"Skaters have fallen upon breaking ice, some lie flat; heads and legs and arms emerge in wild confusion. In the middle distance (right) two skaters, one a parson, flee headlong from the danger-spot. On the shore (left) three men stand watching the catastrophe with amusement. Farther off is a marquee within which are tiny figures seated at a table."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cold broth and calamity
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: Strassbourg lilly on shield with coronet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Ice skating, Skaters, and Marquees
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Reissue? Cf. No. 8196 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Reissue of Grego, J. Rowlandson, v.i, p. 313-4., Temporary local subject terms: Skates -- Marquees., Watermark: J Whatman 1815., Printmaker's name and date partially erased from this copy., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
"Satire: parson, with two men, exorcising ghost in field."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text beneath title: He donna half like it, give un a little more Maister Parson and he'll vanish!, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Parson Adams and Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 130., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Lawyers: country justice -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: tables -- Slipcovered chairs -- Smoking: pipes -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Drinking glasses -- Night watchmen -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
On the right a balding man sits at a well-laid table opposite a parson. The bald man has his arm around the waist of a pretty young woman who stands to his right with her one hand on his head. The parson toastst the couple. A dog sits on the floor near the table on the left. In the background are two pictures that amplify the subject of the print: above the hearth is a picture of a horse, and on the wall to the left (beside a ornate mirror) is a portrait of a bald man in an oval frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: If I live to grow old, for I find I go down. ... And a clearly young girl to rub my bald pate', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A hand-coloured print of a company of Paviors outside the Tun Tavern. The Paviors hold rammers resembling large bottles. A portly cleric walks over the paving with an air of solemnity during which the paviors all cheer. On the left stands a woman with a large basket on her head and another Pavior holds a cobble stone and a pick axe. Buildings and a church steeple stand in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810446
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication inferred from those of the companion print "The chairmen's terror," which bears the imprint "Publishd. July 18th, 1792, by T. Rowlandson, No. 52 Strand"; see Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 59.533.465. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 308., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: When J-x walks the streets, the paviors cry, God bless you Sir, & lay their rammers by., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple ; sheet 24 x 29 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, irregular trimming around caption text.
Publisher:
Thomas Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Obesity, Taverns (Inns), Laborers, Baskets, and Pickaxes
Opposite page 106. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on prostitution and foolish clergy; two courtesans tease a fat and smiling clergyman in a well-furnished room. The costume of the women appears to be c. 1792-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Probably published by Carington Bowles. This print was included in BM Satires twice. Dorothy George correctly placed it c.1792 (no. 8235), Stephens c.1770 (no. 4588). Thomas Holcroft's popular 'Road to Ruin' was first played at Covent Garden on 18 February 1792."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.2.17, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Prostitutes., Folded to 30.6 x 26 cm., and Bound in opposite page 106 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Carington Bowles?
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Courtesans, Interiors, Sofas, Mirrors, and Draperies
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The History of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: kitchens -- Kitchen utensils -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: kitchen tables., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
