Six designs, arranged in two rows, each showing a mother, father, and child from different cultures. The figures wear their native dress and appear in front of landscapes, buildings, and animals found in their region of the world
Alternative Title:
Six national figures
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Africans, Chinese, English, Khoekhoe, Native American, and Sami (European people)
"Popular print, satire, after print published by Laurie & Whittle in 1794 (British Museum satires no. 8596): five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his g...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Tables, Pipes (Smoking), and Sadness
A satire on London hunters: A hare crouching in long grass beside an old tree at left while a young man runs forward dragging his gun, and holding out his hat to throw it over the animal. Two dogs follow behind him and a second man squats down with hi...
A young huntsmen with a barnyard rooster hanging from his waist, negligently uses a ramrod. His pot-bellied companion leans against a fence, voraciously gnawing a cold chicken, a bottle of 'Porter' in front of him. Near him lies a dead cat. The men ar...
Two 'cits' are shown out for a day's sport in the countryside. One is rather thin and fashionably dressed, while the other is an older, fat John Bull type. The younger man leaps a low fence, firing his rifle at a flight of birds, his clipped poodle le...
A family of three on horseback riding down a country road, seen from behind with the man in the centre and flanked by the two women in a baskets, in plain, house in the left middle distance
A gentleman is shown half-length in profile to the right, pressing a walking stick to his chin and holding his hat under his arm; he stands in a disconsolate manner at table on the right on which are set tankard lettered "small beer" and paper "W. Dav...
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladd...
Alternative Title:
Sleight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded and Ladys head unloaded
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Apple orchards, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, Monkeys, and Wigs
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round sn...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round sn...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
