Title from text below image., Four lines of verse below title: "And shall" said she "a virgin's life await these pleasing charms ...", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Design consists of eight panels, each with its own caption and numbered 1 to 8, telling the saga of the courtship of a maid from youth to middle age
Description:
Title from caption below image., Title continues: ... sung with so much applause by Mrs. Waylett & Mad. Vestris & pubd. by Willis St. James's Street., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Noblemen -- Admirals -- Parsons -- Nabob -- Dandy -- Lawyers.
"A dandy, with moustache, whisker, and beard, steps gingerly from an archway, one of three lit by hanging lamps, leading from the portico of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, to the street. Water from a spout descends on his top-hat, whence it gushes fore and aft in huge streams. He wears tail-coat, short trousers, and very flimsy pumps; he holds his handkerchief round his coat-collar; his gloves fall to the ground and he steps towards a muddy stream. A link-boy leans as if asleep under the next arch. Two bills are posted: Chelsea Watermains always charged F.P. 16. ft. and Madame Pasta's Benefit Night. Title from Mary Shelley's book, published 1826, cf. British Museum Satires No. 15341."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Last man
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text below title: Dish me! if I sha'nt be in a nice mess before I get to Joy's!!
Publisher:
Pub. June 1827 by T. Gillard, 40 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Covered walks, Arches, and Light fixtures
A three-quarters length image of a pretty woman as she washes clothes in a tub
Description:
Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: TJB [?] 1828.
"A stout lady pours tea on to a plate, missing the cup, in her amused astonishment at the appearance of her very fat and jovial husband who sits opposite her, wearing a hat burlesquing the French fashion, coat open over a wide expanse of horizontally striped waistcoat, and plain white trousers. She exclaims: Lord, my dear! the French folks have quite transmogrify'd you. What, is that a French collar? why, it sticks out like two large horns; and they've stuck a sugar-loaf on your head--and what have they been doing with your small cloaths? and where's your wig, my dear? He answers: O! all a mode! all a mode! His daughter, who leans on the back of her mother's chair, says with a quizzical smile: All a mode! all a mode! Why, Papa, you seem to have forgot all your English. You'll have all the customers take you for a French Mounseer. Both ladies are dressed in the fashion, with huge gigot sleeves. The daughter's dress is patterned with huge checks. Behind the traveller are his caped greatcoat, portmanteau, and a clipped poodle, surprised and resentful. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 15464."--British Museum online catalogue
"Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so-'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1822.
