Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves; after Richardson after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title in scratched letters below image., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, statements of responsibility, and publication line re-etched, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.308., Engraved after a copy by Richardson, as indicated by the text "from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane" on published state of the plate. The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Year of publication from imprint statement on published state: Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on page 144 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13., Note in pencil beside image, on mounting sheet: This is a copy, the original has sold for 12 guineas; she is wrong plac'd here., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st by J. Thane
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 110 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., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in brown ink below title: The original, which was Richardson's, is now at Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Exeter, Frances Brydges, Countess of, 1580-1663, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of a young man, half-length, with elbow leaning on the back of a chair placed in front of him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 1/4 i. by 1 f. 7 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 39 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Captain of banditti.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Trade card of Fraser, scientific instrument maker, with portrait of the astronomer James Ferguson at top, bust, slightly to left, in oval with garland and ribbon, scientific instruments on pedestal below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fraser, optical and mathematical instrument maker at Fergusons Head ... and James Ferguson
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1115.1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
William Fraser
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776,
Subject (Topic):
Scientific apparatus and instruments industry and Scientific equipment
Profile head of a woman facing right with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper three quarters of the plate. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with fruits, including melons, pears, and grapes, with, a basket of peaches at the summit, and others of plums and raspberries
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and by the artist [?] [Miss] Bath on the right., and Numbered in plate at top: 17, V.2.
Title from caption below image., Text above image: Engraved for Russel's History of England., Publisher and date of publication from that of the volume., and Plate from: A new and authentic history of England ... / by William Augustus Russel, Esq. London : Printed for J. Cooke, 1777.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[26 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on gossiping women; two women, whole length in profile, fashionably dressed in enormous bonnets and carrying large fur muffs, encounter each other beside a lake."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 6, V.2.
In an oval, a half-length portrait of James Poro (born Giacomo Poro), shown with his shirt open to reveal his conjoined twin growing out of his stomach, named Matthew or Matteo. They were born in Genoa, Italy. The second small body could function almost normally. If you hurt him, he would cry, and he could move a little bit. Both James and Matteo were baptized
Description:
Title etched on base in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., One line of text following subtitle: (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII, p. 424)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: Poro, James and Matthew, 1686-1714.