"A ragged girl with a basket of mackerel confronts a woman at the front door of a respectable house; at their feet a dog and cat snarl at each other; lower right, the shadow of two unseen men watching the scene; in the background, a shop sign showing the traditional image of 'A man loaded with mischief'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Maquereaux, maquereaux monsieur, madame en voulez vous des maquereaux
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Eighth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "8" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors, Fishmongers, Baskets, Dogs, and Cats
"Two women with flat baskets of oysters on their heads, walking into the left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Excellentes huitres et bonnes huitres à étuver
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Tenth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "10" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors, Baskets, Fishmongers, and Staffs (Sticks)
Manner of Robin Hood's rescuing a young lady from an old knight, and restorig her to Allen-a-Dale her former love
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Come listen to me, you gallants so free". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 32. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Caption title., Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "When Robin Hood in the green wood stood,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "All gentlemen and yeomen good,," [sic]., Printed in four columns with the title and four woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by lines of ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 34. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by L. How, in Petticoat-lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Fencing, Ballads, English, Brigands and robbers, Swordplay, Broadsides, Bows (Archery)., Arrows, Archery, Targets (Sports)., Daggers & swords, Spears, and Shields
Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Published / Created:
[before 1765]
Call Number:
765.00.00.98+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man on horseback riding to left and pointing ahead of him with his whip, accompanied by a man on foot who carries a gun and gestures with his hat at a globe, palette and dividers on the ground in the foreground; classical ruins and a large building in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
See Europe here! for Arms, and Arts renowned
Description:
Title from the first line of verse below image., Printmaker from Chaloner Smith., Before 1765 (see British Museum online catalogue)., Verse continue: ... Where still they flourish on th' improving plan. If other clines with greater wealth abound, Europe's the Eden of accomplish'd Man., See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World": "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street"., One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Asia, America, and Africa., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides; trimmed within plate mark at bottom edge.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Smoke the boot! A political, satirical and hieroglyphical Scotch dialogue
Description:
Title from item., Imprint, publication date and price from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint and price., "Price 6d.", An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Bute by a boot, 'saw' in 'Sawney' by a hand saw, 'son' in 'McPharson' by sun, Jockey by a figure of a jockey, 'Cloud' in 'McCloud' by clouds., Temporary local subject terms: Sawney McPharson -- Jockey McCloud -- Jockies -- Battles: allusion to Cape Breton -- Battles: allusion to Preston Pans -- Battles: allusion to Quebec -- Battles: allusion to Falkirk -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Rebellions: allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745 -- Literature: Sawney and Jockey in The prophecy of famine by Charles Churchill -- Allusion to Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-1788 -- Allusion to George III -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 27 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Phillips at Vandyke's Head in Portugal Street near Lincolns Inn
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Haymarket -- Alcohol: reference to gin -- Devil -- Nicknames: Squintum (George Whitefield)., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Titles from images., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "5"., With: Angular carrics / MDarly invt. 1762. Numbered: '6'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
