"William IV rides (left to right) on a country road, with a large document under his arm: 'Plan Bridge over Canal for Public'; Wellington sits insecurely behind the saddle. Both are in civilian dress. The King: 'Now I've got him up behind I'll just do as I like'. Wellington (slyly): 'This is a very bad Seat, not such a one as I have been used to lately. I am afraid I shall be off.--Open the Park indeed for the Public: I don't like giving way to the Public!!!' A signpost (left) points (right) 'To Holland House'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
When 2 ride upon one horse one must ride behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Offsetting on verso. Paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827."
Publisher:
Published 1830 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Documents, Dirt roads, and Traffic signs & signals
Title from caption below image., Three lines of dialogue below title: 1. I'm sorry to say your candles burn down the middle, and then they burn no longer! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A woman sits on the lap of a man as they embrass and kiss as the chair that he sits on topples over. They sit in a parlor with ornately designed rug
Alternative Title:
View of Cardigan and Pastime in York Street
Description:
Title and imprint from caption written in ms. below image., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1821.
Publisher:
Pub. by Keys, 23 Upper Mary-le bone St., Portland Place, for the proprietor
Subject (Name):
Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of, 1797-1868
Title devised by cataloger; series title and number etched above image., Printmaker from signature on another print in the series., Date of publication from description in the British Museum online catalogue of another print in the series., Ten designs on one plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Number "3" in title numbering has been erased from sheet and a "1" written in its place.
"Portrait of George Morland; half length, to the left, holding drawing of woman, head turned to look at viewer; after Muller; illustration to Cunningham's 'Lives of the Painters' (London: 1830)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state
Description:
Title from published state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on published state: Robt. Muller ; W.C. Edwards., Proof before letters. For the published state with the imprint "London, Published by John Murray, Albemarle St., 1830," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.30.58., Proof state of a plate from: Cunningham, A. The lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects. London : J. Murray, 1830-39 (v. 2, opposite page 222)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 687 (leaf numbered '130' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
A semi-comic gift card showing the eight stages of matrimony: Possession, Rumination, Alteration, Irritation, Disputation, Desperation, Detestation, and Separation. Each stage is described with four lines of verse and with vignette scenes of a husband and wife
Alternative Title:
Possession
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date conjectured from style of dress., and Issued with two blue bows at the top, right and left.
"Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
Description:
Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet., Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Proof before letters?, Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774,
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, British, and Military uniforms
Title implied by image., Below title: The pregudice [sic] goes very strongly in favour of wearing a nose., Text within image: Proboscis, snout, beak, smeller., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1830 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, sole publisher of W. Heath's etchings
Title from manuscript note below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printd. & published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton St., Covt. Gden
