Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
"A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Transmutation of sexes
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cross dressing, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Boudoirs, Tableware, Furniture, Pets, and Clothing & dress
A large stout man, with an expression of resignation on his face, walking between village houses, staggers under the weight of a drunken woman reposing on his back, a glass marked 'gin' in her raised right hand, her bosom exposed. On her lap sits a monkey holding on to the man's wig and thus pulling it off his head. A magpie is sitting on monkey's shoulders. Around the man's neck is a heavy chain with a huge padlock inscribed 'wedlock' hanging in the center. Behind the group, from a pigsty attached to the house on the left and inscribed, 'She is as drunk as David's sow' a pig sticks out its head. From the roof of the same house is suspended a sighboard showing two cats and decorated at top with bull's horns. Above the horns is an inscription, 'The Christian mans arms, or, the cuckolds fortune.'
Alternative Title:
Matrimony
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: A monkey, a magpuye & wife, is the true emblem of strife ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book., On leaf 17., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
At one end of a long table, a cleric with crossed eyes and mortar board drinks tea. He appears to be suspended in the air (the chair is not drawn) and leans with his elbow on the Morning Herald on the table. At the other end, a yawning academic in an unbuttoned coat under his robe, is doing up his stockings. His loose garter draws the attention of a playful cat while a dog watches him impatiently. Next to him on the table is an open volume of Euclid's Elements. The maid standing behind the table looks at the cleric on the left and pours hot water on the floor missing the teacup. Above the fireplace hang two muskets and three silhouette portraits of women. The bookshelves on the right display works of English authors and philosophers; on the left hangs a painting of a reposing nude and a satyr
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1783 by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London
"A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue and The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print
Description:
Title from text in lower margin, centered., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image, on either side of title: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III, & Queen Charlotte, this print is most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful and loyal subject, Jno. Boydell.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 29, 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
A soldier with a sword in his right hand has his left hand under the chin of a young lady who holds his gun in her left arm. Another soldier grins from behind a chair on which sits a drum. A monkey sits on a music book on a stool
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '145' in lower right corner., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Robert Sayer, Chart, Map, & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Soldiers, Military uniforms, British, Drums, Parlors, and Pets
"A travesty of Quintin Matsys' picture of 'The Misers' at Windsor, the misers being George III, writing in his ledger and counting coins, and Queen Charlotte, leaning on his shoulder. The pose, dress, background, and accessories are closely copied, except that the hood over the Queen's head is pushed back to show a large ear-ring and her hair which is decorated with pearls. The 's' of 'Originals' in the title has been scored through, stressing the identification of 'the Misers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original at Windsor and Lord Courtown's dream
Description:
Title etched below image; letter 's' in 'originals' scored through with several etched lines., Questionable attribution to Kingsbury from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pen cases -- Inkpots -- Jewels: Queen Charlotte's jewels -- Travesty: Quinten Metsys's The Money Changer and His Wife -- Allusion to James Stopford, Earl of Courtown, 1731-1810., and Watermark: initials LV G.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Jacob Dowse, near Turnstile, Holborn
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Books, Candlesticks, Interiors, Pets, Birds, Miserliness, and Coins
Title engraved below image., Below title: Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith., Attribution to Rennoldson based on companion print: Grown ladies &c. taught to dance., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Musicians: violinist -- Ear-trumpets -- Pictures amplifying subject: opera dancer -- Opera dancers: Madame Elastique -- Theatrical costume: opera dancer's costume -- Musical instruments: violin with case -- Music books -- Curl papers -- Placards: dancing lessons advertisement -- Literature: allusion to Works of Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 -- Allusion to Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke, 1632-1704 -- Furnishings: pulley stiles.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's active dates., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives; 152 Nassau St. New York
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Pets, Children, Infants, Rattles, and Dogs
In an elegant sitting room, an older man bows before a beatiful young woman who holds a squirrel in her hand as a handsome young man looks on the scene from the door. A painting of Spring hangs on the wall behind her; a painting of Winter hangs on the wall above the old man's head
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: furred overcoat -- Domestic service: footman -- Furnishings: pet house -- Picture hanging hooks -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Carpet -- Furniture: loveseat with embroidered upholstery., and Mounted; restrike on acidic paper.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Muffs, Servants, Pets, Squirrels, and Floor coverings
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed., In margin upper right: No. III., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Veterinary medicine, Pet medicine, Enema, Dogs, Diseases, Medical equipment & supplies, Pets, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed., In margin upper right: No. III., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and Hand-colored copy of Print01031.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Veterinary medicine, Pet medicine, Enema, Dogs, Diseases, Medical equipment & supplies, Pets, and Physicians
King George IV and the Marchioness of Conyngham grieve over the body of a dead giraffe, which had been sent to them by Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. There is a black mourning border around the image. Left, two Nubians lament. Right, the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon plays a dirge on the bagpipes (the King called him "Old Bags" because of the purse containing the Privy Seal carried by the Lord Chancellor), while next to him are a pillbox and a prescription signed "Abe[rne]thy", representing unsuccessful medicine for the giraffe
Description:
Title from text below image., Two lines of text beneath title: Suppose and suppose the giraffe it should die, Old Bags he should play over him, we'd sit down and cry., and Matted to: 32.5 x 41.6 cm.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Abernethy, John, 1764-1831., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Giraffe, Pets, Death, Bagpipes, Medicines, Bagpipe, Medicine, Giraffes, and Grief
