Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'xxvi' and 'xxvii'.
Alternative Title:
Parisian courtesan and Prudent black legs
Description:
Title from item., Plate from?: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 393., Temporary local subject terms: Captain Crofts -- Irish adventurer., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm; mounted with pages 393-394 of Town and country magazine, 1787.
Publisher:
Printed for A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street as the act directs
A Prince of Wales holds his hat and a tasselled cane in his left hand while his rightt hand is in the pocket of the breeches pocket. His coat, breeches, waistcoat, and stockings are all striped, alluding to the picture of a braying zebra on the wall behind him and above a settee. A zebra belonging to his mother, Queen Charlotte, was referred to as "the Queen's ass", and her affection for the Prince was well-known
Alternative Title:
Queen's ass
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 17, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Portrait; half-length seated to left wearing a plain suit, frilled craval and powdered wig, looking ahead, left hand on the arm of his chair, right on a table next to a bundle of letters, holding a scroll inscribed 'Anno Dom. 1780 / XX Geo. III. / A Bill for appointing Commissioners to examine take and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom'; in a rectangular frame; after C.G. Stuart."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on sheet: 363 x 267 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 5th, 1787, as the Act directs, by J. Hall, No. 83, Berwick Street, London. Printed by Wm. Richards
"An escutcheon with four quarterings, the flower and leaves of a thistle serving as crest and supporters. The dexter chief and and sinister base quarters are covered with a lattice of rectangular bars suggesting a tartan. In the dexter chief quarter is ajar inscribed 'Brimstone'; in the dexter base, a French fleur-de-lis flag across a broken broadsword; in the sinister chief is a decapitated and bleeding head wearing a Scots bonnet across a headsman's axe; in the sinister base a set of bagpipes. The jewel of the order of the Thistle hangs from a ribbon draped round the escutcheon, with the motto 'Nemo. me. impune. lacessit.', but in place of the St. Andrew's cross is a pair of gloved hands, the right hand adjusting the glove of the left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., In lower left of image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Influence of Scotland -- Jacobites -- Coat of arms -- Allusion to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811,, and The '6' in the imprint statement has been written over with a '7'.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 9, 1786 [i.e. 7], by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, Piccadilly
A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left). Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), known as the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. The fencer on the left is Joseph de Bologne de Saint-Georges or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the French West Indies colony of Guadeloupe and one of his African slaves named Anne
Alternative Title:
Assault and Fencing match
Description:
Title engraved below image., After the painting by Victor Marie Picot., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson in the Lewis Walpole Library card catalog., Another version of this print attributes the design to Gillray: GIllray inv., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; design cropped.
Publisher:
Published by Corbeau at Paris and by Robinde at London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810., and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799.
Volume 2, page 47. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man and two women with turbans seated round a table drinking from large goblets; in the background cushions and a lute; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Belle estrangère empoisonneé par sa soeur, tiré de lhistoire du docteur juif : vide le petit bossu, daus Les contes arabes
Description:
Titles from text in English and French below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 47 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 31st March 1787, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Tables, Turbans, and Lutes
A young man in Scottish dress makes love to a young girl as they sit under a tree on the banks of a river
Description:
Title from item., Number '195' appears in lower left corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Scottish dress -- Love scene -- River -- Highlands.
Title etched below image., Attributed to Kingsbury. Cf. British Museum catalogue., At bottom of the image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Bishops -- Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Muffs -- Upside down pictures., and Partial watermark center on left edge.
Title etched below image., Wicksteed as engraver from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; loss of text from imprint statement?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume -- Puffs -- Men milliners -- Altered Biblical quotation: "They are altogether lighter than vanity" from Psalm 62:9., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 16, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Gard
