Title from item., "Price 6d."--Lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Dueling: mock duel with canes -- Swords -- Guns: pistols -- Toupée and queue wigs -- Expressions of speech: fag (i.e., toil) -- Expressions of speech: gig (i.e., fool) -- Male dress, 1771-- Macaronies -- Gallows -- Surgeons -- Canes -- Theatre -- Allusion to Flanders -- Riots.
Publisher:
Sold by Mrs. Sledge next Southhampton Strt, Covent Garden, & I. Swan in the Strand
From Tim Bobbin [pseudonym of John Collier, "Human Passions Delineated": a Dean is shown bribing the Lord to grant him the preferment to a living that is about to become vacant
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '42' in upper right corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Documents: patent rolls and grants -- Lighting: wall sconces with mirror -- Pictures -- William Henry Nassau de Zulestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, 1717-1781 -- Allusion to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806 -- Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, 1713-1792 -- Allusion to William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1705-1793 -- Allusion to Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington, 1747-1786 -- Allusion to George Fox-Lane, Baron Bingley, 1696?-1773 -- Allusion to Jeremiah Dyson, 1772-1776.
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The batchelor by William Congreve., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basins (Containers)., Bedrooms, Chairs, Clothes chests, Gout, Interiors, Medical equipment & supplies, Men, Older people, Pitchers, and Women domestics
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns, one on each side of title: Behold this wretch! A fop at sixty two, a true conceited, ugly, worn out beau ..., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Old men -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Domestic service: valet -- Furniture: hanging bookcase -- Dressing table -- Mirror stand -- Cosmetics -- Wigs: toupée wig with queue -- Pictures amplifying subject: Narcissus admiring his own image in the stream -- Clocks -- Emblems: window curtain tassel as a fool's cap., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Companion print: A macaroni family returning from church, also published in the Macaroni and theatrical magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4822., Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine. London : John Williams, April 1773, p. 323., and Temporary local subject terms: Dress: child's dress, 1773 -- Newspapers: London Gazette -- Table setting: breakfast -- Domestic service: black page -- Domestic service: footmen -- Male dress: nightcaps -- Male dress: dressing gown.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Cats, Dandies, British, Dogs, Monkeys, Parrots, Squirrels, and Wigs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 63. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Obadiah (left) mounted on the coach-horse at full gallop attempts to pull up his horse, leaning back in the saddle, his cap in his right hand. On the ground is Dr. Slop's pony. Behind the pony on the right. Dr. Slop lies on his back; a spotted dog prances over him. The doctor lies under a sign-post terminating in a hand pointing "To Shandy Hall". Behind the coach-horse, which is wearing blinkers, is the angle of a high garden wall, in the distance (right) is a church spire among trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: "When Obadiah & his coach horse turn'd the corner rapid, furious, pop, full upon him ..." Vide vol. 1st, Tristram Shandy., One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Physicians -- Coach-horse -- Male costume: Riding hats., and Mounted on page 63 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
An elderly man reclining on a settee, with his gouty leg supported on a foot stool, looks at two women in capes and hats and a darkish man behind them, probably his servant, who gathered expecting his imminent demise. A stout doctor is taking his pulse
Description:
Title from item., Probably published by Darly. Cf. Companion print: The pleasures of matrimony., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Diseases: gout -- Trades: physicians -- Crutches.
A family of four sit a round table. The father appears to be instructing the little boy standing at his knee with an open book. The mother plays with her toddler daughter who is seated on the table. A battledore and shuttlecock lie on the floor
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from that of the companion print: The pleasures of matrimony., Publisher identified from address in imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Families -- Children -- Games: battledore and shuttlecock.
Title from item., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 May 1773., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London, v. 42 (1773), p. 160., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Spain as bear-leader -- France as a fiddler -- Britain as a dancing bear -- Alliances.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Guines, Adrien Louis de Bonnières de Souastre, Duc de, 1735-1806
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from street address., One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day., Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.1 x 31.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
