A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
published as the act directs, [approximately 1773]
Call Number:
773.01.19.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Macaroni in a tricorne hat, a sword with a hilt in the shape of a cockatoo's head at his waist and a walking stick dangling from gold rope around his wrist, peers through his quizzing glass at two stylishly-dressed women -- one young and pretty, the other old and ugly -- whom he passes on the street in front of a tavern, a wrought-iron fence behind him. The sign above the entrance reads "Wines, &c"; the sign on the building reads "Kind and Tender Usage." The young woman holds her hands in her fur muff; a watch dangling from the edge
Description:
Title from text below image., Date erased, as in British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '278' in lower left corner., imperfect; publication date erased from this impression., and Plate number crossed out and corrected in contemporary hand to '280.'
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Pickpockets, Prostitutes, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
published as the act directs, [approximately January, 1773]
Call Number:
773.01.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date erased from this impression. Date on catalog card inferred from plate number placement in the Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles. In: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, p. 786., Plate numbered '269' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Covent Garden -- Bagnios -- Trades: link boy -- Female dress, 1773., and Publication date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A drunken orgy in a room with mirrors on the wall. Britannia, dressed as a courtesan (right), leans back in a chair, dead drunk, in her right. hand is a wine-bottle. One foot rests on her shield. A man standing behind pours over her the contents of a wine-bottle, in his right. hand he holds out a wine-glass. In the centre is a staggering figure wearing the ribbon and order of the Bath. His pocket is being picked by a plainly dressed man, while another holds his shoulder. Two men aimlessly flourish drawn swords. Another aims a blow with a long pole at a mirror. A courtesan has broken a mirror with a wine-bottle which she is waving in the air. In the background a woman, seated on a man's knee, is picking his pocket. On the floor in the foreground are broken wine-glasses, and a broken punch-bowl inscribed "the Constitution". The explanatory text asks "Who are the greatest drunkards? - Those at the helm - Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c -.."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ones in a bagnio
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 185., and Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Prostitutes -- Dishes -- Allusion to the Constitution.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Intoxication, Courtesans, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bowls (Tableware), and Pickpockets
A visual pun on the legal profession: The conveyancer is depicted as a pickpocket, the solicitor as a prostitute, and bar practice as a bartender
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Print numbered in ms. near upper edge of sheet: 264.
Publisher:
Published for the propietor by James Bulcock, 17 Park Place, Chelsea
A couple stand before a printshop window looking at the display of satiric prints, unaware that the man's pockets are being picked by a dandy with an extreme collar, his accomplish accepting the contents of the first pocket
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 2d, 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Pickpockets, Stores & shops, and Window displays
A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
A young drunk dandy, his clothes torn and spattered, is being ushered into a box-chair on the left by three members of the Watch, who grin consipiratorily towards the viewer. The scene is apparently set in the arcade of Covent Garden; on the ground is a playbill lettered 'At the Theatre Royal / Crow Street / the Road to Ruin'.
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication inferred from text on playbeill within image, which mentions Dublin's Theatre Royal in Crow Street., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Probably a copy, with different text on depicted playbill, of a print after Dighton that was published in London by Haines & Son on 18 June 1795. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.435., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden -- Footmen -- Playbills -- Literature: Allusion to The Road to Ruin, by Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) -- Theatre Royal, Crow Street.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Intoxication, Pickpockets, and Sedan chairs
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fashioned dress, watches terror-struck, while a woman picks his pocket from behind a curtain. A magic circle, with toad, skull, &c, a cat, a book with cabalistic signs, a stuffed crocodile suspended from the ceiling, give the required atmosphere."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons -- Cabalism., 1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 29.7 x 34.6 cm., and Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fashioned dress, watches terror-struck, while a woman picks his pocket from behind a curtain. A magic circle, with toad, skull, &c, a cat, a book with cabalistic signs, a stuffed crocodile suspended from the ceiling, give the required atmosphere."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons -- Cabalism.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
