A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Title etched below image., Plate from: The antiquarian repertory. London : Printed for the proprietors, and sold by Francis Blyth ... and T. Evans ..., 1775, v. 1, opposite page 89., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 74 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Facing right, a full-length pot-bellied Andrew Foulis holds book entitled (in Greek characters) Homer
Alternative Title:
A. Foulis and Celebrated printer at Glasgow
Description:
Title etched below image item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Second of three plates on leaf 103.
publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775.
Call Number:
775.06.15.01 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple stand side by side before a rectangular tomb. The male figure is a skeleton wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and a sword; the lady wears a cloak. The tomb is decorated with the skull and crossbones and inscribed with the words "Requiescas in pace'. They stand on a road which leads to a Palladian portico, decorated with a baron's coronet. Above the couple a cupid hides his face in his hands as he turns away
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Gillray in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Also attributed to "Miss Hartley, daughter of Dr. Hartley" by Horace Walpole in his Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality., Inscribed below image in two rows, a quote from Lord Hervey's Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood: ... no smiles for us the God head wears! His torch inverted & his face in tears!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, on laid paper ; sheet 234 x 204 mm.
"Satire: a scene outside an inn, the 'Old Noted Gin and Purl House. By Chris. Catch-Penny', with a fishwife on the left squaring up to a Frenchman, while others look on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poll Dab a match for the Frenchman
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Fishwomen -- Frenchmen -- Public houses, exteriors -- Signs -- Signboards -- "The Fighting Cock" -- Publicans -- Gin -- Purl -- Billingsgate -- Male wigs: bag -- Poll Dab -- Chequers.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowels, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Half length portrait of a long-haired lanky man in military coat and ruffled shirt facing right, wearing enormously tall pointed hat bearing the initials G[R] on the front
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Impression damaged with offset from another print.
Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below text., Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London....", Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it., At bottom of plate: B--b--y., Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue., and Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a red military coat, sword, and feathered tricorne hat, has before him a carafe and glass of wine together with a few mushrooms and onions. On the wall behind the bear is a picture of two overweight pugilists, and behind the rat two duelists with rapiers
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding and France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Second of two plates on leaf 49., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
