Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A charming lady, elegantly dressed, plays the harp and sings close to her unconscious husband, asleep in a stiff arm-chair. Pose and expression are both provoked and provocative. Behind her (right) is a square piano with an open music-book, at her fe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Sleeping, Chairs, Harps, Stringed instruments, Pianos, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
"A lady, young and beautiful, sits in an arm-chair, her head in profile to the left, gazing at her reflection in a standing pier-glass. She wears a dress cut very low, with short puffed sleeves, a small hat supporting two tall feathers and showing cur...
Alternative Title:
Looking glass in favor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Mirrors, Feathers, Draperies, Umbrellas, and Harps
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, anothe...
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
A writing sheet engraved with vignettes and the large interior space left blank. At the top is a scene with a throne on a platform in the center at the top of a pie-shaped set of stairs with angels standing along the edges on both the right and the le...
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, h...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, h...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
"Pitt's 'Propositions' for freedom of commerce between England and Ireland are supported on an Irish harp which rests on a rectangular framework above a fire which is being made to blaze by North and Fox. North (left, as Boreas), on hands and knees, h...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1785 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):
Resolutions, Politics and government, Bellows, Bonfires, Harps, and Musical instruments
