A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a ...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a ...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is bein...
Description:
Title from captions below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
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1
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"A gathering of members of the Jockey Club meeting in a large room lined with paintings of horses and jockeys. In the centre, the mass of the congregation consisting of jockeys, owners and betting agents, stand talking whilst a board game takes place ...
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"A barrister, haggard and exhausted, yawns over a 'Brief', reclining in an arm-chair, extending his bare legs to the fire (right) where a coffee-pot stands. Beside him is a 'Bill of Costs'. Evidence of overnight dissipation are a (Turkish) masquerade ...
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"A plebeian crowd, much caricatured, cheers the majestic ascent of a balloon. On the right is part of an old-fashioned gabled building with a large projecting sign, 'Mermaid': a mermaid emerges from the sea holding up a comb and a wine-bottle. Two men...
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1
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still image
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A actor in a costume that includes a large bow at his waist, a cape, and a hat with large plumes demonstrates six positions to convey dramatic emotion, each of the six appear in separate boxes with captions
Alternative Title:
Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
Subject (Topic):
Movement (Acting), Study and teaching, and Costumes
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1
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still image
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"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is bein...
Description:
Title from captions below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
On the left under the title "England" a bear sits at a table enjoying a hearty meal of roast beef and plum pudding while across from him sits a frog in a French uniform with a sword at his waist, a plate of only sauce before him and two turnips to the...
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Sold by [...]
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Bears, Eating & drinking, Frogs, National emblems, British, and French
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed...
"A young man, thin, dark-haired, and sallow, leans back in his chair smoking a hookah: the long coiled tube is attached to a receptacle supporting a small brazier at which an Indian servant (right), crouching on the floor, is blowing; he wears breeche...
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Dogs, Eyeglasses, Fishing, and Pipes (Smoking)
A dinner of mostly elderly men has dissolved into a brawl with wigs flying in every direction as they pummel each other with their fists or any tool at hand. In the center a man crawls on his hands and knees, blood pouring from both nostrils, his oppo...
"The 'Q' of the title is a letter formed of acanthus scrolls surrounding the head in profile to the left of the Duke of Queensberry. The head, in which the right eyelid is visible, appears to be copied and enlarged from that in Gillray's 'Push-Pin' (B...
Description:
Title from text and design contained within image. The 'Q' is formed from ancathus scrolls arranged around the figure's head; see British Museum catalogue.
"Heading to a moral tale, 'By the late Dr. Lyon', etched in two columns. A goose approaches the edge of a pond (left) carrying a struggling fox which it holds by the neck. There is a realistic landscape background with a substantial village inn in the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 22d., 1811 by Wm. Holland, no. 11 Cockspur St.
"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right i...
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1
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Abstract:
A rotund clergyman stands (center) in his pulpit preaching from a book set on a plush pillow while the congregation sleeps below him. All the figures are highly caricatured except for a pretty young woman in the right foreground and a young man who i...
"Two dark-complexioned money-lenders, Eurasians or Portuguese, sit facing each other at a round table. One (left), with a cane under his arm, appears to be a visitor; he regards his vis-à-vis with a fixed and cunning grin, holding out a bill or chequ...
Alternative Title:
Thirty-six percent discount at Calcutta and 36 per cent discount at Calcutta
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1803 by Willm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street
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1
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still image
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"Scene in a dance-room, which is roughly panelled, has a low platform across one end, and a small gallery (right) with a fiddler and a man blowing a French horn; it is lit by a hanging chandelier. In the centre two men face each other in boxing attitu...
Alternative Title:
Kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "z" in "breeze" is etched backwards.
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1
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"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from hea...
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1
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Abstract:
"The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of ar...
Alternative Title:
French dentist showing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
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1
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still image
Abstract:
"A crowd of elderly Fellows in cap and gown issue from the Gothic doorway of the (?) chapel (left) and turn to the left, to walk in back view under an archway below a mullioned window, towards a quadrangle which is indicated only by the windows of the...
Alternative Title:
Bacon faced fellows of Brazenose, broke loose
Description:
Title etched below image; letter "z" in "Brazen" is etched beackwards.
"A very stout elderly man in old-fashioned dress holds on his knee a slim and elegant courtesan, who holds out her dress to receive the guineas which he pours into her lap. Beside them (right) is a table laid with knife, fork, and lamb chop (?)."--Bri...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1811 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur St.
"The Ministry defend 'The Citadel of Office' behind a high stone wall against different Opposition groups. The chief defence is by the tiny Perceval who fires a cannon from whose muzzle issue three heads intended for Wellesley, Ryder, and Melville. In...
Alternative Title:
Which has it?
