Portrait of Gilbert Wakefield with a plain background, seated to the left, looking right, arms resting on a table in front of him, right hand resting on papers/a book. Balding, wearing a white stock(?), dark waistcoat and jacket with edged cuff
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece to v. 1 of: Wakefield, G. Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield. London : J. Johnson, 1804., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Civis erat qui libera posset verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero. Juv. Sat. IV. v. 90"--Beneath title., This image resembles a larger print portrait of Gilbert Wakefield made by Robert Dunkarton, also after William Artaud, and published by Hannah Macklin in 1802 (see e.g. British Museum 1870,1008.2735)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 589 (leaf numbered '20' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probable a book illustration. Possibly from a version of the "London Cries" or related title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published April 25, 1804 by Richard Phillips, 71 St.. Pauls Church Yard
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '331' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of descriptive text below design and between curly brackets: Volunteers much inconvenience feel, when skin and bone 'twixt guts and bowels wheel., Military commands placed on either side of curly brackets: Eyes right ; feel your left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. June, 1804 by W. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"An Irishman sits beside a table, smoking, while a comely maidservant shows him two dishes of meat. His bundle is tied to a stick; a dog sits beside him. On the wall is a (framed) 'Game of the Goose': three concentric ovals divided into small sections with a goose in the middle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eight lines of verse arranged in two columns below title: An Irish-man came late unto the Inn, and ask'd the maid what meat there was within ..., Plate numbered '346' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Irishman -- Urn.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 7, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
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: Military -- Marching -- Resting -- Drinking -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann, June 8, 1804, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym, probably for Samuel Howitt., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Gin -- Hyson Tea., Watermark: J Ruse 1802., and Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of caption following title: Macb: Tell me thou unknown power, 1st Witch: He knowes thy thought hear his speech but say thou nought., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespeare's Macbeth., and Mounted to 32 x 35 cm.
