Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Published Jany. 1st, 1795 by James Wales of Bombay at Mr. R. Cribbs, Carver & Gilder 288 Holborn, London
Title from from dialogue etched below image., Publisher's announcement following imprint: ... sole publisher of W. Heath etching., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A slender man (left) reading a book complains to a second man (right) sitting opposite him, "Dangit sir I wish you would just blow your nose". The second man, who is very fat and has a very large, bulbous and ruddy nose that extends over the first man's book, replies, "Blow it your self it is as near you as it is me." They sit on upholstered chairs under a window in a small space, the large man's legs positioned between the thin man's two legs
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Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record and based on costume., Caption continues: ... Blow it your self it is as near you as it is to me., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Whole length caricature portrait of a man sitting on a four-legged stool in profile to the right. He has a large sharp nose. In his left hand he holds a paper inscribed "Newgate Contract". On the ground are two papers, one inscribed "To Mr Nic", the other, "Speech agt City Place Bill". He is plainly and neatly dressed, his wig in a tight pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Attributed to Mary Darly in dealer's description., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue. Based on the building of new Newgate Prison which began in 1770 and was completed after 1780., The figure in the print is identified on the British Museum impression, "Sharp, an ironmonder in Leadenhall Street." The London directory for 1780 James Sharpe, Ironmonger is at 15 Leadenhall Street., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of artist statement from lower left corner. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.13117.
"A close-up view of the heads of a man and woman asleep in bed, with their arms round each other. They have grotesquely long and turned-up noses. Similar in character to British Museum satires nos. 11128-30."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Octob. 1811 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur St.
Watercolor depicting a man placing his elongated nose against an active grinding wheel that he turns with his right hand. A visual pun on the phrase " Put one's nose to the grindstone".
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Title from pen and black ink inscribed caption below image. and Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A separate sheet with four lines of verse in letterpress is pasted beneath title: Now the length and the shape of your husband's nose is a thing that don't signify ..., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A man with a large nose and holding a walking stick walks arm-in-arm with a fashionably dressed young lady who holds a umbrella over her head. A woman holding the hands of two children walk toward them from the right; they all wear hats and the woman has her nose in the air. Behind the couple (left) is a man who holds a basket and makes a mocking gesture at the couple
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Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: Now, whether his nose had two corners or three, unlucky! I did not heed them but I thought, form its length, the better 'twould be as a handle by which to lead him., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., 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):
Children, Couples, Hats, Noses, Teasing, Umbrellas, and Walking
