Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., One line of text within design: This horse is certainly an astronomer! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: riding habit., 1 print : etcing and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
"Three men, two on horseback, wearing new-fashioned hats. The centre figure is seen in back view on horseback, he wears a large hat with a high cylindrical crown round which are spaced six hat-bands. In the foreground (right) is a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat whose crown is shaped like an inverted flower-pot. He is looking through a small telescope. These two both carry knotted sticks. The third man who is cantering (left to right) in the middle distance (left) wears a similar hat. All three wear spurred top-boots in the fashion of the moment, with very long tops descending well below the calf of the leg."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's dates from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to design and into imprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1781 by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street, London
Verse - "Here I must tell the praise of worthy Whit-"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In this edition, the text is in four columns, with the title above the first two columns. There are four woodcuts. The first and second woodcuts are above their respective columns. The third woodcut is located in the middle of the third column. The fourth woodcut is located near the top of the fourth column., Mounted on leaf 65. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
A plate with four images etched for the publication: Annals of sporting by Caleb Quizem, Esqr. In the upper left, the image for the etched title page with an image of a man falling from a winged horse; upper right, a portrait of Caleb Quizem, Esqr. sitting in an armchair wtih a quizzing glass in his right hand, two books on the table beside him along with a quill pen and ink stand and on the wall a picture of a man "Geoffey Cambr[..] who also sits in an armchair and his gouty foot on a stool; lower left, image of a man on horseback (rear view) with a cannon above and a caption "The true method of sitting a horse mathematically delineated."; lower right image, an image at 90 degrees to the other images with a man mid-flight having been thrown from his horse, having failed to jump a gate. Another rider looks on in horror (right) and a peasant also with a look of horror looks on from the road (left). With caption above, "How to vault from the saddle" and signed "Woodward del. ; Rowlandson fect."
Description:
Title from text heading vignette in left panel., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below vignette in left panel: The courtier is thrown in pursuit of his game, the poets too often laid low..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Trimmed to two top images only; lower two images lacking., and Print numbered in ms. along the upper edge: 100.
A plate with four images etched for the publication: Annals of sporting by Caleb Quizem, Esqr. In the upper left, the image for the etched title page with an image of a man falling from a winged horse; upper right, a portrait of Caleb Quizem, Esqr. sitting in an armchair wtih a quizzing glass in his right hand, two books on the table beside him along with a quill pen and ink stand and on the wall a picture of a man "Geoffey Cambr[..] who also sits in an armchair and his gouty foot on a stool; lower left, image of a man on horseback (rear view) with a cannon above and a caption "The true method of sitting a horse mathematically delineated."; lower right image, an image at 90 degrees to the other images with a man mid-flight having been thrown from his horse, having failed to jump a gate. Another rider looks on in horror (right) and a peasant also with a look of horror looks on from the road (left). With caption above, "How to vault from the saddle" and signed "Woodward del. ; Rowlandson fect."
Description:
Title from text heading vignette in left panel., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below vignette in left panel: The courtier is thrown in pursuit of his game, the poets too often laid low..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed resulting in loss of plate mark on top and sides of illustration., Illustration to ballad Bachelors' Hall written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The Oddities. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, price 6d. plain, 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Greenwich Pensioner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibdin and others. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly, may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., and Temporary local subject terms: Huntsmen -- Buildings: country houses -- Architectural details: outdoor stairway to country house -- Male costume: riding costume, 1791 -- Bachelors -- Horse whips -- Hunting horns.
Publisher:
Pub. Aprill [sic] 30, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, and Musical entertainments
Leaf 42. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady and gentleman are enjoying an equestrian promenade, too busily engaged in flirting to notice that their horses are riding over some wandering pigs. A Jew is in a chaise, taking his pleasure in the air; the fair Jewess, his wife, is driving, the rest of their family are by their side. A stout elderly volunteer in his uniform is out for exercise and relaxation, mounted on a heavy horse from the cart, ridden with blinkers."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1799, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 372., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 42 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Horseback riding, Carriages & coaches, Swine, Dogs, and Military uniforms
Title etched below image., Fifth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, Horseback riding, Carriages & coaches, Crutches, Military uniforms, and British
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 1st, 1771.
Call Number:
Bunbury 771.07.01.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 22. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French courier rides a galloping post-horse to the left while raising his whip; a building with the sign "Poste Royale" is visible in the background
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., T. Scratchley is the pseudonym of Matthias Darly., One of several prints after Bunbury of similar design and varying size. See no. 5056 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with initials G.R. below.