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to pore over the recipe, which is in her left hand. One bare foot with deformed toes rests on a stool beside which are a spike-toed high-heeled shoe and a stocking. A table beside her and the floor below it are crowded with bottles, jars, and medicaments, with a pestle and mortar and a lighted candle. The candle sets fire to her cap, and the flame reaches a little bird-cage hanging from the ceiling. A cat walks under her petticoats; a tiny lap-dog lies in a cushioned band-box lid at her feet. A second cat claws towards a mouse which runs up the pole of a perch on which stands, a draggled and angry cockatoo. A pug-dog also looks up at the bird. Against the wall is a stuffed cat in a glass case; above it is a burlesque picture of Susanna and the Elders. A neat curtained bed is on the right. The chimney-piece is decorated with Diana (burlesqued) urging on the hounds to seize Actæon. On it are three peacock's feathers, bottles, spills, a shell, a Chinese mandarin, &c. The fireplace is lined with pictorial Dutch tiles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print first published as the heading to a broadside entitled "Recipe for corns". For an earlier state published 4 December 1822 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to pore over the recipe, which is in her left hand. One bare foot with deformed toes rests on a stool beside which are a spike-toed high-heeled shoe and a stocking. A table beside her and the floor below it are crowded with bottles, jars, and medicaments, with a pestle and mortar and a lighted candle. The candle sets fire to her cap, and the flame reaches a little bird-cage hanging from the ceiling. A cat walks under her petticoats; a tiny lap-dog lies in a cushioned band-box lid at her feet. A second cat claws towards a mouse which runs up the pole of a perch on which stands, a draggled and angry cockatoo. A pug-dog also looks up at the bird. Against the wall is a stuffed cat in a glass case; above it is a burlesque picture of Susanna and the Elders. A neat curtained bed is on the right. The chimney-piece is decorated with Diana (burlesqued) urging on the hounds to seize Actæon. On it are three peacock's feathers, bottles, spills, a shell, a Chinese mandarin, &c. The fireplace is lined with pictorial Dutch tiles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, Pets, and Single women
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
A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. As well as being cluttered with potions, the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall hangs a painting depicting the attempted seduction of Susanna by the elders. The lettering below image, a recipe in verse, begins: "Take tacamahacca, an ounce & a half, a pound of good suet, from the skin of a calf, 3 barbicued apples, a ha'p'orth of pears, 3 dragon flies pounded, the ear wax of bears, a small peice of cheese, a little gum copal, some putrified salt with some essence of opal ..."
Description:
Title etched below image, as the heading to the recipe in verse., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., For a later state lacking the recipe below image and with the new title "Mixing a recipe for corns", see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., "January 12th, 1467. Copied from the Black Letter"--Beneath recipe in verse., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Panaceas, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table. A man jocosely holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin. A man wearing a shirt or surplice stands with both arms held up, from one hand dangles a (?) burnt rag. A mastiff (right) snarls at the cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue and from original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '165' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Snap dragon -- Punch bowl., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12th 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Games, Beverages, Bowls (Tableware), Tables, Pets, Cats, and Dogs
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracature [sic] lent out for the evening. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: spencers -- Female dress: spencers., Watermark: (countermark) E & P., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. March 13, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville St.
"The bride, holding a handkerchief to her eye, and the young husband (left), wearing regimentals, advance into a well-furnished room; a delighted liveried servant eagerly places a chair for her. By the fire-place (right) are the middle-aged parents; the mother has risen, the father turns in his chair with gesture and expression of reproachful welcome. Behind (left) in the doorway two maidservants register surprised delight. On the wall are two pictures: (?) the prodigal son among swine, and the prodigal's return. There is an ornate chimney-piece in the Adam manner."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Return from Scotland
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Brides -- Bridegrooms -- Elopement -- Allusion to the parable of the prodigal son -- Furniture: mantel pieces -- Slipcovered chairs -- Military uniforms -- Military officers' uniforms -- Domestic service: footman's uniforms -- Maidservants -- Pictures amplifying the subject: prodigal son among the swines -- Pictures amplifying the subject: prodigal son leaving his home -- Knife boxes -- Plates -- Glass: liquor bottles -- Wine glasses, and Printmaker's name erased.
Publisher:
Printed & published December 17, 1785 by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
A group of ladies sit in highback chairs around a circular table, drinking tea and gossiping. On the table in front of the lady on the right, lays a book open to pages which read "Chit-Chat"; her lap dog sits looking up at her eagerly while a demon hides under the table at her feet. The ladies sit in a well-appointed parlor decorated with a rug, an elaborate mirror, and curtains. Above the fireplace hangs a picture of a clergyman carrying a woman on his back to church. To the left Envy chases Truth and Justice out the open door. On the right two gentlemen peer into the room through an open window and listen to the ladies' conversation. The engraved lines below in verse berates women for their love of gossip and inability to follow the dictates of the ninth commandment, forbidding one to bear false witness against one's neighbor. To the left of the fireplace is a niche filled with cups, plates, and other tableware
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1710?., Later state, published no earlier than 1740, i.e., the beginning date of John Bowles's business location at Cornhill. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 26, Sixty-nine lines of verse engraved in three columns below image: How see we scandal (for our sex too base), seat its dread empire in the female race ..., Dated from the Westminster Paving Act of 1766., and Mounted to 33 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Jno. Bowles, Print and Map Seller, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
Subject (Name):
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Eavesdropping, Envy, Ethics, Furnishings, Gossiping, Justice, Niches, Parlors, Pets, Tea parties, and Truth
Title etched below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and Married Life.
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's active dates., Publisher supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A kitchen scene with three female domestics. One is bending over offering an excited dog some sustenance from a tilted bucket while a second looks on with a slight smile. A third servant sits laboring in front of the fireplace
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Signed with the artist's initials in black ink below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Kitchens, Women domestics, Fireplaces, Animal feeding, and Pets
A caricature of an elderly woman, shown full-length, walking in profile to the left and holding a folded fan in her hand. A tiny dog (sheep?) follows behind her
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by curator. and For further information, consult library staff.
