A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Alternative Title:
Cudgeller caught
Description:
Title from item., Restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Ediburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Restrike of no. 6691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Title etched above image., Text below image: Can such things be! and overcome us like a summer's cloud, without our special wonder? ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 4, 1827, by J. Fairbourn [sic], Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Lord North, on the left, and Charles Fox, in dressing gowns and night caps, sit in armchairs as invalids with a melancholy expression on their faces. They are approached from the right by a man who carries two soup bowls filled with frogs. One frog is falling to the ground, two more sit on the floor. He is the Duc de Bouillon who, while in England, called himself Mr. Godfrey and showed interest in Foxite politics
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted to 40 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aprill 7, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bouillon, Godefroi-Charles-Henri de la Tour-d'Auvergne, Duc de, 1728-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Frogs, Chairs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Third in a series of three companion prints; the two others: "The happy escape, or arch-runaways" and The vain pursuit.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Harriet Archer Clive, fl. 1788 -- Anne Archer Musgrave, fli. 1788 -- Maria Elizabeth Archer Howard, d. 1789 -- Sarah Archer Windsor Amherst, Countess of Amherst, 1762-1838.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1788, by S.W. Fores, saterist [sic], No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Plymouth, Other Hickman Windsor, Earl of, 1751-1799 and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
"Satire; a country squire in a bedroom, sitting on the left and holding out strips of paper to two prostitutes who draw lots for him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Timothy Thicketts first reel to London and Beauties of Kings place
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Interiors, Beds, Clothing & dress, and Hats
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here vulgar nature plays her courser part. And eyes speak out the language of [the] heart ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Drinking vessels, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Rings, and Wine
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here vulgar nature plays her courser part. And eyes speak out the language of [the] heart ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 21.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text below image., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Drinking vessels, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Rings, and Wine
"A young woman with hair dressed high and a large hat, sitting in a garden holding up a sheet of music (titled Sweet Echo; with a waterfall on the right flowing into a stream running past her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate line.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, map & printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gardens, Hats, Music, Waterfalls, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and turn out mucle southern loons. A crowd mostly wearing Scotch plaid assemble on a mountebank's stage, bowing to him. Behind a line of curtains suggest a bed and a box of treasure on the floor. Lord Bute is the charlatan and stands holding money bags in each hand. A middle aged woman in a Welsh hat (the Princess of Wales) looks from between the curtains and listens with pleasure to the charlatan. The zany of the quack is a gaunt man in a Scotch plaid dressing gown and a tall fool's cap and holding a copy of "The Briton" under his arm and a horn in his girdle
Alternative Title:
Scotch quack
Description:
Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '20' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. 5th ed. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