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published for the Scourge, March 1st, 1811, by M. Jones, 5 Newgate Stt
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Romilly, Samuel, 1757-1818, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
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1
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"Scene in the vaulted ante-room of a dungeon. The turnkey, keys in hand, accepts with wary enjoyment the blandishments of a pretty young woman, whose interest is clearly in the fate of a handsome youth seen through the bars above a padlocked barrier o...
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"An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, &c. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on a tr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, and Skeletons
"Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore (right) where a man-of-war is at anchor. All are in difficulties. A fourth is on his hands and knees on the extreme left; he looks up to say: "Mind what you are at Messmates for I am upset, and the frigate I...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 16, 1811 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
"Three pretty young nuns stand behind a widely spaced iron grille; one of them sells netted silk purses to a handsome young British officer in full regimentals who gazes fixedly at them. Two return his gaze. Behind and on the extreme left, an ugly old...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Below the title: " To pack up her tatters and follow the Drum. Soldiers and their wives walk in single file across a stream under trees. All except for the only officer are good-looking. The procession moves irregularly from right to left, receding i...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson April 1, 1811 No. 1. St. James St. Adelphi
"A farmer (John Bull) and his family gape in amazement at the arrangements for the Regency fête on 19 June. The narrow table extends across the design receding from left to right, the cloth hanging over the seats of chairs in the foreground. The famo...
"The nurse, a respectable-looking woman wearing a cap and apron, stands in profile to the right beside an open coffin placed on trestles; she rests her left hand on a shrouded protuberance. In her right is a glass filled from a bottle of 'Gin' on a ta...
Alternative Title:
Sic transit gloria city and Old nurse's meditation
Description:
Title from caption below image; "mundi" scored through and replaced by "city."
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1
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still image
Abstract:
"A sailor with a hideously carbuncled face lies in a hammock wearing a striped shirt and night-cap. Beside him is his sea-chest, the open lid inscribed 'Sea Stock', from which he has taken a bottle of 'Grogg'. He shakes his fist at an old-fashioned do...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, opposite Bow Church, London
"Lovegrove as Jeremiah Babble stands hat in hand before a solid rail, behind which is a grotesquely fat woman, dressed in her best, with a rope round her neck, at whom he points. Three other men stand by, one with a hand on Lovegrove's shoulder, the o...
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th August 1811 by Whittle and Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
Two figures face each other made of tools, implements, &c. On the left a carpenter, very thin and erect, is composed of a straw tool-bag, containing saw, plane, &c., supported on a pair of compasses for legs. The head is a mallet on which is a glue-po...
"Heading to (printed) verses 'Sung, with great Applause, by Mr. Henry Johnston, in Dublin, Cork, &c. &c.' A pedlar with a wooden leg stands at a street corner, singing, a bottle of 'Irish Whisky' in his left hand, another bottle in his coat-pocket. Hi...
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published 2nd Septr., 1811 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Strt., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Bakers, Barbershops, Peddlers, British, Peg legs, Puppets, and Tailors
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strapping young courtesan holds against her neck a ladder up which an elderly naval officer, less than half her height, begins to climb, looking up avidly. He holds a telescope, and wears a ribbon inscribed 'Death or Victory'. From her feathered ha...
"A grotesquely fat woman, much decolletee, sits at a piano (left) singing and playing, her left foot on the pedal. With upturned eyes and gaping mouth she sings: "Just like love ..." [three times]. Her music book is open at: 'Just like Love a Favorite...
"An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head...
A grotesque-looking cook with a huge nose and a wart-covered head uses a rolling pin to roll out dough on a table with his knobby hands as mucus drips from his nose and drool streams from his gapping mouth. Behind him, a pretty maid leans against his...
"A close-up view of the heads of a man and woman asleep in bed, with their arms round each other. They have grotesquely long and turned-up noses. Similar in character to British Museum satires nos. 11128-30."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Octob. 1811 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur St.
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A crowd watches three country girls who race (left to right) barefoot and lightly clad; a dog has tripped up a fourth. A dog runs too, with some object tied to its tail. Many of the crowd are in violent action, fighting or falling. Spectators watch f...
"Three old men with grotesque and hideously carbuncled faces look into a cask of 'Double Rectified Spirits', streaming copiously from nose and mouth. Their heads and shoulders almost fill the design. On the left is a still with a pipe leading into the...
"One of a set, see Nos. 11785-7 and 11789-91; cf. Nos. 11629, &c., 11792, 12406. Villagers play quoits outside a gabled, thatched, and dilapidated inn, the sign: 'Asses Milk sold here' and 'Dirty Dick'. The quoits lie round a peg in the right foregrou...
"A portrait-painter painting a family group of a man and wife and their little boy. The group (right) is raised on a low semicircular platform, the couple sit on a high-backed settee without arms, the little boy on a stool in front of his mother. The ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' materials, Doves, Easels, Families, Group portraits, Obesity, Wigs, and Yawning
"Portrait seated almost whole-length slightly to left and reading at table, head turned to face right; wearing dark suit, frill and ruffles and his hair powdered and curled."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of similar composit...
