In the center of a broad city street, a gaily-dressed lamplighter carries his ladder as he walks to the right. In his right hand he carries a can with burning end and a pair of scissors with a chain in a case hangs from his waist. In the distance (left) is a large building with a church spire rising behind, and on the right a pillar with a lamp and iron rail above a brick wall
Description:
Title from caption above verses etched below image: "By Mr. Dibdin.", Verse in three columns below title begins: "I'm jolly Dick the lamplighter, they say the sun's my dad, and truly I believe it sir, for I'm a pretty lad ...", Numbered "602" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Purchased by British Museum in 2010. For similar, see British Museum number 1935,0522.1.36 in the online catalogue., No. 41 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Cities & towns, Ladders, Lampposts, and People associated with manual labor
Title from text above image., Caption below image: The modern Judas, addressed to the free electors of Westminster., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: "... at whose exhibition rooms may be seen the compleatest collection of comick & satiricat [sic] prints in Europe. Admittance one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: St. Stephen's Chapel -- Elections: Westminster, 1790 -- Literature: allusion to Sheridan's School for scandal -- Naval uniforms: admirals' uniforms., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis and initials LVG.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1790 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Townshend, John, Lord
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse below title: When Hymen joins the lover and the fair, Love spreads his guarding pinions o'er the pair ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Pub. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Publication date assigned by the repository based on costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: The Lady's magazine., and Temporary local subject terms: Military camps -- Tents -- Weapons: rifles -- Military uniforms -- Female costume: riding habits.
"Williams stands in the dock in profile to the right, his hands resting on a desk or board on which are writing materials and sprays of foliage. He resembles British Museum satire no. 7731, but is less good-looking. In front is the panelled side of the dock surmounted by spikes. In the background (left) behind the dock a man stands or sits full face, with head bent down."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed JN [monogram] in lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: 'The Monster,' Renwick Williams -- Dock of Old Bailey.
Publisher:
Publish'd 9 July, 1790, by E. Harding, Fleet Street, according to act of Parliament
"Half length portrait of a good-looking man, dressed in the fashion of the day, standing in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue and "Renwick Williams, who had been identified on 13 June as the mysterious Monster, see BMSat 7648, &c, was examined at Bow Street on 14 June, &c., and was tried at the Old Bailey on 7 July 1790. He was found guilty but judgement was respited till December. This portrait is evidently based on a sketch made at the trial, see BMSat 7730."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Published probably by John Wallis, whose shop was located at this address from 1775-1808. See Maxted, I. London book trades 1775-1800., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be seen the compleatest [sic] collection of caracatures [sic] in the kingdom. Admit. 1 s., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Pall Mall -- Reference to John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823 -- Brazier's shop -- Female costume: copper petticoat -- Monsters: 'The monster', Renwick Williams, fl. 1790 -- Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and initials L V G below.
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "Young lovers, for love I'd not have you despair,"., Printed in four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 8. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 200 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 253 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 27.6 x 19.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
