"Companion print to BMSat 9678. Four pretty young women are in different stages of dress; a fat woman dressed as (?) a nun, holding a bottle and glass, resembles a bawd. One (left) is having her lank hair combed by a hair-dresser. One, completely dressed, stands in a chair to see her reflection in the small mirror held by a squalid and elderly woman. She wears a quasi-oriental high-crowned turban with floating draperies; one breast is bare; she holds a mask. A young woman wearing a huge cocked hat, shirt, and breeches, puts on a stocking, her foot supported on an overturned chair. The fourth, wearing mask and large feathered hat, adjusts a 'derrière' over her petticoat, standing before a dressing-table and mirror. On the floor are a make-up box, mask, bandbox, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Companion print to: Dressing for a birthday., Temporary local subject terms: Hairdressing implements -- Mirrors -- Courtesans -- Hairdressers -- Masks -- Female costume: Masquerade -- Derrières -- Hats: Feathered turban -- Make-up boxes -- Masquerade headdress., and Watermark: 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from caption etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c. Admittance 1 shill., Companion print to: Wet souls., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: sitting rooms -- Furniture: tables -- Chairs -- Furnishings: carpets -- Paintings.
Portrait; bust-length, head and shoulders to left; wearing a crown and ermine-lined robes of state; detail from a painting depicting the marriage of Henry VII; in a rectangular filled border
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., Mounted on page 244 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 wove paper ; sheet 16.6 x 10.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1, 1790, by E. Harding, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait; bust-length, head and shoulders to left; wearing a crown and ermine-lined robes of state; detail from a painting depicting the marriage of Henry VII; in a rectangular filled border
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793., and Mounted on page 106 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:
Pub. Novr. 1, 1790, by E. Harding, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
July 8, 1790.
Call Number:
790.07.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room French aristocrats crowd across a table from Pitt who is taking money while handing a pen to the man opposite who holds a crown in his left arm as he throws coins toward Pitt's grasping hand. Above Pitt stands George III behind podium, gavel in one hand and another crown extended toward one of the many bidders shouting comments and prices. The King calls out, "This is a lot, gentlemen, of superior brilliancy to the last. This, this raises you above your fellows in a very high degree indeed. I pity your distresses from my soul, what, what, what was that you were saying about jewels, Madames, too high. You may ride over the necks of half the nation with this upon your coach. You may get in debt as fast as you please and never pay. Mind that gentlemen, never pay." The Queen walks up a ladder behind the King to retrieve more crowns from the shelves behind the King's podium, turning her head to say, "Pay some attention to that Lady's jewels, my love."
Alternative Title:
English coronet auction by King, Pitt & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse and Comfort for the late French noblesse
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Frederick George Byron by Andrew Edmunds., Publisher's advertisement below imprint: In Hollands Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humourous prints. Admtce. 1 shillg., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Irregular sheet, trimmed at an angel in lower left. Backed with blue paper.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France, and France.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Refugees, History, Avarice, Auctions, Corruption, Crowds, Crowns, and Nobility
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Woodward from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Militiamen uniforms -- Volunteers uniforms -- Female costume, 1790 -- Military weapons., Imperfect; small hole in sheet with some loss of text in imprint., and Watermark: John Hall.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 30, 1790, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"Richard Plantagenet and the Earl of Somerset stand beside a rose-bush under a large tree, with Suffolk, Warwick, Vernon and another lawyer, each urging them to show their support for whichever party they believe has told the truth, to pick a rose, white for Plantagenet, red for Somerset. Trial proof with open figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First part of King Henry the sixth. Act II. Scene IV
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751 [that is, between 1790 and 1835]
Call Number:
Print20072
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a London street, young boys inflict various forms of cruelty upon animals. In the centre, a boy (Tom Nero), identifiable by the badge on his shoulder as a pupil of St. Giles's Parish School, thrusts an arrow into a dog's anus; he ignores the offer of a large tart from a sympathetic young gentleman (said by Paulson to be a compliment to the young George III). To his left on the front of the balustrade, a boy draws a prophetic picture of Tom hanging from the gallows. Below Tom, another boy ties a bone to a dog's tail. In the lower left, a dog disembowels a cat. In the center foreground another boy kneels on the cobblestones, about to release a cock, as another boy prepares to a stick at it; the boy behind him holds a second cock. On the balustrade one boy holds a torch while his companion blinds a bird with a wire. Further to the left on the balustrade a group of boys laugh at the sight of two cats fight as they are hung by their tails from a gibbet-shaped lamp post. Above them a cat with a pair of wings tied to its back has been tossed out the attic window to see if it could fly
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Second state, with price mostly burnished from plate. This state of the plate was first issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson., First in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Quotation engraved below image: "While various scenes of sportive woe, the infant race employ, and tortur'd victims bleeding shew, the tyrant in the boy. Behold! A youth of gentler heart, to spare the creature's pain. O take, he cries - take all my tart, but tears and tart are vain. Learn from this fair example - you whom savage sports delight, how cruelty disgusts the view while pity charms the sight.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prevention of cruelty to animals.
"A young woman sits up in bed to pull the nose of a fat 'cit' who sits beside her, putting her left arm round his neck. His hat and stick lie on the ground. Behind (right) a young man in his shirt, wearing his hat and carrying shoes and coat, &c, slips from the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of a series of "Drolls.", and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Floor coverings, Spouses, and Staffs (Sticks)
Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image., One of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints whose attributions have long been doubted; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Dated to the 1790s in the British Museum online catalog, registration no.: Cc,3.122., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in before page 159 (leaf numbered '22' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
