Depicts a semi-nude seated female figure holding a caduceus before whom dance three putti, while two putti in the air above approach bearing a basket and grape vine. Within an oval border of olive and oak leaves resting on a pedestal containing the text
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Caduceus, Children dancing, Cornucopias, and Social life and customs
"An enormous pair of breeches reaching from the head to the feet of the wearer, and forming his (or her) sole visible garment. A face in profile to the right. appears through an unbuttoned aperture; on the wearer's head is a ducal coronet surmounted by large ostrich-feathers. The tiny high-heeled shoes suggest that the wearer is a woman."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion-print to British Museum Satires No. 5315, where the wearer of a petticoat appears to be a man. They are perhaps caricatures of a ducal pair where the husband was dominated by an overbearing wife, in which case she would appear to be Jane Maxwell (1749?-1812), wife of the 4th Duke of Gordon. The profile makes this not unlikely."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and On same sheet: The petticoat at the fieri maschareta. [London] : Pub. Apr. 25, 1775, by MDarly, 39 Strand, [25 April 1775].
"Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind; to the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image. and For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Verse begins: "Come all that love to be merry,", In four columns, with the title and illustrations above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments; the imprint is below the last two columns., Imprint below the third and fourth columns., Date conjectural., Mounted on leaf 22. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Women, Social conditions, Men, Moral and ethical aspects, and Sex
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 17th 1775.
Call Number:
775.09.17.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Danger and folly of going to law and Law is a bottomless pit
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, and three small images in form of vignettes on each side of the sheet., Possibly a 2nd state, with title of the 1733 edition of the rectangular image at top etched in the enter of that image. Cf. The danger and folly of goeing to law / George Davise inv. ; R. Parr sculp. [London], 1740, and Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733., Central upper panel is a later state of Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Folded and mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Verse - "Is there never a man in all Scotland,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by plain rules., Mounted on leaf 61. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Armstrong, John, d. 1528
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, War, Battle casualties, Soldiers, Armies, and History
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "Here you may see the turns of fate,", In five columns with the title above the first three and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Imprint below fifth column., Mounted on leaf 77. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Lady with elaborate headdress sitting in chair in front of a sofa holds an open book (The whole duty of man) in her left hand and pulls up her skirts with the right, while a kneeling man in a pigtail wig and wearing a sword examines her left foot as it rests on a footstool. In his right hand he holds her shoe, his tools on the floor next to him, his hat behind
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark at top edge., and First (?) state of no. 4638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1 by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Couples, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Feet, Sofas, and Hairstyles
