Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1834]
Call Number:
834.00.00.24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger based on caption below image in center of sheet., Date of publication from unaltered impression in the Yale Center for British Art., Text following imprint: Also sold by T. Dewhurst, Manchester; T. Drake, Birmingham; R. Thorley, Bath; M.A. Organ, Bristol; Ross & Nightingale, Liverpool; &c &c &c., Numerous small designs on one sheet, some individually titled below., and Description based on imperfect impression; three areas of text below series title have been mostly or completely erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr
Subject (Topic):
Umbrellas, Boats, Headdresses, Carriages & coaches, Skeletons, Dogs, Peg legs, Amputees, Military uniforms, Rifles, Mirrors, Deer, Sleepwear, Turbans, Monuments & memorials, Birds of prey, Devil, Cats, and Carts & wagons
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Wash tubs -- Chairs: carved gothic chair -- Female dress: slippers -- Scrubbing brushes -- Medical procedures., and Window mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Wash tubs -- Chairs: carved gothic chair -- Female dress: slippers -- Scrubbing brushes -- Medical procedures., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 22.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1779]
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.00.00.03.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with the name of the racehorse in the title changed from "Bucephalus" to "Mambrino." See no. 4730 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4., Date of publication based on curator's comments in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Watermark: V.
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentotts, pickpockets, bishops, hunters, etc. Images are loosely arranged in three columns with the following headings at top (left to right): Hints to singers; A few favorite songs &c. &c.; Musical term's.
Description:
Title from text at top of design., "Price twopence"--Following publisher's statement and preceeding publication date in imprint., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.8 x 19 cm., Printed on wove paper; mounted to 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Full length depiction of the Duke of Wellington, in uniform with hat in his right hand and sword at his left side, left hand extended and a look of distress on his face
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the initials of unidentified printmaker "J.W.G." in lower right., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published by Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Distress, Daggers & swords, and Hats
Two women sit in chairs facing one another, discussing the animal costs of fashion. The woman on the left wears a bonnet and has one hand inside the large muff on her lap
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of lithographs published by W. Soffe: Whims & oddities., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 30.5 x 21 cm., Printed on wove paper., and Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
"A hopeful young girl wearing pattens, leaning confidently on the counter of a general shop, saying 'If you please Mr Tomkins to give my mother change for sixpence, and she will send you the sixpence next week.', the shop owner leaning down to her with a perplexed expression, his glasses on top of his head, a sign on the counter advertising 'Hunts match[...]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., With: What a treat!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
Subject (Topic):
Counters, Stores & shops, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Girls
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1823.
Call Number:
823.00.00.21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text within image., Henry Alken identified as both artist and printmaker. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1209.33-75., Plate from: Humourous specimens of riding, &c. &c. (London : Thomas McLean)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
A thin dandy chats with a rotund man who holds his belly with both hands. A restaurant under the sign "Williams's" is visible in the background on the left, through the window of which a man can be seen carving a roast
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark Street, Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 28.3 x 21 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of series title and number from top edge, and publisher's and printer's statements from lower edge.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark Street, Soho
Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to the front, wearing a long wig, landscape behind; before retouching
Description:
Title etched below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 332 x 237 mm, on sheet 484 x 347 mm.
Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to the front, wearing a long wig, landscape behind; before retouching
Description:
Title etched below image., State and publisher from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 107 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 33 x 23.4 cm.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted text below design: "As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day finding yourself suddenly obliged though your dancing days have "been long over, to lead outsides, cross over, foot it, and a variety of other steps and figures, with mad bulls for your partners., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "301" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: J Whatman 1822.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted text below design: "As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day finding yourself suddenly obliged though your dancing days have "been long over, to lead outsides, cross over, foot it, and a variety of other steps and figures, with mad bulls for your partners., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "301" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 1 in volume 5.
A man holding a warming pan and a bottle converses with a woman inside a home. An open door is seen on the left; a birdcage and a picture hang on the wall in the background
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of lithographs published by W. Soffe: Whims & oddities., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31.1 x 22 cm., Printed on wove paper., and Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Doors & doorways, Bottles, and Birdcages
"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, carelessly tilting his can."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Reissue of a plate in a series that was originally published by G. Humphrey in October 1821. For the first plate of the original issue of the series, see no. 14289 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Street lights, Oil cans, Ladders, and Doors & doorways
An intoxicated man in tattered clothing leans against a wooden post on the street. He looks over at a woman to the left, also intoxicated, who sits on the ground. An article of the woman's clothing is caught on the post and is hanging off her shoulder
Alternative Title:
Vy Sarah your drunk! I'm quite asham'd o'you
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Title continues: ... Vell vots the odds, as long as you'r happy.
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what makes you Muzzle Brutus? Vy he's such a beggar for grub, he'd spile his shape in 5 minnits if it was off, and he only got sight of a butcher's shop
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. G.S. Tregear was located at 123 Cheapside from 1828 to 1833, moving to 96 Cheapside in 1834; see British Museum online catalogue., and Glued (heavily applied) onto yellow album paper and mounted to: 40 x 29 cm.
