"A foppishly dressed man stands full face, holding a cane against his left shoulder. The fingers of his right hand are extended to display a large ring on the fourth finger. He wears a high-crowned hat, a voluminous swathing round his neck apparently of spotted gauze; a high collar at the back of his head reaches his hat-brim. His breeches are high in the waist and long in the leg where they are tied; low wrinkled top-boots show striped stockings. His coat is cut away to form tails. Beside him is a small dog with a ruff-like collar."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: 'Whoe,er, with curious eye, has rang'd Through Ovids tales, has Seen, How Jove, incens'd, to Monkies chang'd A tribe of worthless Men, The Brute with Contempt the man surveyd Nor would a name bestow, But Woman lik'd the motley breed And Calld this thing a Beau.', and Watermark (partial): initials G R below shield.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 29, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, and Rings
Portrait of John Horne Tooke; half length, to the right, wearing queue wig and unbuttoned black jacket over a waistcoat and cravat
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state with the imprint "Published March 25th, 1791, by A. Smith, No. 10 Millbank Row," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D6960)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 339 (leaf numbered '160' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 10th, 1791, by Anker Smith, Church Lane Chelsea, & No. 9 Milbank Row, also by Mr. Skelton in the Hay Markey and Printed by C.W. Richards
"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair is a small straw hat with a high silk crown from which a veil hangs down her back. On the wall behind her is a picture: 'Nina', a small thin man kneels before the stout and terrified Nina (who believes him to be the ghost of her lover)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Martin Van Butchell, 1735-1812 -- Literature: allusion to Berkeley's Nina, or, The Madness of Love -- Pictures amplifying subject: Nina -- Furniture: armchairs -- Foot stools -- Clothing: garters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"Portrait of Lady Arabella Seymour, born Stuart; three-quarter length, slightly to the left; one hand resting on table to the left with two books behind; wearing pearls that reach down to her waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Arabella Stuart
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a proof state; for a later state with title re-etched and plate number added in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Possibly engraved after the drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 124 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Henry Wigstead or William Holland., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Hollands exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitce one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespearian costume -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 3 -- Dogs -- Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, in House of Commons, 6 May, 1791., and Mounted to 35 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Six caricatures of a lawyer arguing a case in various manners: 1) Influencing the judge, 2) A knock me down argument, 3) A funny case, 4) A forcible argument, 5) A maiden case, and 6) An honest pleader. In the last four vignettes the lawyer holds a scroll with text alluding to: Crim con., a "scondrel of a Jew", and "Black Harry alias Diving Dan ..."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 20, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Inscribed in the plate: Vide Fontaine's tales, p. 131., Plate from: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated (1st ed.), 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of print and continuing under print: From John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated., and On page 199 in volume 2.
"Louis XVI sits fatly at a table, carving large pieces from a roast bird, a rolled paper in his pocket inscribed 'Route de Melz'; he turns back to an obsequiously grinning officer wearing a wig and ruffled collar and sleeves, who approaches from an open door to right, bowing and presenting an 'Ordre of la municipalite poor l'Arret de Monsieur Louis de Bourbon', the king saying 'Je me f- de tout cela Laisse moi manger tranqillement'; in the doorway are seen a short man with the fleur-de-lis on his arm and a whip who comments, 'Voila but for his dam guts we had been safe out of their reach', and five heavy-looking soldiers, all with skull-and-crossbone motifs on their bearskin hats. To left, Marie Antoinette stands looking in a mirror, adjusting her neckerchief and saying 'Come my dear Louis havn't you finish'd your two Turkeys & drank your six bottles, you know we shall dine at Mont medy', a fine hat on the chair in front of her. Behind to left, the Dauphin sits grimacing on a water-closet, clutching at himself; his nurse approaches him with a beaker and spoon, saying 'aha! mon Petit Bourbon de shi-ten luck be de good Luck'. On the wall, three frames, the first, titled 'Louis 14', shows a preening figure, nude to the waist with a fistful of thunderbolts, standing on the back of a prostrate figure with several others abject at his feet, a temple to right; the second lacks a picture, but has an upside-down notice stuck in it, reading 'Par le roy'; the third, 'Juillet 14 1789', is the storming of the Bastille."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in the world, admita[nc]e 1 shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 41 x 56 cm., Watermark., German translation of title in contemporary hand at bottom of sheet., and Numbered in ms. in lower left corner of sheet: 369.
Publisher:
Pub. July 24, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795, and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait., and Mounted to 36 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793, Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823, and Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Chimneypieces, Figurines, Pedestals, Boxers (Sports), and Toys