"Portrait; half length, seated to left; elbow resting on ledge; wearing hat and cloak tied around neck; vignette; after J Jackson."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Dec. 21, 1811, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right i...
Alternative Title:
Crabbed fellow's taught to caper on the slack rope
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 28, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"A fat elderly woman walks (left to right) over rough cobbles, in the teeth of a strong wind against a deluge of rain; her contour is global and fills the greater part of the design. She holds a lighted lantern and clutches a bottle of cordial and a b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in a dance-room, which is roughly panelled, has a low platform across one end, and a small gallery (right) with a fiddler and a man blowing a French horn; it is lit by a hanging chandelier. In the centre two men face each other in boxing attitu...
Alternative Title:
Kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "z" in "breeze" is etched backwards.
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from hea...
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A crowd of elderly Fellows in cap and gown issue from the Gothic doorway of the (?) chapel (left) and turn to the left, to walk in back view under an archway below a mullioned window, towards a quadrangle which is indicated only by the windows of the...
Alternative Title:
Bacon faced fellows of Brazenose, broke loose
Description:
Title etched below image; letter "z" in "Brazen" is etched beackwards.
"The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of ar...
Alternative Title:
French dentist showing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Dubois de Chémant, Nicolas, 1753-1824
Subject (Topic):
Dentures, Dentistry, Smiling, Hand lenses, and Signs (Notices)
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in the vaulted ante-room of a dungeon. The turnkey, keys in hand, accepts with wary enjoyment the blandishments of a pretty young woman, whose interest is clearly in the fate of a handsome youth seen through the bars above a padlocked barrier o...
"An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, &c. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on a tr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, and Skeletons
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore (right) where a man-of-war is at anchor. All are in difficulties. A fourth is on his hands and knees on the extreme left; he looks up to say: "Mind what you are at Messmates for I am upset, and the frigate I...
"A barrister, haggard and exhausted, yawns over a 'Brief', reclining in an arm-chair, extending his bare legs to the fire (right) where a coffee-pot stands. Beside him is a 'Bill of Costs'. Evidence of overnight dissipation are a (Turkish) masquerade ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"A handsome young courtesan sits by the fire, her legs crossed indecorously, her breast bare; she has a decanter at her elbow, and holds a glass of wine. Standing on each side of her are her jailor, holding a bunch of keys, and a hideous old woman; bo...
Alternative Title:
Waiting for Jew bail
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Three pretty young nuns stand behind a widely spaced iron grille; one of them sells netted silk purses to a handsome young British officer in full regimentals who gazes fixedly at them. Two return his gaze. Behind and on the extreme left, an ugly old...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"The interior of a barber's shop, a ramshackle room with a raftered ceiling. An elderly military officer, seated in the middle of the room between the barber and his wife, causes general dismay; he points to a gash on his cheek and shakes his fist at ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene by a roadside pond opposite a picturesque inn (right). A few country-people watch a distressed cat in a bowl which floats precariously. An angry old woman strides into the water to rescue the animal, but is restrained by a friend. Other spectat...
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (? a maidservant with two young ...
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man and woman sleep in a rough wooden bed, heads thrown back so that their nostrils face the spectator. Bare feet projecting from the bed-clothes attract a rat. A cat lies on a chair in the disordered room. An antique musket and broadsword hang hor...
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two figures in a pleasant undulating landscape with trees. A lean elderly man (resembling Dr. Syntax), rides across grass with a smile of anticipation towards a country girl seated on the ground under a tree. She stares fixedly at him. Two dogs scamp...
"Masqueraders stand closely grouped. A centre figure is an obese, aged, and capering Punch, playing a guitar. Two women are prominent, both are in profile to the left, and wear small masks which frame their eyes. One holds a wand and a book inscribed ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 30th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strapping young courtesan holds against her neck a ladder up which an elderly naval officer, less than half her height, begins to climb, looking up avidly. He holds a telescope, and wears a ribbon inscribed 'Death or Victory'. From her feathered ha...
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head...
Alternative Title:
Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck and Looking at the comet till you get a crick in the neck
"Villagers play quoits outside a gabled, thatched, and dilapidated inn, the sign: 'Asses Milk sold here' and 'Dirty Dick'. The quoits lie round a peg in the right foreground watched by a bull-dog. One man is about to throw. There is norie of the rusti...
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Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A pretty young woman swings high above the heads of the spectators, seated on a rope hung between two tall trees. A similar girl, and a young man who embraces her, pull at a rope which works the swing. An elderly parson of Syntax type (see British Mu...
