"Interior view of the grand hall, during a formal dinner; four long tables lin room, the central two joined at far end; Corinthian pillasters framing hall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 51., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 181., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Jany. 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Mansion House (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Halls, Events, Interiors, Columns, and Chandeliers
"A rich farmer's parlour or drawing-room, with curtains drawn over two high windows (right). Betty, plump and bucolic, wearing a high-waisted dress with short sleeves, sits at a square piano (left), in profile to the left, laboriously playing and singing, her eyes on the music: 'Bluebells of Scotland Sung by Mrs Jordan. O Where & O Where is my Highland Laddie gone'. The farmer and his wife stand by the piano, gaping in delighted admiration; they are stout, good-humoured, and plainly dressed. A younger girl, slimmer and less rustic, stands by the piano (left), singing; she holds up a fan. Under the piano is a book: 'Songs of Catalani'. Three elderly ladies sit at a card-table (right), on which are spread drawings or embroidery by 'B. Giles'. One sleeps, two gossip with spiteful zest. A son of the house sits primly with his back to the windows, in profile to the left, his hands folded, ill at ease in frilled shirt, and powdered hair. A small foot-boy enters from the right with a decanter and glasses on a salver and a cake-basket on his arm, the cakes falling out. A spaniel sits dejectedly in the foreground. The room is lit by two pairs of candles in sconces, two candles on the piano, and one on the table. The chairs are of modern shape, with stuffed backs and ormolu ornament. Above the chimney-piece is a heavily framed sampler with two alphabets, figures from 1 to 12, 'Evil communications Corrupt good Manners', and a design of two birds flanking two hearts pierced with arrows, inscribed: 'Betty Giles aged 16. 1808. Cheese Hall'. Over the piano in an oval frame is a view of 'Cheese-Farm': the corner of a house next a small thatched cottage and two haystacks. A gigantic horse looks over the cottage roof, and in the foreground a woman milks a large cow, beside which are two geese and a cock larger than the woman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Farmer Giles and his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours on her return from school
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as Col. Braddyll in the British Museum catalogue., and Window mounted to 38 x 53 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 1st, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A satire on Drury Lane Theatre. The Board consists of three men at a table, almost covered by four large dishes, each containing an article of food with a portrait head. On the farther side sits Sheridan, ladling guineas towards his grinning and avid mouth. Facing him is Tom Sheridan, identified by a pamphlet, 'Caractacus', in his coat-pocket, and, opposite him, the President of the Board, .... These two turn towards the foremost of a number of hungry dogs with human heads; the latter beckons to him, while Tom feeds him with a cheque or note of 100£. Another dog, its collar inscribed 'John Bull' [1803], showing that he is Colman, turns away, but looks distrustfully over his shoulder at the pair. There are six others. T. Sheridan draws furtively from the pocket in the tail of his coat a purse, for which a (normal) dog begs, seated on an open book, 'The World' [first played at Drury Lane 31 Mar. 1808], showing that he is James Kenney. Beside the book are scattered papers inscribed 'Rejected Plays &c.', at which two dogs with human heads sniff and paw. One has a collar inscribed 'Carlo' [from 'The Caravan', see No. 10172, &c.], and is probably F. Reynolds. A man, resembling Wroughton in No. 11079, approaches the table, a napkin under his arm, carrying a large tureen inscribed 'Water Grue and containing plays: 'World!' [Kenney], 'Siege of St Quintin' [by T. Hook, first played Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1808], 'Travellers' [by Andrew Cherry, music by Corri, first played Drury Lane, 14 Jan. 1806], 'Venoni' ['or, The Novice of St. Mark's'] (by M. G. Lewis, first played Drury Lane, 1 Dec. 1808). The dishes on the table are 'Toad in a Hole, Turtle, Calfs Head Surprse [sic]', and 'Barbicued Pig'. Under the table (right) is a pile of papers, or books in shadow at which mice or rats are nibbling. These are the neglected classics, and are inscribed 'Jonson', 'Shakesp . . .', 'Beaumont and Fletch . . .' The room is panelled."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as De Wilde in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Satirist., and Mounted to 27 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Published for the Satirist Feby. 1st, 1809, by S. Tipper, 37 Leadenhall Street
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852, Colman, George, 1762-1836, Cherry, A. 1762-1812 (Andrew),, Dimond, William, active 1780-1837, Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841, Kenney, James, 1780-1849, Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818, Reynolds, Frederick, 1764-1841, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sheridan, Thomas, 1775-1817, and Wroughton, Richard, 1748-1822
