"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [Or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the print-seller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer.] a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print (reversed) appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, date, and publisher from finished state. and Cf. No. 8885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Plate [90] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of the wives of Henry VIII on ribbons held by an angel in clouds at top, another behind holding crown aloft."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wives of Henry VIII
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [90] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,, Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537,, Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542,, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536,, Anne, of Cleves, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1515-1557,, and Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548,
