Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Printed on one sheet with another portrait of Steevens by Sayers., and Mounted to 25 x 37 cm.
"The interior of a small brick shed in which coal is heaped. George Hanger, in profile to the left, thin, and in tattered but fashionable clothes, carries a sack towards the doorway through which a coal-cart is seen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: coal shed -- Trades: coal-man -- Allusion to debts.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The interior of a small brick shed in which coal is heaped. George Hanger, in profile to the left, thin, and in tattered but fashionable clothes, carries a sack towards the doorway through which a coal-cart is seen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: coal shed -- Trades: coal-man -- Allusion to debts., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 21.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Reverse copy of a print by Gillray: A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering. On the walls hang his sword, cloak, cocked hat, and a bust portrait of Frederick the Great. The only objects on the boarded floor are a close-stool (right) with a torn 'Brussells Gazette', a chamber-pot, a "tobacco box", and pair of jack-boots (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on that of the early print of which this is a reverse. Cf. No. 9510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
"A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering; on his nightcap is an insect. The plaster has fallen from the wall leaving large patches of brick; on it hang his sword, cloak, cocked hat, and a bust portrait of Frederick the Great inscribed 'F. 11'. The only objects on the boarded floor are a close-stool (left) with a torn 'Brussells Gazette', a chamber-pot, and pair of jack-boots (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: delapidated cottage -- Furniture: truckle bed -- Close-stool -- Chamberpots -- Newspapers: Brussels Gazette -- Smoking: pipe -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Frederick II -- Military uniforms: German uniform -- Emblems: two-headed Habsburg eagle -- Germany: German Legion (York Hussars).
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22th [sic], 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering; on his nightcap is an insect. The plaster has fallen from the wall leaving large patches of brick; on it hang his sword, cloak, cocked hat, and a bust portrait of Frederick the Great inscribed 'F. 11'. The only objects on the boarded floor are a close-stool (left) with a torn 'Brussells Gazette', a chamber-pot, and pair of jack-boots (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: delapidated cottage -- Furniture: truckle bed -- Close-stool -- Chamberpots -- Newspapers: Brussels Gazette -- Smoking: pipe -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Frederick II -- Military uniforms: German uniform -- Emblems: two-headed Habsburg eagle -- Germany: German Legion (York Hussars)., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.0 x 34.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22th [sic], 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away. Virtue and truth, driv'n to despair, it's rage compells to fly, but cherishes, with hellish care, theft, murder, perjury. Damn'd cup! that on the vitals preys, that liquid fire contains which madness to the heart conveys, and rolls it thro' the veins., Companion print: Beer Street., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3136., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 186.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Fictitious societies.
