"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
Print of Molyneux in a fighting stance, likely during his fight against English champion Tom Cribb of 1810 or 1811
Description:
Thomas "The Moor" Molineaux, although usually called Tom Molineaux (which is sometimes spelled Molyneaux) was an African-American bare-knuckle boxer and former slave. He spent much of his career in Great Britain and Ireland, where he had some notable successes. He arrived in England in 1809 and started his fighting career there in 1810. It was his two fights against Tom Cribb, widely viewed as the Champion of England that brought fame to Molineaux, although he lost both contests. His prizefighting career ended in 1815. After a tour that took him to Scotland and Ireland, he died in Galway, Ireland in 1818, aged 34., Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Leaf 16 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818, and Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Prints, and Boxers (Sports)
"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Portrait heads of fifty-five men, mostly in profile, identified elsewhere as portraits of various print sellers, collectors, artists, etc., sketched by Paul Sandby while attending print sales in London
Description:
Title etched below image., "The portrait heads are based on thumbnail drawings made by Paul Sandby in the margins of print sale catalogues of the 1780s, now in an album in the Royal Library. They are described by A.P. Oppé in "The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby at Windsor Castle" (Phaidon, 1947), pp. 83-85"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1876,1209.612., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. the 1st, 1798, by Sylvester Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Print dealers, Prints, and Collectors and collecting
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City of London
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.46., Text at bottom: N.B. Frontage 11 feet - depth - 8 feet., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 437 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of seven men standing on the street in front of the window of Matthew Darly's shop looking at his caricature publications in the window. On the door are plates inscribed "39" "Dar".
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of seven men standing on the street in front of the window of Matthew Darly's shop looking at his caricature publications in the window. On the door are plates inscribed "39" "Dar".
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., First of two plates on leaf 36., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.9, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"A man in quasi-fashionable dress with spurred top-boots and knee-breeches gapes oafishly at a print-shop window, while a little boy, respectably dressed, takes a purse from his breeches-pocket, having already twitched a handkerchief from the coat-tail pocket which hangs inside out. Behind (right) a lady stares through an eye-glass. In each pane of the curved window of a corner-shop (Berthoud's?) is a print. One of the Devil faces a portrait of the 'Duke of Wellington'; these are 'The Pair Half a Crown' [cf. BM Satires Nos. 13826, 15646]; 'Up to every thing' is a tall soldier, taking the hand of a woman at a first-floor window; 'A Loan' is BM Satires No. 14993; 'Man of Taste' is a man at the counter of a ham and beef shop (cf. BM Satires No. 13127); 'Remember the Post Boy your Honor', scene in an inn yard. There are other prints, one is a double sheet: 'Joe Lisle Play upon words'. There is a Paul Pry (not resembling Liston, cf. BM Satires No. 15138), and against the pickpocket's head is a print of an empty gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Merchandise displays, Pickpockets, Prints, Stores & shops, and Witnesses