Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1822.
Call Number:
Maidment AL415 no. 1 Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading. [Upper left]: An actress reacts dramatically to a statement from a theater manager. [Upper right]: Seasick passengers slumped over on a table an...
[Top image]: "Satire on Gay's "Beggar's Opera". In the foreground a group of animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage beneath which Apollo and a muse are lying, a lyre and guitar beside them. In front of ...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Published by G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Thurmond, John, active 1724-1749., and Wilks, Robert, 1665?-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Humor, Animals in human situations, Musicians, Opera singers, Clowns, and Comedies
In the weaving shop on the right Mr. West stands with the apprentice Goodchild on a raised platform, his arm resting casually on the young man's shoulder. Goodchild holds a book, a purse, and a set of keys. The two gloves on the desk are shown claspin...
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice a favourite and entrusted by his master
"A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Street lights, Oil cans, Ladders, and Doors & doorways
"A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Street lights, Oil cans, Ladders, and Doors & doorways
"Talleyrand, using a stick, hobbles along (left to right). His club-foot is not shown as in caricatures by Gillray and others. Palmerston, very erect, walks beside but slightly behind him, his left arm in the other's crooked right arm; he stares befor...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by A. Ducôté, succr. to C. Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 and Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ambassadors, French, Government officials, British, and Staffs (Sticks)