George III at table with the queen and seated between Lord and Lady Petre with nine other persons while a tall monk stands on the left saying grace. A crucifix and picture of a saint on the wall mark this as an anti-Catholic satire occasioned by the King's visit to Lord Petre in October of 1778 after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act
Alternative Title:
Peep at Lord Peter's
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Also attributed to Gillray.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Petre, Robert Edward Petre, Baron, 1742-1801
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism, Prayer, Monks, Dining tables, and Clothing & dress
Book illustration set within a decorative frame, a depiction in an outdoor setting with trees of four Siberian women and one man shown seated or standing in native attire
Description:
Title from item., Lettered within top of frame: Engraved for Middleton's Complete system of geography., and Imprint from that of book.
Publisher:
J. Cooke
Subject (Geographic):
Siberia (Russia), Russia (Federation), and Siberia.
"Portrait as a young girl, seated whole-length and slightly to left in garden looking at flowers in vase at left, wearing pale bonnet and dark cape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 42 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, and at No. 52, Strand and Chez les Freres Torre, marchands d'estampes
A man beats another man with a walking stick to the amusement of bystanders, who include a fishwife, a milkmaid, a chimney-sweep's boy, etc. A lengthy inscription in a scroll in the upper left corner begins: "Ha ha ha I can't help laughing ..."
Alternative Title:
Laugh and grow fat
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Read, Richard, approximately 1745-approximately 1800, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 April 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Anne Brown (later Cargill) as the character Louisa from Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna'; half-length, directed and looking three-quarters to right, smiling and lifting from her face with her left hand a voluminous veil, which covers her head and is draped about her shoulders and bosom; her right hand raised in front of her, with forefinger up; wearing low-necked dress with slashed sleeves, the cuffs trimmed with pointed lace, hair worn high; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Laid in after page 192 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 11, 1778, by J. Walker, No. 13, Parliament Street
Subject (Name):
Cargill, Ann, 1760?-1784, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
A stout woman in a floral print dress and cap stands with her back to the viewer looking at her reflection in the mirror. Two portraits of women hang on the wall on either side of the mirror, beneath which stands a marble topped console table
Description:
Title from item., Signed by engraver in lower left of image: HI, [i.e. Hen. Ibb.?], MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., Trimmed within plate mark., and Inlaid to 39 x 27 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Charlotte C., (on the left and numbered 31), and her alleged lover on the right, Alexander Wedderburn (numbered 32).
Alternative Title:
Admirable advocate
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified in British Museum catalogue., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1778 p. 569., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., with p. 569-574 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss D., the daughter of a Surrey farmer (on the left and numbered 34), and her alleged lover on the right, George James, Earl of Cholmondeley, (numbered 35).
Alternative Title:
Whimsical lover
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 p. 625., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 22 x 26 cm, with pages 625-628 of Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827.
A very fat and sour-looking woman stands facing right, in an outdoor setting with trees in the distance. She is dressed in a fancy striped dress, her mountain of curly hair topped by an elaborate bonnet with ribbons and bows
Description:
Title from item., Signed (by engraver?) in lower left of image: HI, i.e. Hen. Ibb.?, Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: V. 2, 63.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss L., (on the left and numbered 10), and her alleged lover on the right, Viscount Petersham, later Earl of Harrington (numbered 11).
Alternative Title:
Martial lover
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1778 p. 177., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., with pages 177-180 of Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
