In an oval frame, a young woman facing left, wears a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with flowers, a necklace of several strands of beads, and a scarf loosely draped around her shoulder
Description:
Title from item. and Scratch-letter state before inscription.
Publisher:
Published 30 of July 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Leaf 70. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A house is attacked while a lady and a young girl sleep on a couch at center. Three bandits wield weapons, and one takes hold of the necklace of the lady. Another group of armed gentleman approach from the stairs at right."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Engraved after the painting "1er Scène de voleurs" by Louis Léopold Boilly, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1815, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1612., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally issued without title; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 810.00.00.59. This untitled state might be the plate described under the name "Banditti" in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 297., and On leaf 70 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Robberies, Firearms, Sofas, and Necklaces
The interior of a jeweller's shop, indicated only by three necklaces festooned on the wall and by a door giving on to the street. A lady sits between two men; one (left) points insinuatingly to a box of ear-rings which he holds, the other applies a boring instrument to her left ear. To her left, a dog barks as he looks up at her startled face. Behind, a weeping schoolboy with a bag of books is being birched by a young woman. Through the door are seen a Highlander blowing bagpipes and a milkmaid screaming for custom
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and One of a series of 'Drolls.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Octr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bagpipes, Dairy workers, Earrings, Jewelers, Jewelry stores, Necklaces, School children, Women, and Young adults
"Two profile heads in proximity. A poor woman wearing a plain straw hat (right) looks with anxious supplication at the hideous face of a woman wearing vulgar finery and jewelry, her hands in a muff. The latter scowls contemptuously, with closed eyes. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old Dowager meets a poor relation.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and plate number etched above image., "No. 15.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old dowager meets a poor relation., State without plate number., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.8 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Earrings, Muffs, Necklaces, Pleading (Begging), and Widows
Half-length portrait in an oval frame, a young woman turned slightly left, facing front, wears a black veil over head and shoulders. She wears a pearl earring and necklace of several strands of beads (pearls?).
Alternative Title:
Venetian lady in the Sindall dress
Description:
Title from item. and Scratched-letter state of: A Venetian lady in the Sindall dress.
Publisher:
Publish'd 30 of July 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs., Mounted on page 49 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs.
