Title from item., Companion print to his "Young ladies" published also in 1798., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Furniture: garden bench -- Literature: Chesterfield, Philip Dorner Stanhope, Letters -- Quizzing glasses -- Male dress: spencer., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
"Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Ode to Beauty'. Beside her sits a dog clipped in the French manner. The others stand facing her, one closing her eyes and clasping her hands, the other, who holds a fan, leers at her companion. These two wear nosegays. All have high-waisted dress with sashes. The reader wears a straw hat tied on with a scarf. Behind her is a tree on whose trunk letters are carved: 'W' and 'I C' (for the artists). In the background (left) is the corner of a house inscribed 'Young Ladies Genteely Boarded & Educated' by A Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from manuscript date added in contemporary hand in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with artist's and printmaker's names partially erased from plate, and without imprint. Cf .No. 8749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Companion print to: Young Gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boarding schools, Dogs, Girls, Jewelry, Older people, and Women
A membership card for a trade union with a female figure with an anchor on her left and a shield with three calibers on the right, standing under a broken pediment supported by two Corinthian columns and surmounted by a pineapple
Alternative Title:
Be permanent to protect & not combin'd to injure and Be permanent to protect and not combined to injure
Description:
Title from dealer's description; alternative title from motto etched within image., Date etched in bottom of image., and "Div--" etched in upper left and "No." etched in upper right.
Two fashionably dressed women flee a charging bull; one woman lies face down in the grass of Hyde Park as gentlemen and the bull's owner try to subdue the animal with sticks
Description:
Title and imprint supplied in a contemporary hand on mounting below image., Signed Lepagelet in image who was active in Paris, so ms. note seems questionable., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.