Title from item., Four lines of verse below title on plate: And now the dear cratures appear / As if for hot action inclin'd for / With breast-work projecting in front, / And extended bumbatteries behind, sir. [Signed] vide Paddy O'Brien., Price printed in lower right corner: 1..6., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes -- Fortification breastworks., and Watermark in center of sheet: C Patch.
Publisher:
Published March 15, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
"The interior of a bedroom with a large four-post bed (right). An emaciated man in nightcap, shirt, and breeches sits on the edge of a bed; a bailiff (left) seizes him by the right shoulder threatening him with his bludgeon; another holds him by the right wrist ..." (Source: George)
Description:
Title etched below image., Suggested attribution to Kingsbury in British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Lt. Major Scot, Governor of St. Helena -- Medical Doctor -- Dying patient -- Sick bed -- Medicine bottles.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores October the 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Martin Folkes. Addison
Description:
Title from text in image above the two figures. and Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. and Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Martin Folkes. Addison
Description:
Title from text in image above the two figures., Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image., and Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719. and Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
Title etched below image., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: [...]ng?
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height.", Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Charmers of the Age See Nichols's Book, 3rd edition p. 258. Given to me by the Right Honble. Willm Windham., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: There is no scarcer plate in the whole collection. No more copies of it than this & Lord Orford's have been found., and On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 188 x 263 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
"Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-147.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Hodges, C. H. (Charles Howard), 1764-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 August 1786]
Call Number:
Drawer 786.08.29.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Companion print to "Children spouting tragedy" published by J.R. Smith October 27, 1785., Temporary local subject terms: Children acting -- Expressions of speech: spouting., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 29th 1786 by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 21.0 x 29.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., and Date '1785' in lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
