Three images of young boys, one playing with a stick and hoop; another, poor ragged boy, barefoot and carrying a sack; and the third a young ragged, chimney sweep
Description:
Title from captions below image sequence., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and into three distinct sections., and Watermark.
Three images of young boys, one playing with a stick and hoop; another, poor ragged boy, barefoot and carrying a sack; and the third a young ragged, chimney sweep
Description:
Title from captions below image sequence., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and into three distinct sections., and Watermark.
Five poverty-stricken Scotsmen are depicted walking to attend Parliament, four having crossed the Tweed river, the one on the furthest left about to cross. He is labelled "famine", the next two in the center are dancing a reel, and further to the right another (possibly Dundas) carries his breeches on a pole. The figure on the far right is leaning on two sticks. He is possibly Lord Adam Gordon
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 28 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as [the] act directs Jany. 1784 by J. Smith & sold at No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Adam, Lord, approximately 1726-1801. and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811.
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, Scottish, Poverty, Walking, and Clothing & dress
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round snuff box on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published 2 March 1795 by Bowles & Carver. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2105., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.7 x 16 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 18.6 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round snuff box on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published 2 March 1795 by Bowles & Carver. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2105., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
Title from verse written below image. "Some write for pleasure, some for spite; But want of Money makes me Write.", Alternate title supplied by curator., From: The Passions Hummoursly Delineated by Timothy Bobbin, Esq., London: Edward Orme, 1810., Design trimmed from page and mounted., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub June 4 1810 by Edwd. Orme. London
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Amputees, Crutches, Peg legs, Poor persons, and Beggars
A coach pulling up to the Post Station, the Cock Inn at left, on route to Brighton. The coach is pulling into the court yard, about to pass under a wooden gate bearing the inn's sign, while another coach stands at the inn door. People look down from the second story windows. A man waits at the mile marker in front of another building at right. In the foreground to left, a man with a wooden leg carries a small child on his back as he leads a donkey that carries a woman and two children, one of whom appears to be nursing, the other in a basket that hangs over the donkey. Their dog follows behind
Description:
Title etched below image., First of eight plates to: Wigstead, H. Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789. London : Printed ... for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint in sepia on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 33.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinson's, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Sutton (England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Donkeys, Peg legs, Poverty, and Taverns (Inns)
"Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 9., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Cf. No. 11469, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with modified imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry., 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Social conditions, Cats, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Potatoes, Poverty, and Starvation
"A ragged man, wearing clerical bands, stands full face. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, his toes protrude through one shoe. He looks downwards with a meditative grimace, one arm held out towards a church steeple among trees. Mountains form a background. Beneath is etched: '"------Best scene of all, "With which I close this reverend description, "Is your Welch Parson, with his noble living, "Sans shoes, Sans hose, sans breeches, sans every thing.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title, beginning: Best scene of all ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: parody of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ii, 7, 163.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
Call Number:
782.11.09.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., A publication date of 1783 was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.837., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The benevolent physician takes no fee, of those that need him much in poverty. To poor distress'd, and those of small estate, he money gives, takes only of the great., Companion print to: The rapacious quack., and Plate numbered "486" in lower left.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, British, Families, Sick children, Interior decoration, Fireplaces, Biblical events, Canopy beds, Painting, Poverty, Beneficence, Patients, fireplaces, medicine bottles, beds (furniture), poverty, patients, Clothing, Money, Medicine bottles, House furnishings, Benevolence, and Beds
