Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
Alternative Title:
Churching a lady
Description:
Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
"A couple dance in an assembly-room; the man, active and dishevelled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the background are two other couples. A chandelier and a corner of the musicians' gallery with a man blowing a French horn complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing -- Dances: waltz -- Interiors: ballroom -- Lighting: chandelier -- Architectural details: musicians' gallery -- Obesity -- Musical instruments: French horn., and Window mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A man dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 13' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., A copy in reverse of the print with the same title engraved and published by Thomas Bakewell in 1737?, and Temporary local subject terms: Yawning -- Night cap.
Publisher:
Pub Feby. 11, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A copy in reverse of the second state of William Hogarth's A Chorus of Singers which was first etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation". A scene with seventeen men and boys rehearsing, in this case, "An Ode for New Years Day" rather than the oratorio "Judith"; sheets of music are lettered "Sicilian Sisters, tuneful nine".
Description:
Title from Paulson., Date from British Museum catalogue: late 18th century., Verses below image: Thy verses, Colley, by no muse inspir'd, When set to musick, justly are admir'd. No wonder such should be the consequence; For tuneful sounds oft suit with want of sense., and On page 64 in volume 1. With ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above group of two prints: Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith. See Nichols's Book, 3d, edit. p. 202. With another note in pencil in Steevens's handabove: Copy.
Title devised by curator., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 7.8 x 5 cm, on sheet 9.2 x 6.2 cm., and On leaf 166 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"A thin officer in profile to the left stands on a flagged pavement, his feet splayed outwards, right hand on hip, holding one glove in his (gloved) left hand. He wears an enormous busby and sabre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: 1st Grenadier Guards
Publisher:
1800. Publish'd May 19th by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title devised by cataloger., Place of publication based on sitter's known place of activity., Date of publication based on year sitter would be of age for portrait., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
