"Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. His features are blunt and ugly. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 11th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- Coaches: muddy -- Domestic service: coachman -- Footmen -- Young women -- Male dress, 1800 -- Street scenes: Bond Street.
Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding a dog
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item., With the imprint statement: London Pubd, as the Act directs 1st. March 1796 by Colnaghi & Co. (late Torres) No. 127 Pall Mall., and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement: [Fo]lios of carecatures [sic] lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Knights -- Containers: travel trunks -- Coachmen -- Military officers.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Hixon June 12, 1800, by Hixon, No. 355 Strand near Exeter change
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: billiards room -- Furniture: raised bench -- Score boards -- Games: billiards.
"An elderly man walks stiffly in profile to the right on a flagged pavement. Under his left arm he carries horizontally a large umbrella. In his (gloved) right hand is a glove. He wears a round hat, his straight coat is not of modern cut; his straight legs are engulfed in wide boots of Hessian pattern but not of fashionable shape. He wears whiskers with a small and neat side-curl and queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Two lines of quoted text below image: "There is an easiness of deportment and an elegance of indescribable debonair about the beaus of "the old school which would be ridiculous for the puppies of the day to think of imitating." Lord Chesterfield, Letters., and Temporary local subject terms: Clopton, Charles Boothby Skrymsher, ca. 1740-1800, "Prince Boothby" -- Male dress, 1800 -- Umbrellas -- Literature: quotation from Lord Chesterfield's Letters -- Reference to the subject of the print in Horace Walpole Correspondence, Yale ed., v. 12, p. 201.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 11th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A pretty young woman sits on the knee of a military officer. They are unaware of the entry (left) of the furious husband, stick in hand. He is ugly and elderly and says: "My Wife, as sure as I am a Haberdasher."--British Museum online catalogue and A pretty young woman sits on the knee of a military officer as they embrace, both unaware that her furious, red-faced husband has just entered the room through the door on the left. He clutches a large stick and exclaims, "My wife, as sure as I am a haberdasher."
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Women: old maids -- Military officers., and Watermark: 1799 Russell & Co.
Title from item., Attributed by Grego to Rowlandson and Woodward., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pastimes: skipping.
Publisher:
Pubd May 20th, 1800, by R. Ackermann, N.101 Strand
"A stout elderly man (three-quarter length) sits astride across a chair, his arms folded on its back; he wears a hat and holds a cane; his head is turned in profile to the left, and is seen through the wide-open sash of a window in Boodle's, St. James's Street. On the wall behind (left) is a portrait of a horse: 'Yellow Filly'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title and imprint statement: *Vide: a d---'d good coca-tree pun., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Coffee houses: Cocoa Tree -- Clubs: Boodles -- Paintings: Yellow Filly -- Architectural details: sash window -- Furniture: ladderback chair -- Sir Frank Standish, 1746-1812.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
