A trade card issued by Edward Orme announcing a change of address for his printselling, framing and stationery business from Conduit Stree to New Bond Street. The image show a cherub emerging from a break in a thick bank of clouds, as he holds a caducesus. On the right a bearded man in a cap and in a fur trimmed cloak reaches toward the cherub; the man has a snake at his feet. High in the center a bat flies toward the scene
Alternative Title:
Edward Orme, removed from Conduit Street to 59 New Bond Street ...
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below image: Where are sold all his new invented transparent prints and every other publication. Merchants & dealers supplied on the most liberal terms. Pictures, prints & drawings framed. Drawing books, fancy prints & drawing materials., "Printseller to the King.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but lower edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title etched below image., Publication year from unverified data from local card catalog record., Dated "April 2, 1801" in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Painted, engraved & publish'd April 10th, 1801, by J.R. Smith, engraver in mezzotinto to His R. Hs. the Prince of Wales, No. 31, King Street, Covent Garden
Title from item, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Older couples.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 3rd, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A lady walks from the spectator holding out a closed parasol in her right hand; with the left she raises the back of her dress, showing a leg but letting her skirt trail on the ground. She wears a poke bonnet projecting horizontally beyond her face, a short-waisted clinging dress, with short sleeves and elbow length gloves. A frilled tippet or plastron blows back from her shoulders, forming a triangle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Back front of a lady of fashion in the year 1801
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasol -- Poke bonnet -- Frilled tippet -- Plastron.
Publisher:
Pub'd. July 28, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Artist supplied by cataloger., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of dialogue inscribed below design: Good lack a day John, what are you doing? you have broke all the tea things. "I can't help it Ma'am, that nasty cur[?] of yours has bit my lef." Bit your leg! has he? dear me; I hope the pretty little creature won't be sick after it!!, Numbered '259' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spilling tea service -- Tea trays -- Tea tables -- Birdcages -- Birds: parrot -- Domestic service -- Liveried Manservant.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 4, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Portrait of George Frederick Cooke as Iago in Shakespeare's 'Othello'; standing three-quarter to front with plumed hat in his left hand, his left arm close to his waist, turned to face left; wearing cloak over slashed, embroidered doublet and ruff with tassles"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., One line of verse below title: Oh, beware, my Lord of jealousy., and Library's impression with multiple tears, glued on buckram mount.
Publisher:
Published April 21, 1801, by Messrs. Wards, & Co. N. 6, Newman Street, London
Subject (Name):
Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812,
Subject (Topic):
Iago (Fictitious character), Fictitious characters, Actors, and British
General peace and general war and Interview at Rhampton
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Penned note in modern hand on backing sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Penned note in modern hand on backing sheet; mounted to 48 x 28 cm.
