8897 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Watermark: C. Taylor., and Mss. notation in lower margin, dated '1797' in black ink.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
Title from item., Plate numbered "387" in lower left., Variant state of no. 4561 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Hunt -- Sports: fox hunting -- Female dress: riding habit.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, at their Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
"Plate 58 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. A ranting, unkempt preacher bends in profile to the right over a reading-desk on which lies an open book, to which he points. He stands on tiptoe, shouting "You'll all go to the Devil!!" He wears old-fashioned dress with clerical bands. Cf. British Museum Satires no. 9121. Both sermons are quoted and both are on the dangers of pleasure, in contrasted terms, but 'equally ridiculous in the eyes of true religion and philosophy (pp. 130-2)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., State with imprint. Cf. No. 9122 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and sides resulting in loss of plate number., Plate no. 58., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: reading desk.
Volume 2, page 95. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sailor looks at a soldier on duty on a fort by the sea, while a civilian couple look out through a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 95 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Title from item., Publisher from companion print: The royal cock-pitt., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Loans -- Emblems: loaves and fishes -- Money bags -- Expressions: 'out of place'., and Mounted to 38 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Dighton?
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Five women stand full-length most facing the viewer and exhibiting five styles of dress, as indicated in the words etched below each figure: A la Turk (Turkish) with a turban and oriental dress with Turkish trousers and bare breasts; A la Grec (Greek) with a high-waisted dress and feathered turban; A la Cité (Parisian) similar to the preceding woman but a different effect because the woman is short and balloon-shaped and wears a watch and seals from her bust; A la St. James, is shown with her back to the viewer, wearing a very large turban with two aigretts resembling stiffened brush of a fox; and, finally, A la St. Giles, a stout, busty woman in profile looking left, wearing a quilted petticoat and apron, arms crossed below her bare breasts
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
"The Duke of Bedford, a stalwart, handsome and smiling farmer, strides (left to right) across a newly ploughed field, scattering guineas from a pouch slung to his shoulder; on his back is a large sack inscribed '£'. As he sows the tips of bonnets-rouges and daggers sprout up; behind him (left) they progressively emerge more completely, and appear as little Jacobins, a raised dagger in each hand, crowding in close ranks towards the horizon, where they hail (or are smitten by) thunderbolts which dart from clouds in the upper left corner of the design and explode on reaching the ground. The soil is prepared by Fox, Sheridan, and Lauderdale: Fox's smiling face is the centre of a sun which issues from clouds and shines on Bedford. A bull (John Bull) is harnessed to a plough which is guided by Sheridan wearing a bonnet-rouge. Lauderdale (bare-headed) raises a whip to flog the weary bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bloomsbury farmer planting Bedfordshire wheat
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Farms: satire on Bedfordshire -- Ploughs -- Sowings -- Money: coins as seeds -- Symbols: bonnets rouges.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 3d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 20' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 44' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., State with title. Cf. No. 8949 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Boats -- Seasickness -- Food: ham -- Telescopes -- Sailors.
"Fox addresses a proletarian mob from some point apparently under the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. He stands behind a railing, and bends forward, hat in hand, clasping to his breast the 'Pewter-Pot Bill', saying, "Ever guardian of your most sacred rights, I have opposed the Pewter-Pot-Bill!!!" The crowd look up at him, cheering and shouting "a Mug, a Mug". They wear blue and buff favours. In the foreground are half-length figures of a little chimney-sweep with the name 'C. Fox Westminster' on the front of his cap (by the Act of 1788 these boys had to wear their master's name on their cap), and of a pot-boy, with a string of pewter pots slung to his shoulder; he holds up a foaming pot towards Fox inscribed 'Jack Slang - Tree of Liberty Petty France'. The same inscription is indicated on his pots. Beneath the title: 'Vox populi, - "We'll have a Mug! - a Mug! - a Mug! - Mayor of Garret' A quotation from Foote's comedy (1763)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: Vox populi, "We'll have a mug! A mug! A mug! Mayor of Garret., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: allusion to the 'Pewter pot bill' -- Elections -- Hustings -- Chimney-sweeps -- Literature: quotation from Samuel Foote's Mayor of Garrat -- Allusion to the election of the mayor of Garrat., and Mounted to 45 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Sir John Jervis sits in profile to the right at a table; his left hand clutches a pile of guineas, his right fist is raised to emphasize his words which are etched below the title: 'Phaedrus: - "The first Share is mine, because, I bore my part in killing the Prey; - the Second falls to my Lot, because I am King of the Beasts; - & if any one presumes to touch the Third!!!' The table is inscribed 'Unclaimed Dividends'; on it is a book: 'Hints on St Eustatia Prize Money'. On the carpeted floor lie torn papers: [1] 'Petition of Widow of ... . praying for payment of her Husbands dividend.' [2] 'Humble Petition of John lost a Leg in the Battle ...' [3] 'Starving for want of Just dividend,' [4] 'Petition of Major. . . who lost is [?] Beauty', and others which are illegible. On the wall which forms a background is an oval picture of 'Thieves dividing the Spoil', in the centre of four oblong prints: [1] Two bodies hanging from a gallows inscribed 'Peculation \ Tyburn'; [2] a map of 'St Vincents'; [3] 'Loaves & Fishes'; [4] a map of 'Martinico' showing 'Fort Bourbon'. Jervis wears admiral's uniform with a cocked hat and jack-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Prize money -- Pictures amplifying subject: reference to Cape St. Vincent -- Pictures amplifying subject: reference to the conquest of the French West Indies -- Pictures amplifying subject: reference to contributions levied in West Indies -- Obesity., and Mounted to 42 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