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Dramatists, Eating & drinking, Interiors, and Taverns (Inns)
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four ladies sit at a round table, two old and ugly, the others young and comely. The ugliest (left) peers through spectacles at a newspaper, screaming, "Mercy on us here is news!! They write from Hanover that when Boney part took possession of that country, he ravish'd all the Women!!" The other, holding up her fan, exclaims: "O! the Wretch". The two younger ladies (right) turn to each other, saying, "It is very true Ma'am it is only a word and a blow with him-Your Honour or your property", and "Well Ma'am if he should come here, at all events I will take care of my property". A young girl, sitting demurely at a little distance from the table, her wrists crossed on her lap, says: "So will I Mamma!" A butler with a tray of glasses enters the door, grinning."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; date appears to have been burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued in 1815; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 289., Plate numbered "271" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling coulered [sic].", and Leaf 50 in volume 4.
"Illustration to a broadside, printed in four columns in the manner of a newspaper, and covering the upper part of the third and fourth columns. A whole-length portrait of Mrs. Clarke (unrecognizable, but alluring), standing with one hand on the head of a sofa. In the background are four oval bust portraits of other women: 'Miss Taylor' [see British Museum Satires No. 11229], 'Mrs Carey' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050], 'Miss Gifford', and 'Mrs Shaw'. ... The text, in eight chapters, is in the quasi-biblical language not uncommon in satires, e.g., British Museum Satires No. 6465, and afterwards exploited by Hone. The text is an account of the relations between the Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke, and the Parliamentary proceedings, highly flattering to Wardle and Burdett. It ends: 'And behold he [the Duke] walketh in a vain shew, which shall fade in the sight of the people, whilst the fame of Wardle, Whitbread, and Burdett shall flourish and endure . . . the tergiversation of the Black Coats may whiten his honour [see British Museum Satires No. 11269], but who can believe him innocent of folly, vice, and acknowledged adultery? ... Now the rest of the Acts of Mary Ann Clarke, ... are they not written in the Chronicles of Blue Covers which flutter on the Stalls.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Second book of the Chronicle of the Isles., and "Price one shilling."--Following imprint.
Publisher:
Printed by and for J. Herbert, at his Newspaper Office, 4, Merlin's Place, Spa Fields and Sold by W. Wilson, 4, Little Warner Street
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815., Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820., Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844., and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833.
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: The first of September, at five in the morn, The weather quite cloudy, the prospect forlorn..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
A conversation piece: John Rich and his family relaxing in the gardens at Cowley; three men on the right stand admiring a painting; two women on the left sit by the table in conversation, behind John Rich who reclines on pillows on grass, an open book to his left and large pitcher in front of him; after Hogarth; illustration to Nichols' and Steevens' 'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth' (1810).
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: From an original painting in the possession of Abrm. Langford Esqr., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth., and Found in Filbrigg, p. 235 (iii).
"Portrait of George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, half-length, standing facing to left reading a book, wearing coat with star, sash, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 698 (leaf numbered '151' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, and Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834.
Title from caption above images., Four images on one plate, each separately titled with series titles and plates numbered. Also each image signed below with artist (left) and printmaker (right)., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Facius, Johann Gottlieb, approximately 1750- printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[10 May 1809]
Call Number:
809.05.10.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portait of William Cole, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in a mantle over his dark frockcoat with a powdered bobwig on his head, his arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Imprint from untrimmed impression in the British Museum., Copy trimmed with loss of imprint., and Formerly housed in Misc Mss (now LWL Mss 36) with a 1770 letter to James Granger from William Cole.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 10. 1809. by I.G. & G.S. Facius N.8 Macclesfield Street Soho
