Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, is dressed in an officer's uniform and seated at a writing desk next to a window. He turns to gaze at a portrait of his mistress, Mary Anne Clark, on the wall behind him, which hangs next to another painting of Cupid with his bow and arrow. Printed below the illustration are a love poem and a quoted extract from a love letter, taken from the work 'The Authentic and Impartial Life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke' that was published after the Duke severed ties with her in 1809
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Date of publication inferred from the inclusion of extracts from The authentic and impartial life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, published in 1809., Letterpress text beneath title begins: Pretty! Pretty! Mistress Clarke, None than I can love thee better; ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published by M.C. Springsguth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Writing materials, Mistresses, Love letters, and Portraits
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's founding in 1946 and renaming in 1950., Publisher supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Very good; smudging.
Publisher:
National Mental Health Foundation
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Genetic aspects, Mental health, Portraits, and Family members
A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as 'rights', 'reform', and 'popularity'. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the subject matter of the print. Publisher Marianne Humphrey, the widow of George Humphrey, operated her late husband's publishing business from 1831 to 1835; see British Museum online catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and a monkey tired of play ..., For an 1821 print of similar composition, entitled "The man of the woods & the cat-o'-mountain" and satirizing the relationship between Queen Caroline and Sir Matthew Wood, see no. 14131 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cats, Monkeys, Fireplaces, Bookcases, Irons (Pressing), and Portraits
Title vignettes, engraved., While vol. 2 was published in 1752, some large paper copies are dated 1751., Two volumes bound in one; volume 2 dated 1751., Large paper copy., and Laid in before page 25: two unidentified leaves laid in, with drawings on rectos and versos of elevations, floor plans, and a sketch of a column, one in pen and ink and the other in graphite. On the leaves is laid paper with a J. Whatman watermark, dated 18[...]. The other paper is wove.
Drawing of a tall sign, with a post similar to that of a street lamp, displaying a rectangular portrait of a man surrounded by ornamentation. The man, possibly a politician, is shown bust-length in profile to the left; he has a long nose that curls upward and wears a wig that likewise curls upwards in the back. The words "The saviour of his grateful country" are written on the sign directly beneath the portrait, indicating that the sign might in fact be a monument. To the right of the sign is a low milestone on which is written "To Kingston I mile, to London X miles".
Description:
Title written in image., Possibly drawn by James Sayers; the drawing is laid in a volume of prints that Sayers assembled., Approximate date of production from watermark: G. Pike 1817., and Attached to a lithograph with a metal pin that pierces the lower left corners of both sheets; laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Traffic signs & signals, Milestones, and Portraits
"Mrs. Clarke stands before a large doorway inscribed Clark and Company. She wears a white short-sleeved dress with plumed cocked hat, gorget, and military sash, sword-belt and scabbard. The sword she holds over her head, saying, Now Gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of. as the partnership is disolving. She holds out a paper: List of Prices at Clark and Co's Warehouse--Majority--£900. Company --7oo. Lieutenancy 400. Through the doorway behind her are seen great stacks of papers in her 'warehouse'. These are labelled: Captains Commissions 500 each, Half-pay Commissions 200 each, Lieutenant, Colonel, Major, Cornet. On the wall is a notice: NB a sum wanted by way o Loan, terms to be seen within. On the right stands a man playing a fiddle, and saying with a sly smile, If you want de commission, you must give me de Note den I go play de Fiddle to de white petticoat. From his coat-pockets hang papers: Pay Sigr Cor[ri] for [word illegible] 200; and a piece of music: The Petticoat [see British Museum Satires No. 11220]. Beside him lies a large Note Book. Above his head hangs upside down a portrait: The Dukes Head; the upper part only of the Duke of York's profile is visible, defaced by a black mark, the rest of the picture being cut off by the upper margin of the design. On the left two military bandsmen play a drum and fife. One asks: What tune shall we play now Jack the Duke of Yorks Marck [sic]? Answer: No No lets play she's off with another."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Commission warehouse
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect; the word "York" at beginning of title has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. February 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Musicians, Violins, Drums (Musical instruments), Military bands, Military uniforms, British, Price lists, Warehouses, and Portraits
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1740]
Call Number:
724 791K
Collection Title:
Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a cherub cuts the inscription on the plinth below: 'The Collection of Charles Jarvis Esq Consisiting of Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Basso Relievo, &c &c'; with classical artistic fragments to left and classical buildings in the background, including Trajan's column, and a fragment on the right inscribed 'Heath Auctioneer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures, prints, and drawings late of Charles Jarvis Esq; deceased. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1740]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 20.3 x 12.2 cm; mounted on leaf 24 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 466 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Knox, V. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers ... London : Rivington [etc.], 1791.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's original drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi
"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.1348., A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43., On same sheet: Miseries of London., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Families, Social mobility, Students, Teachers, Teaching, and Portraits
