Title from caption below image., Artist attribution from earlier print of which this design is a copy., Publication date based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and statement of responsibility erased from lower left corner of sheet., Design consists of nine figures arranged in two horizontal rows, each figure having a line of text etched above; a plate number is etched at the upper left corner of the lower row only., A reduced copy of the second half of no. 7230 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Watermark, partially trimmed: 1815.
Civic champions, or, The darling in danger and Darling in danger
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: "Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool, ere we can agree upon the first cut." Timon., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1815 -- John Bull -- Taxes: Property tax -- Nobodies -- Armour -- Reference to Americans., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 253.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1815, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Six couples, some awkwardly matched, dance with varying skill in a ballroom
Description:
Title etched below image, above a poem in letterpress, four stanzas in two columns., First line of the poem: Whilst Wellington, with patriot zeal, devotes himself from morn till night ..., Sheet trimmed mostly to plate mark along the top and sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Accidents, Skeletons, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Hourglasses
