Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames probably of 1st Earl Charlemont and a "watchmaker's daughter."
Alternative Title:
Altamont
Description:
Titles from text below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1785, page 269., and Images numbered 'No. XVI' and 'No. XVII".
Volume 2, page 27. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"To right, a soldier and a young woman embracing each other; to extreme right, a woman seated, facing back; to left, a soldier on a horse, in profile to left, holding another horse's bridle; in a landscape; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below title: Hark! may heaven defend thee, Hark! the drum commands, Honour I attend thee, Love I kiss thy hands. May guardian angels watch thee, And conquest on thee wait; One kiss and then I give thee up, alas poor Kate. Vide the Tobacco Box., Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Right Honble. the Countess of Euston, this print from an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by Her Ladyships obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., The included verses are perhaps part of a longer ballad, the author of which is unidentified., and Mounted on page 27 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23d, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
"Portrait; standing half-length in an oval in profile left, with a lyre hanging from a tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "when she sung sweet notes, like dropping honey, she did shed ..." Spencer's Fairy Queen., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 49 (leaf numbered '102' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 1, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 Strand
The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Couples, Doves, Kissing, and Older people
Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
"A companion print to BMSat 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. BMSat 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with imprint statement altered and with much of the aquatint worn from the plate. For the earlier state published by Hannah Humphrey, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 785.02.25.01+., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: armchairs -- Stools -- Mirrors -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: dark lantern -- Emblems: dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North -- Spiders -- Sewing -- Poverty., and Impression from a worn plate; beginning of imprint statement is lightly printed and illegible.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Verso of leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6791. Fox, North, and Burke in a poverty-stricken room: North (left), seated in a low arm-chair, leans back yawning, arms above his head, legs stretched out. On the wall above his head hangs a broken pair of bellows, emblem of his Borean blast. Burke, (right), very thin, seated on a three-legged stool, is mending the breeches which he has taken off. Behind his head is a spider in the centre of a cobweb. Between and behind them stands Fox, in the attitude of an orator, right arm raised, rehearsing a speech and regarding himself in a cracked mirror (right) which reflects his anxious and gloomy expression. Above his head a dark lantern, emblem of a conspirator, hangs on the wall (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6784, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Publication date of 25 April 1785 supplied by the British Museum catalogue for an impression lacking the imprint statement; this date apparently based on that of the companion print entitled: Evening consolation., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchairs -- Broken bellows -- Lighting: Dark lantern -- Emblems: Dark lantern of conspiracy -- Bellows as emblem of Ld. North., Mounted on verso of leaf 91., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 36 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 25.9 cm, mounted to 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1785, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Yawning, Public speaking, Sewing, Interiors, Poverty, Chairs, Stools, Mirrors, Bellows, Lanterns, Spiders, and Cobwebs
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date from advertisement in Theatrical magazine, 8 January 1773, p. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Underground -- Horton's soup room -- Soup room keepers: allusion to Mr. Horton -- Food: soup with dumplings -- Architectural details: ornamental vaults -- Swags -- Mirrors -- Soup rooms., and Mounted to15 x 22 cm.
Title from item., No. 3 from the series: Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental and humourous scenes in Tristam Shandy / by R. Dighton., Printmaker from series title on plate no. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors -- Furniture: chairs -- Weapons: muskets -- Weapons: swords -- Boots -- Crutches -- Walking staves -- Military uniforms -- Corporals' uniforms -- Male costume, ca. 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
