Plate from 'Town Talk', iv. 247. A procession of coaches through 'Cavendish Square', the houses of which form a background, together with a street which recedes in perspective on the left. The foremost coach (right) has a roof shaped like a Chinese pagoda and decorated with bells; on the apex is a seat occupied by an ape, dressed as a man, who rings a handbell and blows a horn. Bells are attached to the springs of the coach. The arms, surmounted by a coronet, are crossed whips, the crest a fool's head. A man seated on the box turns to the driver to say: "No bad scheme of Sr Harry's to get the Amateur [Coates] to perform today! tolerable attendance." The driver wears a conical hat with a vast brim, manifold capes, and a large nosegay, with top-boots. Two servants sit in the rumble; one points to the ape, saying, "What do you think Tom of our new fellow Servant! did Master get him from Bond Street." The other answers: "Oh No! hes not one of the Loungers [see No. 8377, &c.] Master had him from Exeter Change [menagerie] he has been well educated you see." The second equipage is the odd-shaped curricle of 'Romeo' Coates, see No. 11768, &c., drawn by four horses, whose harness, like the curricle, is decorated with cocks. He is dressed as Lothario, see No. 11769, &c., with three huge feathers towering from his hat. He says: "I scorn that odious uniform which would hide the graces of my form and those detestable boots would spoil a most delectable leg!--Bless us! how we draw, out of the theatre as well as in." The following coach is on the extreme left; its roof is a four-sided pinnacle topped with a spike; the driver is dressed like the man on the first coach. He says (of Coates): "I'll back him to spar with Molineaux at St Martins Court for the benefit of Carter." The man beside him answers: "Aye my Lord! or I'll take the chance of the day for my debt, and remove the execution from your carriage and horses." A man on horseback in the background shouts: "your lordship had better take the Opera House, as it will be for a charitable purpose." The road is crowded with spectators many of whom wave their hats. Tiny coaches proceed along the Square from right to left, to join the procession. In the foreground is a row of well-dressed spectators in back view. Shouts rise from the distant crowd: "The Hobbies! The Hobbies"; "Cock a-doodle do"; "The Monologue"; "Bravo Romeo." On the extreme right is the gilt equestrian statue of the Duke of Cumberland, erected in 1770.--British Museum onlne catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hints for a four in hand exhibition
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Coaches -- Bells -- Horns., and In contemporary hand, in ink at top of print: 257.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st 1813 by the Proprietor of Town Talk
Subject (Name):
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848 and Peyton, Henry, Sir, fl. 1813
Four scenes of various animals in human situations: Carriage riding; a dog facing a rooster; a monkey addressing a duck and her duckings; a fox in a chicken coop
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Chickens, Dogs, Ducks, Foxes, and Monkeys
A monkey wearing a military uniform and holding a sword and a flag "Volunteer cavalry" sits astride an ass. From a basket hanging from the saddle hang a portrait of Fox with the caption "In place" and a portrait of Fox with the words "Out of place"; below the portraits can be seen a papers, the top the words "Tantararara rogues all" . The ass stands in a trunk with bundles of newspapers and paper hanging off the sides or in the lid, identified with the words: Telegraph, Parliament speeches, Gazettes extraordinary, Fashionable occurrences, Independent [sic] elections, Law suits. On the ground around the trunk are papers with titles: Speech of Mr. Deputy Did[...], 20 s. notes, Examination of Faro's daughters before the Justice
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: I Taylor 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1797, 12 Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Baskets, Donkeys, Military uniforms, Monkeys, and Newspapers
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text arranged on both sides of title: The lovely stranger stands confest a maid in all her charms., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Ugliness, Pets, Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Monkeys
Title from caption below images., Questionable attribution to I. Cruikshank from unverified data in local card catalog record., Design consists of eight groups of figures in two rows, with captions etched below each group and dialogue etched above some figures., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Guns -- Hunting -- Racing., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 6, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 28.6 x 21.2 cm.
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155.
"Street scene. The showman (right) stands in profile to the right looking up at Punch and Judy who perform on their tiny stage, the supports of which are covered by a checked material. A monkey wearing a cocked hat and coat stands on his shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple-woman. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy in the foreground on the extreme right. The spectators gaze up intensely amused: A milkman (left), his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey dressed as a woman is drinking. A young woman holds out a hat for coins, while she picks the pocket of a spectator. A third monkey crouches on the ground. Beneath the title: 'Now 's the Time for Mirth & Glee, - Sing & Laugh & Dance with me.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punch's puppet show
Description:
Title below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below title: Now's the time for mirth & glee ..., Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner., and One of a series of Drolls.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Criminals, Crowds, Dogs, Milkmen, Monkeys, Organ grinders, Peddlers, Puppet shows, Spectators, and Street vendors
