"The undergraduate walks diagonally (right to left) across the grass of a College court; under his arm is a book: 'Advice to Freshmen'. Behind him (right) the grossly obese Master stands in a Gothic doorway leading from a staircase, pointing angrily at the culprit. A shambling man with a broom stands obsequiously beside the doorway, looking over his shoulder apprehensively at the unconscious undergraduate, who leaves a trail of conspicuous footprints on the turf. A Fellow in a mullioned window next the doorway scowls at the young man through a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's-progress at the university. No. 2
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Second of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"The undergraduate walks diagonally (right to left) across the grass of a College court; under his arm is a book: 'Advice to Freshmen'. Behind him (right) the grossly obese Master stands in a Gothic doorway leading from a staircase, pointing angrily at the culprit. A shambling man with a broom stands obsequiously beside the doorway, looking over his shoulder apprehensively at the unconscious undergraduate, who leaves a trail of conspicuous footprints on the turf. A Fellow in a mullioned window next the doorway scowls at the young man through a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's-progress at the university. No. 2
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Second of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 30.1 x 42.3 cm., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1806., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Two Fellows in cap and gown (l.), walking l. to r. under a stone arcade, see with shocked disapproval a dismayed undergraduate emerging from a door giving on to the arcade. He is slim and fashionably dressed. Another undergraduate (r.) with gold-embroidered gown, and the gold tassel denoting a peer, walking r. to left. along the arcade, watches the encounter with amused delight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's-progress at the university. No. 1
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and First of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by Hh. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Two Fellows in cap and gown (l.), walking l. to r. under a stone arcade, see with shocked disapproval a dismayed undergraduate emerging from a door giving on to the arcade. He is slim and fashionably dressed. Another undergraduate (r.) with gold-embroidered gown, and the gold tassel denoting a peer, walking r. to left. along the arcade, watches the encounter with amused delight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's-progress at the university. No. 1
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., First of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.0 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 42.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by Hh. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Three lines of a quotation following title: "You were also Jupiter a swan for the love of Leda omnipotent love! how near the god drew to the complexion of a goose, when gods have hot backs: what shall poor men do? [Merry Wives of Windsor, v. v.], Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: Candlestick -- Mirror -- Female Costume: Night dress -- Furniture: Canopied bed -- Male Costume: Night shirt., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Print numbered '128' with ms. note in modern hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr., 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
"Frontispiece to 'All the Talents', 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus', i.e. E. S. Barrett, attacking the late Ministry. The print (Hogarthian in manner) has little relation to the verses, and is probably adapted from an earlier satire, perhaps on Bute. A creature with the body of a man and the face of an ape, with a tail, tramples on burning papers. It wears spectacles, a large wig, bands, old-fashioned laced coat (with a star), and tattered breeches. On one foot is a shoe; the left. leg is in a large jack-boot (? originally an emblem of Bute). In the right hand is a crozier with which he pulls down two books from a shelf: 'Magna Charter' and 'Coronation Oath'. Behind him a musket inscribed 'Army', the barrel pointing upwards, is firing a blast at the falling books. His left hand rests on a book or ledger, open on a book-stand, in which he writes with the feathered end of his pen. The page is headed 'Finance'; from the book hangs a paper: 'Country Dances'. The burning papers are inscribed 'Negotiation' [bis], 'Sinecures'. He is smoking a pipe from which thick clouds of smoke rise and obscure a profile bust portrait of Pitt. Below the design: 'Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.'."--British Museum online catalogue and British Museum curator's comments: The monster symbolizes the blind and reckless politician. The verses, though published after the fall of the Ministry ... were written before it, and do not allude to the Catholic question, here indicated by the treatment of the 'Coronation Oath'. Nor are the peace negotiations, ... directly referred to. They contain a tribute to Pitt, and gibes at Petty, ... here illustrated. They went through nineteen editions in 1807 ....
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: All the Talents, 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus.', Lettered below title with a line from Virgil (Aeniad, III, 658): Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 18th, 1807, by I. I. Stockdale, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Apes, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Part of a series of reduced copies published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker inferred by cataloger based other prints from the series., Plate numbered '24' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Beauty -- Weight -- Dogs -- Courtship.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1802., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker inferred from other prints from the series., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 14., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of print originally published by Fores in 1798., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker based oin other prints from the series., Plate numbered '17' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Drunkards., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title engraved below image, above verses., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on two sides., Plate numbered '445' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Four numbered verses of a song arranged in two columns in lower portion of print: Judy leads me such a life, Judy leads me such a life..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 24, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
