"Two profile heads in proximity. A poor woman wearing a plain straw hat (right) looks with anxious supplication at the hideous face of a woman wearing vulgar finery and jewelry, her hands in a muff. The latter scowls contemptuously, with closed eyes. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old Dowager meets a poor relation.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and plate number etched above image., "No. 15.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old dowager meets a poor relation., State without plate number., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.8 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Earrings, Muffs, Necklaces, Pleading (Begging), and Widows
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a series of four prints personifying the countries that comprised the United Kingdom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1, Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: NB. Regimentals & naval uniforms made in the neatest manner., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Miller, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Dry-goods, Dry goods stores, and Window displays
"The younger man leaps a low paling, firing at a flight of pigeons, but missing every bird. His fat companion, who is checked by a low stile (right), tries to catch his hat which his friend has knocked off."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Second of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Bird shooting -- Bird houses -- Birds: pigeons.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Plate [157] 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'; a stone plate with coins from the reign of Charles I; on top inscribed 'SIEGE COINS', in front a pickaxe, a pointing stick and a pot of coins, surrounded by plantation decor, castle towers behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [157] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"A woman wearing a mob-cap, with tongue protruding and eyes wide, grasps her husband's left ear and raises a cudgel to strike him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 11' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Three lines of text below image: A termagent wife, a henpeck'd husband & a cudgel are three principal ingredients for bringing forward the passion of simple bodily pain, as may an unfortunate sufferer can witness., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Two rows of seven caricatured faces, in profile or looking out, of men and women
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, artist and date of publication from Grego., Publisher based on embossed stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Dated in a contemporary hand in lower right margin: June 1800.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Four columns of verse signed at the end "Hudibras" below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ..., For earlier states, see no.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles-- Horns: stag's horns -- Ram's horns -- Cow's horns -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Boats: row-boat -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler (1612-1680).
"A yokel in a smock laughs, clasping his side, with two others, who listen with sly grins. He has a pitchfork the others spade and rake. Behind is a cottage among trees; in the background a church spire. Below the design: 'Ods Dickins - I ha Play'd our New Parson such afunney trick, You must know he came to our house last Night in the midst of the Storm - so what does I do but persuades he to sleep with Wife & I - so I slips out of Bed this morning & leaves em both fast a sleep - Now thinks I as I shuts the door softly - how Foolish he will look when he finds himself alone in Bed with my Wife - an't that a good Joke now, ha, ha, ha.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New way to cheat the parson
Description:
Title etched above image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of text below title: Ods Dickins - I ha play'd our new parson such a funney trick. You must know he came to our house last night ..., and Plate numbered '244' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th May, 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Farmers, Gardening equipment & supplies, and Shirts
