"A cart has been upset into the river close to Putney Bridge. The head and shoulders of a stout man, one hand raised sanctimoniously, emerge from the water; his fat wife falls head-foremost on his back, her legs much displayed; she clutches the queue of his wig. The horse (left) stands quietly in the water behind the cart (right) which is tilted into the water at a steep angle. In the background is Putney Bridge (left) and the tower of Fulham or Putney church (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of ducking
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Edy by British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Putney Bridge., and Partial watermark: Top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores October 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A cart has been upset into the river close to Putney Bridge. The head and shoulders of a stout man, one hand raised sanctimoniously, emerge from the water; his fat wife falls head-foremost on his back, her legs much displayed; she clutches the queue of his wig. The horse (left) stands quietly in the water behind the cart (right) which is tilted into the water at a steep angle. In the background is Putney Bridge (left) and the tower of Fulham or Putney church (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of ducking
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Edy by British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Putney Bridge., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 25.9 x 36.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores October 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6979. A bust portrait of Queen Charlotte, directed to the left, taking a pinch of snuff. She wears a jewelled oriental turban; her hair is studded with jewels, and jewels cover her neck and ornament her dress. A large ear-ring is conspicuous. In the upper left corner of the print, under the words 'The Pun', is a large heart-shaped jewel surmounted with a crown; it stands, embedded in diamonds, in a box inscribed 'Bulse'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Cheyt Sing in his Eastern dress., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
A satire on Madame Mara: She sits in an armchair decorated with Masonic symbols which is in the center of a concert room, with a boarded floor and low platform along the back for the performers. She sings the lines "Oh, Oh, de roasta beef-a de charmante pudding O"; in her hands is an open music book titled "Oh the road beed of Old England, Fieldings popular song. The plebeian audience sit or stand along the right and left foreground. On the left a lady asks her neioghbor, "Did she sing this sogn at the Abbey?" He responds, "She never sung so well as the Abbey in her life." In the center foreground sits a dog who watches the vocalist. The wall is decorated with candle-sconces and a placard with the "Rules to be observed in this meeting" which jabs at the plebeian audience. One man performs on a salt-box, another with marrow-bone and cleaver while yet another puts a Jew's harp in his mouth; a fourth plays a bladder bridge. See British Museum catalogue for further discussion
Description:
Title etched below image., Seven lines of descriptive prose inscribed below title., Possibly engraved by Henry Wigstead (d. 1793). See attribution in British Museum catalogue to Mr. Hawkins., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 28th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Wapping (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Masons, Audiences, Concerts, Dogs, Etiquette, Harps, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Titles etched below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and country magazine., The two illustrations are numbered "No. VII" and "No. VIII" in upper left above each oval, respectively., Temporary local subject terms: Mrs Sigonier -- Comte de Guimes., and Watermark (partial) on left edge.
Two ladies with the enormous derrières and bosoms of the day stand back-to-back. A small dog on the rump of the lady on the left barks at a small wild boar on the rump of the lady on the right
Alternative Title:
High bum-fiddle pig bow wow
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and A print in the same series as British Museum catalogue v. 6, no. 7101.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 16, 1786 by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court St. Martins Lane
Titles etched below images., Plates originally issued in: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and country magazine, xviii, 569., The two illustrations are numbered "No. XXXI" and "No. XXXII" in upper left above each oval, respectively., and Mounted to 20.3 x 27.8 cm., with pages from the Town and country magazine, xviii, p. 569-570.
A satire on 18th-century English hairdressing and women’s fashion: a view of a London shop, presumably "The Rose" (note the large rose above the doorway), a hairdressing and wig-making shop owned by William Vickery (active circa 1783-1832). The shop is shown with double bay windows on the ground floor in which are displayed enormous wigs decorated with feathers. Men and women lean out of the windows on the upper level to watch a pair of bears escaping from the front door. The bears -- one saying to the other "Run brother Run, if were caught were Kill’d as sure as a Gun" -- are pursued by the proprietor of the shop and another woman. The shopfront is covered with advertisements for the real services and products offered by Vickery including Bears Grease, Soft Pomatums, Sticking Plaister, Curling Irons as well as "La Tete Transparante" and "Figaro Braids". A woman fleeing from the bears has lost her elaborate wig and is shown bald
Alternative Title:
Frizzle in an uproar
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 7, 1786, by S. Hooper, No. 212 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vickery, William.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Storefronts, Bay windows, Hairdressing, Bears, and Wigs
Titles engraved below images., Plate originally issued in: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and country magazine, xviii, 513., The two illustrations are numbered "No. XXVIII" and "No. XXIX" in upper left above each oval, respectively., and Temporary local subject terms: Mary Corbyn.
