"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
On the street in front of the shop of S.W. Fores & Co. a mix of Londoners -- trades people, clergy, gentleman and ladies, etc. -- fight the effects of a very strong wind: a parson loses his wig, a woman's dress is blown up over her hips revealing her large buttocks; a woman selling fish has fallen to the ground, her hat and wares strewn across the sidewalk as a man with a walking stick trips over her, etc. Above the shop window is a sign that reads "Prints &c wholesale & for expotation".
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 42 x 56 cm., matted to 49 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 28, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly and No. 57 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England) and Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Fishmongers, Men, Prints, Publishing industry, Stores & shops, Wigs, Window displays, Winds, and Women
An interior view of Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts at 101 Strand, London, showing the counter at right and presses and stands at left, ceiling windows above, several customers viewing the prints and other objects
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Plate 2" in upper right corner., "For No. 1" lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Consumers, Interiors, Prints, Publishing industry, and Stores & shops
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[September 1801]
Call Number:
801.09.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the shop of P. Roberts, publisher, from the street with a crowd on the sidewalk and street looking at the display of prints in the window. An elegant figure Roberts (?) stands in the doorway with a tool of his trade (a burin?) in hand; a customer is seated inside near the window. In the crowd are men, women and children, including a Black man and a man with no legs
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker surmised from subject matter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mss. note at top of sheet: No. 7.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Sepr. 1801 by P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, Printing industry, and People with disabilities
Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below text., Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London....", Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it., At bottom of plate: B--b--y., Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue., and Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
A view of Humphrey's printshop window, with a crowd gathered outside looking in at the display of prints in three curved rows of windows. On display in the windows are recognizeable prints from a series published by Humphrey attacking Queen Caroline. See British Museum online catalogue for complete description of the prints on display in the window
Description:
Title from caption below image, set in blue Garter ribbon. and Questionable attribution to T. Lane from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Crowds, Prints, and Stores & shops
A pot lid with a transfer print showing the figure of Justice in the center with outstretched arms holding laurel wreaths over two lists on either side naming the members of the House of Lords who voted for her acquittal
Alternative Title:
Honour to the defenders of innocence and the rights of the nation
Description:
Title from engraved text on lid., Text below image: The people most worthy of liberty are those who are the most zealous in the defence of their rights., Transfer print mounted on top of a lid (this example framed)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
A manuscript invoice issued by Robert Sayer, a successful London print, map, and chart publisher, on 15 August 1772. The purchaser is one "Mr. Gordon" of "9 Bury Court, St. Mary Ave". The list is grouped by type, "10 historical prints", "72 prints of ladies, eminent men, humourous, etc.", "8 large landskips", and "12 views of Havannah", with details concerning framing, glass, cases, and shipping charges. On the verso, a docket title indicating a discount persumably because of the size of the order
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Leaf 75. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Numerous figures clamouring to look at caricatures in window of Martinet's printshop, 124 rue Coq Saint Honoré, Paris; the shop sign is given as 'Marinet marchand's destampes', a sign at far left advertises 'Publications de Mons Tegg grande marchande des caricature Anglo[..]'; a copy in reverse of the lithograph by Bergeret."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1805-1819 by Thomas Tegg, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1989,0930.217., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 75 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Printing industry, Clothing & dress, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Signs (Notices)
"Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in British Museum Satire no. 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he holds her left hand smiling, and pointing at one of the prints with his right hand. She turns aside smiling behind her fan. Two men (right) stand in conversation; one (right) points out to the other, who is in back view, both hands held up in astonishment, one of the prints in the top row, apparently that of Wesley. Other prints print of John Bunyan and George Whitefield. A dog befouls the foot of the man facing the shop-window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below title, in two colums: While macaroni and his mistress here, At other characters in picture, sneer, To the vain couple is but little known, How much deserving ridicule their own.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
