"Interior view of the great room at Brookes's Subscription House; men sit playing cards at large round tables to the right side of room; a grand chandelier hanging from ceiling; sofas and smaller tables to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great Subscription Room at Brooks's, St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 39., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 94., and Matted to 36 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club),
Subject (Topic):
Private clubs, Interiors, Parlors, Card games, Gambling, and Chandeliers
"Interior view of the great room at Brookes's Subscription House; men sit playing cards at large round tables to the right side of room; a grand chandelier hanging from ceiling; sofas and smaller tables to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great Subscription Room at Brooks's, St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 39., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 94., 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.9 x 27.6 cm, on sheet 27 x 33.8 cm., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club),
Subject (Topic):
Private clubs, Interiors, Parlors, Card games, Gambling, and Chandeliers
Title etched below image., Publication statement flanks both sides of title., Text below title: They even stooped to the most degrading submission to obtain tickets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiting, one over a prostrate member. An elderly man protests angrily; his neighbour tries to make him sit down. The room is lit by a chandelier hanging from an ornate ceiling. A servant draws a cork, another enters with a punchbowl from behind a screen (right). Bottles stand in a magnificent wine-cooler, round which empty bottles are massed. The members' hats are piled on an ornate chimney-piece; a Jew reaches over a low screen to take a hat, unaware hat a member has risen to denounce him. This screen is in front of a 'Ballotin Box', with two round apertures inscribed 'Nay' and 'yea'. On the wall (left) is a placard: 'Rules to be observed in this Society, Ist That each Member shall fill a half pint Bumper to the first Toast. 2nd That after Twenty four Bumper toasts are gone round, every [sic] may fill as he pleases. 3 That any Member refusing to comply with the above Regulations to be fine a bumper of Salt & Water'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The palatial room, lit by candle chandelier, is filled with memebers standign conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication rubbed from this impression. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
The palatial room, lit by a candle chandelier, is filled with members standing in conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15217 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 252.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
