Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Captain Samuel Hawker and Mrs. Sophia (Horton) Barttelot, in the aftermath of their crim. con. trial
Description:
Titles engraved below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1790, p. 291.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner., Six lines of verse below image: The partridge grieves the cock should use her ill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Birds: cocks and hens -- Partridges -- Literature: quotation from Aesop's fable., Plate number erased from this impression., and w Window mounted to 20 x 24 cm.
In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
A thin man with a very large nose and lips embraces his new, very large wife whose features are equally exaggerated. They stand at the edge of a bed, he almost falling on her lap. A cat stands on a bracket shelf pulling at the man's pigtail queue. On the wall a picture amplifies the subject
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon
Description:
Title from caption below image., Companion print: Six weeks after the marriage., Printmaker from companion print., Artist from copy at the Library of Congress., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Interiors, Marriage, Spouses, and Wigs
Title etched below image., Unverified attribution to Dent from local card catalog., Publication information from the Library of Congress copy. Cf. LC 3:42., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dissenters -- Symbols: dove of peace -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Dice and dice-box -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel -- Reference to the House of Commons -- Literature: reference to Richard Price's Observations on civil liberty -- Literature: reference to Edmund Burke's A philosophical inquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful -- Acts: repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Thirty-nine articles -- Votes: majority 189 on repeal of Test and Corporation Act., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., One of a series of "Drolls.", Temporary local subject terms: Matrimony -- Adultery -- Cuckolds -- Infants -- Interiors: parlor -- Furniture: tables -- Chairs -- Wooden floors -- Smoking: pipes -- Tankards -- Pets: cats -- Emblems: mounted stag's head -- Female costume: morning dress., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The jay would for a gaudy peacock pass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Birds: peacocks -- Literature: quotation from Aesop's fable., and Window mounted to 20 x 24 cm.