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 December 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In his kitchen, the angry sultan stands at right with a stick in his hand, ready to swing for the figure in the fireplace at left, which is actually the body of a man suspended by loops of rope under his arms, the sultan's wife standing behind at right; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Decr. 24, 1785, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Sultans, Anger, Kitchens, Staffs (Sticks), and Fireplaces
"Satire on horse-dealing: a dealer stands beside a horse in poor condition on which sits a child, probably his son; potential customers examine the horse's teeth and hind hoof; the dealer's patter is reproduced below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Bottom half of plate consists of a speech bubble (resembling a scroll at bottom) emanating from the mouth of a horse trader; the seventeen lines spoken by him in praise of the horse begin: Now hark you me now Master, you shall have him for five pounds; I never saw ne'er a horse for the money that cou'd go his paces better nor this horse in all my born days ..., Temporary local subject terms: Bargaining: Smithfield bargain., Watermark., and Mounted to 34 x 41 cm.
Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking from a jug seated on a stool at a table under a tree
Alternative Title:
Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
Description:
Title etched below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Book 3rd. Ch: 13th.", "Vol. I. p. 166"--Lower left, below image., and On page 87 in volume 1. Trimmed to plate mark 260 x 175 mm.
Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking from a jug seated on a stool at a table under a tree
Alternative Title:
Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
Description:
Title etched below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Book 3rd. Ch: 13th.", and "Vol. I. p. 166"--Lower left, below image.
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Alternative Title:
Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella vindicating herself and Don Quixote: The funeral of Chrysostom
Description:
Title etched below image., Added titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Vol. I, p. 71"--Lower left, below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 86 in volume 1. Plate mark 157 x 123 mm.
An illustration for Chapter 6 (not Chapter 5) depicts the scene at the end of Marcella's speech
Alternative Title:
Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella vindicating herself and Don Quixote: The funeral of Chrysostom
Description:
Title etched below image., Added titles, state, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Vol. I, p. 71"--Lower left, below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[February 1831]
Call Number:
831.02.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Grey as schoolmaster stands on a low dais in profile to the right, addressing nine schoolboys (Tories); he holds an open book, 'Reformers First Primer', and leans on his desk, saying, 'Say after Me I Shou'd Reform Thou Shoudst Reform He Shoud Reform We Shou'd Reform You Shou'd Reform They Shou'd Reform'. Behind him is the front portion of an ornate chair, as in the French print. Brougham stands full-face, as usher, holding a big birch-rod (see British Museum Satires No. 15535). Four pupils sit on the front bench behind them is another row of four; Wellington stands behind on a stool (invisible) wearing a fool's cap, like an extinguisher, decorated with bells. He holds a torn primer, and with his fingers to his mouth says 'I Can't Reform'. Peel is the only boy who looks at Grey. The pupils are ill-drawn and badly characterized; two are Lyndhurst and Goulburn, wearing spectacles. All (except Lyndhurst, who is in wig and gown) wear boyish dress, with white neck-frills or collars, some wearing pinafores."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conjugation of the verb To reform
Description:
Title from text below image., Digit "3" in year "1831" in imprint is printed backwards., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 213.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1831 by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lecterns, Teachers, Books, Reform, Students, Chairs, and Fools' caps
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two groups of tailors battle each other. The group on the left, fighting under the "Journeymen Tailors Union for a fair renumeration of labour" banner, charge forward riding geese and using scissors as weapons; additional members fire bows and arrows from towers. The group on the right, fighting under the "Union of Master Tailors for a coninuance of tyranny low wages & profits 100 percent" banner, are well dressed and hang back in a defensive position; they use firearms, swords, and a shield bearing a pound sign ("£") as weapons
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text following title: When snip meets snip then comes the tug of war!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Quixote and Sancho meet the goatherder and his goat on a path under a large rock formation
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote and the knight of the rock
Description:
Title engraved below image., Title from Paulson: Don Quixote and the knight of the rock., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Book 3rd, Ch: 9th"--Below title., "Vol. I. p. 140"--Below image, lower left., and On page 87 in volume 1. Trimmed to plate mark: 245 x 183 mm.
Quixote and Sancho meet the goatherder and his goat on a path under a large rock formation
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote and the knight of the rock
Description:
Title engraved below image., Title from Paulson: Don Quixote and the knight of the rock., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Book 3rd, Ch: 9th"--Below title., and "Vol. I. p. 140"--Below image, lower left.
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 25 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 29.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 23.2 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Sheet trimmed within plate mark, Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
A well dressed man, holding a walking stick up to his mouth, converses with another man who is holding a hoe; the latter tips his hat and winks at the former
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., One in a series of prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31 x 23 cm., Printed on wove paper., and Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
A homely, heavy-set girl (left) sits on a chair while an artist in spectacles (right) sits and sketches her in profile while her coarse mother in a mop cap smiles at the artist who looks back in surprise at her comment to him. Below are her words: "You see my dartur vears her hair like the queen ...". Possibly a satire directed at the new Queen, Victoria
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the monogram of Henry Heath in lower right., Date of publication based on the year of succession to the throne of Victoria, who is likely the "Queen" mentioned in the title., Sheet trimmed with possible loss of series title and/or imprint statement., 1 print : lithograph ; irregular sheet 16.4 x 15 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., and Sheet has been trimmed close to image with loss of background portions of the design. Text below image has been clipped and pasted below trimmed image, the whole mounted on a piece of black paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Subject (Topic):
Daughters, Mothers, Painters (Artists), and Caricatures
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 250 x 305 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 30.7 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 35.2 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 56 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
