"A stout elderly man (three-quarter length) sits astride across a chair, his arms folded on its back; he wears a hat and holds a cane; his head is turned in profile to the left, and is seen through the wide-open sash of a window in Boodle's, St. James's Street. On the wall behind (left) is a portrait of a horse: 'Yellow Filly'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title and imprint statement: *Vide: a d---'d good coca-tree pun., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Coffee houses: Cocoa Tree -- Clubs: Boodles -- Paintings: Yellow Filly -- Architectural details: sash window -- Furniture: ladderback chair -- Sir Frank Standish, 1746-1812.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Not dated in Krumbhaar., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Gout -- Beverages: port -- Glass decanter -- Food: candies -- Fish -- Domestic service: footmen -- Furniture: armchair -- Sofa -- Furnishings: patterned carpet.
Title from caption below image., Tentatively attributed to G. M. Woodward in unverified card catalog record., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., The Lewis Walpole Library Impression 1: Mounted on verso of Lot 18. Part of the Townland of Annaghcorbib. The estate of Mrs. Eliza Felicia West, situate in the County of Galway. Ordnance sheet 100 made by order of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, by Hodges & Smith, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin, [n.d.]., Companion print: A man and his wife!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: hats -- Shoes: pattens -- Pets: small poodle?, and Mounted to 38 x 31 cm.
"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain., "No. 10.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 29.2 x 23.7., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge, resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain., "No. 10.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
"A country man holding a heavy walking stick stares wide-eyed at a conjuror performing card tricks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner., Fourth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, p. 655., Three lines of text below image: This deviation from simple admiration is frequently put in practice at country fairs where some rustic inhabitant of the village gazes with astonishment at the hacnied[?] tricks of a juggler., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Rustics., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 29 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A country man holding a heavy walking stick stares wide-eyed at a conjuror performing card tricks
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink,, Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 4., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Magicians, Playing cards, Card tricks, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Later state by Fores of a print published by Thomas Harmar in 1788., Publication date in the British Museum database is Jan. 10, 1803., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires but an impression was acquired by the Museum afterwards., and Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Young women -- Military officers -- Adultery -- Domestic service: footman -- Food: roasted fowl -- Table settings -- Furniture: armchair and foot-stool -- Gout.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 10, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 54 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ten figures arranged in two rows depicting dwarfs or 'Lilliputians' dressed and acting in a variety of roles indicated by a respective caption: A Lilliputian actress; a Lilliputian candidate; a Lilliputian voter; a Lilliputian woman of fashion; a Lilliputian man of fashion; a Lilliputian dowager; a Lilliputian alderman; a Lilliputian vicar; a Lilliputian man of consequence; a Lilliputian informer!!
Description:
Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., Date supplied by cataloger., and Three sheets of paper pasted on a mount in two rows forming one coherent design.
