In a tavern, sailors in uniform are carousing; one dances with a woman in the centre, as another plays a violin on the left in front of diamond-patterned casement windows; others are drinking (mugs in hand) or smoking clay pipes. A couple kiss and embrace in the background. A ship model hangs from the ceiling. A fat dog (or cat?) lies at the feet of the musician
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verses. Missing text and sheet dimensions supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1068., Below title is a song of sixty-nine lines in three columns 'A Sailor's life's a life of woe, ... And swig the flowing Can., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Eating & drinking, Kissing, Model ships, Musicians, Sailors, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Volume 2, page 33. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Volume 2, page
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of ladies and gentlemen in fashionable dress promenading under tall leafy trees. Two ladies sitting on the left while a man offers them a dish of fruit; the Prince of Wales in a tricorn hat walking on the right with a lady on each arm; the lady on his left wearing three-feathers in her hat; a group of musicians on the far left, one playing a small trumpet; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gardens of Carlton House with Neapolitan ballad singers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker attributions to Dickinson and Bartolozzi from the British Museum online catalogue, where it is noted that Bartolozzi engraved the faces of the figures only; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2342., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Dedication below title: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, this print from the original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr., in the possession of His Ronal [sic] Highness, is by permission dedicated by His Royal Highness's most faithfull servant, W. Dickinkinson [sic]., and Mounted on page 33 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 10th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 Bond Street, & W. Austin, drawing master, St. James Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Estates, Trees, Music ensembles, Musicians, and Trumpets
Volume 2, page 33. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Volume 2, page
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of ladies and gentlemen in fashionable dress promenading under tall leafy trees. Two ladies sitting on the left while a man offers them a dish of fruit; the Prince of Wales in a tricorn hat walking on the right with a lady on each arm; the lady on his left wearing three-feathers in her hat; a group of musicians on the far left, one playing a small trumpet; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gardens of Carlton House with Neapolitan ballad singers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker attributions to Dickinson and Bartolozzi from the British Museum online catalogue, where it is noted that Bartolozzi engraved the faces of the figures only; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2342., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Dedication below title: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, this print from the original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr., in the possession of His Ronal [sic] Highness, is by permission dedicated by His Royal Highness's most faithfull servant, W. Dickinkinson [sic]., Mounted on page 103 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and 1 print : stipple engraving and engraving in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 50.8 x 65.6 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 10th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 Bond Street, & W. Austin, drawing master, St. James Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Estates, Trees, Music ensembles, Musicians, and Trumpets
Two goats in fine dress dance together, accompanied by two musicians playing an oboe(?) and a bass. In the right foreground is a large drum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 27 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Dancers, Goats, Monkeys, Minuets, and Musicians
"Satire on foreign opera singers based on "The Beggar's Opera Burlesqued"; animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage with musicians and audience in the foreground; beyond, to left, theatre boxes with an audience of ladies and below a wall hung with ballads against which two men urinate and defecate; to right, a conventional stage scene; an angel carrying a ribbon lettered "Harmony" flies off at top right. On either side hang scrolls listing the presents given to Farinelli, copied from Hogarth's Rake's progress, Plate 2; ten lines of verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Italian eunuch's glory
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now dismissed. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Given me by the Revd Dr. Lort., and On page 49 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to:
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
A girl in peasant dress shown full length holds a hurdy-gurdy or vielle suspended round her neck. She wears a neckless and pinned at her breast, a nosegay of flowers. Her face is in profile as she turns her head to the right away from the viewer
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Madlle. Heinel in the character of a sultana., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Organ grinders
"Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Willimott, Robert, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.04.00.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Brittanniais happy prospect and Britannia's happy prospect
Description:
Title from item., Publication attributed in an unverified card catalog record to Edwards & Darly, Acorn, at Hungerford Market., Temporary local subject terms: Travesties: military -- Military uniforms: recruiting sergeant's uniform -- Recruit's uniform -- Royal drum -- Paddle -- Drummer -- Bribery -- Ribands -- Protest against militia -- Bombshelled globe -- Temples -- Ireland: reversion -- Statues: equestrian statue -- Emblems: white horse of Hanover -- Cricket-bat -- Altar -- Halberd -- Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, 1713-1802 -- Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1452-1520: travesties., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
To be had facing Hungerfd. Market, Strand
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.04.00.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire lampooning the attempt by Henry Fox to form a ministry, with Fox leading a recuiting party
Alternative Title:
Brittanniais happy prospect and Britannia's happy prospect
Description:
Title from item., Another state, without publication line. Cf. No. 3581 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Travesties: military -- Military uniforms: recruiting sergeant's uniform -- Military uniforms: recruit's uniform -- Paddle -- Bribery -- Ribands -- Protest against militia -- Bombshelled globe -- Temples -- Ireland: reversion -- Emblems: white horse of Hanover -- Cricket-bat -- Altar -- Halberd -- Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1452-1520: travesties.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, Mendip, Welbore Ellis, Baron, 1713-1802, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Equestrian statues, Drums (Musical instruments), and Musicians
Brittannias happy prospect and Britannia's happy prospect
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '73' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762. In a series of one hundred and twelve ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1763]., Reduced and reversed copy of No. 3581 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Printmaker of the original identified by Stephens as Lord Townshend., Temporary local subject terms: Travesties: military -- Paddle -- Bribery -- Ribands -- Protest against militia -- Bombshelled globe -- Temples -- Ireland: reversion -- Statues: equestrian statue -- Emblems: white horse of Hanover -- Cricket-bat -- Altar -- Halberd -- Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, 1713-1802 -- Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1452-1520: travesties., and Mounted to 19 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Musicians, and Musical instruments
