"A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day), cf. BMSats 7537, 8192. He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Neck or nothing.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: capes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day), cf. BMSats 7537, 8192. He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Neck or nothing.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: capes., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.6 x 21.7 cm., and Mounted on another impression of the same print, which is mounted on leaf 34 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from item., First issued by: F. Wingrave, April 14, 1784. Cf. No. 6531 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: theater box., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 15, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Two men in back view walk arm-in-arm, one (left) is short and fat, the other tall and thin. The former wears a short coat or spencer over his tail-coat, with wrinkled top-boots and a round hat, and carries a riding-switch. His hair is in a short queue with projecting side-pieces. The other wears a cylindrical hat with brim curled up at the sides, a coat reaching almost to his ankles with five capes forming a point in the centre of the back, with shoes tied with strings. He carries a bludgeon. The shoulders of both men are frosted with powder, see BMSat 8190. There is a landscape background. The spencer was a short double-breasted overcoat without tails called after George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), who is probably here caricatured. Gillray anticipates the earliest use of the word (1796) in the 'O.E.D.' The name derives from Earl Spencer's bet in 1792 that he would invent a coat which should become the fashion. 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 676. This garment was associated by Byron in 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' with Sir Lumley Skeffington (1771-1850) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spencer and a thread-paper and Spencer & a threadpaper
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: spencers -- Neologisms: spencer (coat).
Publisher:
Pubd. May 17th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Two men in back view walk arm-in-arm, one (left) is short and fat, the other tall and thin. The former wears a short coat or spencer over his tail-coat, with wrinkled top-boots and a round hat, and carries a riding-switch. His hair is in a short queue with projecting side-pieces. The other wears a cylindrical hat with brim curled up at the sides, a coat reaching almost to his ankles with five capes forming a point in the centre of the back, with shoes tied with strings. He carries a bludgeon. The shoulders of both men are frosted with powder, see BMSat 8190. There is a landscape background. The spencer was a short double-breasted overcoat without tails called after George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), who is probably here caricatured. Gillray anticipates the earliest use of the word (1796) in the 'O.E.D.' The name derives from Earl Spencer's bet in 1792 that he would invent a coat which should become the fashion. 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 676. This garment was associated by Byron in 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' with Sir Lumley Skeffington (1771-1850) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spencer and a thread-paper and Spencer & a threadpaper
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: spencers -- Neologisms: spencer (coat)., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.8 x 22.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 17th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Happiness, Fences, Women, and Clothing & dress
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone looking at the watch in her hand, disappointment written over her face
Description:
Reissue by Fores, "London Pubd July 1792" scored through., Four lines of verse below title: With trembling step and downcast eyes, Hopeless to meet her facour'd Swain; Eliza breathes the troubled sigh, WEith words that inward griefs explain., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Sadness, Women, and Clothing & dress
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the Battle of Tournay, 1792 -- Frenchmen -- Snuff-boxes.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
