Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[6 March 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.03.06.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on French pretensions: a coachman standing in profile to left; he has a curled moustache, laced coat and a large bag wig, and holds a long whip and taking snuff."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 6th March 1772 by I. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Four men, raffishly prosperous, dance forward together in a line, three in tipsy joviality, one dragged forward, ill and dejected. The Irishman and Englishman have their arms entwined, one flourishes a cane, the other a handkerchief. The melancholy Scot holds the Englishman's coat-tail. The jovial Welshman takes the Scot's left arm, waving his hat. Each wears, in top-hat and coat, his national flower: shamrock, rose, thistle, leek. The Scot wears quasi-tartan trousers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish
"A Paris street. A young and handsome English couple walk arm-in-arm (right to left), the man well-dressed in top-hat, tail-coat, breeches, and top-boots, the lady simply and elegantly dressed in a high-waisted gown and plain bonnet. Four Parisiennes, ugly, bedizened, over-dressed, and round-shouldered, point and jeer. One holds by the hand a little girl, also pointing. A man, dishevelled and vulgarly smart, stares over his shoulder"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Evidence of imprint statement modifaction on plate. Cf. British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, City & town life, and Clothing & dress
A caricatured figure of a Chinese man with a pagoda-style hat, long whiskers, and costume, with Chinese language approximated in comical fashion
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximations of Chinese characters precede each line of text., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Print numbered in pencil in upper right corner: 1.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '230' in lower right corner., Three lines of text below title: Frenchman: begar my country be ver de ver in de invention of de modes and de fashions ..., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Englishmen -- Male dress: French, 1799.
Publisher:
Published April 8th 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
New way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Date derived from George IV's date of death., Place of publication derived from street address., Below title: Dedicated to all fashionable Equestrians afflicted with that Malady!, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sidebotham 96 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
Page 181. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French officer and English alehouse man and Officer francois / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Officer francois, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 181 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Drinking vessels, and Obesity
"A plainly dressed man with lank hair falling on his shoulders, bends over a dog, placing his left hand on the head of the trustful animal. With a large brush he applies a smoking liquid to its side saying, "Come here poor Dog! Thee shalt not say I called thee names, or beat thee, for that would be cruel!! but I will anoint thee with Oil, and moisten thy sides with my pure Linnement." The scene is in a yard with a high paling, outside an open door leading to the dispensing-room of the Quaker, evidently an apothecary. Just within the room is a large smoking jar of 'Oil of Vitriol'; on the door-step is a dish of smoking vitriol. Above are the neatly ranged jars, bottles, and drawers of an apothecary, with a pestle and mortar. A woman in an upper window of an adjacent house looks down into the yard; she shouts: "Ah Obadiah, that decietfull whining Cant, to allure the poor Animal, in order to inflict the most Diabolical unheard of Cruelty on him, shall not go unpunished"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mercifull example of Quaerism at Brighton and Merciful example of Quakerism at Brighton
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: NB. the side of the poor animal was entirely burned through the next day and his bowels actuall [sic] fell out on the ground., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Ms. note in pencil below plate line.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Dogs, Drugstores, Ethnic stereotypes, and Punishment & torture
"The Prince of Orange (left), dressed like a Dutchman in (English) caricature, kneels with arms extended imploringly at the feet of Princess Charlotte (a good portrait). He wears Apollo's wreath, decorated with small oranges, before him is his clumsy flower-pot hat, containing a paper: 'Rules for the game of ye Dutch Pins' (ninepins); beside this is a Jews' harp, a degraded form of Apollo's lyre. His breeches are enormously bulky, and a tobacco-pipe projects from a pocket. He sings: "Lovely Maid, assuage my Anguish! At your feet your true love sighs; Do not let your Dutchman languish, If you frown, alas he dies!" She answers, pointing to his breeches: "From what I feel, and what I see, There's nought about you that bewitches; Unless indeed a charm may be In a Dutchman's great big breeches!!!" She stands beside a table (right) at which she has been sitting. On this are her painting materials, pencil, brushes, cakes of water-colour, porcelain palette, and jar of water, with an open box. Her painting is on a sloping board: a fat Dutchman trudges off, a bundle at his back, in the direction of a sign-post pointing 'To Holland'; he grasps his head despairingly. Behind the Prince a French window with draped curtains gives on to a small balcony. By the window are flowering plants in a jardinière; a sofa stands against the wall; a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1814, by Wm. Holland, 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817., and William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849.
