publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 11, 1746.
Call Number:
746.06.11.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on barbers showing a figure composed from implements connected with the trade, the body being a mirror, the arms razors, the legs tongs, etc. In the background, three heads on blocks with names of "Three Notorious Spoil Trades": "N - cre", "Warehouse/Gr-ng - r" and "Ch-p-m-n"; woods, a house and hills beyond. Surrounded by a rococo frame from which hang combs, curls,etc.; title in a cartouche above and key below with publication line"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from item., 'Price 6d.', Key to numbers in the image in a vignette below it and surrounding imprint., Earlier state of No. 2469 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Watermark: Strasburg bend, partially cut off at top, with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
To be had of F. Hammond, engraver, in Charles Court in St. Martins Lane, and of the print sellers of London
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Barbers, Equipment, Occupations, and Scissors & shears
"Britannia (left), a buxom young woman, clasps the trunk of a large oak, while Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace, placing a large foot on her posteriors. He wears blue and buff with a tricolour cockade on his bonnet rouge. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: 'Rights of Man'. His face is blotched with drink and his expression is fiercely intent, but he is neatly dressed. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: 'Thomas Pain, Stay-maker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express.' Britannia looks over her shoulder at the stay-maker (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9240) with an expression of pained reproach. Her shield leans against the tree; her spear is on the ground; across it lies an olive-branch."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: stays -- Emblems: tri-colored cockade -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Reference to tailors -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Thetford and Paine's stay-making past -- Britannia's shield -- Symbols: olive branch., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Corsets, Scissors & shears, Liberty cap, Shields, Spears, and Olive branches
Inside a wig-maker's shop a bald man sitting on a stool squirms in agony as an elder woman attends to the wound on his forehead. Another man, standing to their right, looks on with visible discomfort. To their left is a table laid with scissors, razors, pliers, basin, small length of cloth and a bottle of 'Jalap.' A cat sits next to the cloth. In the background, on a wide window-sill, are wig-maker's tools and a wig in progress. Several finished wigs hang on pegs above the window. A number of boxes with the customers' names on them stand on a shelf above the door and an almanack hangs on the wall behind it. The door is wide open revealing in the background two men fighting a duel in front of the 'Crown' tavern, surrounded by several onlookers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher's dates from British Museum catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 21st, 1784, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court) Fleet Street, London
Leaf 13. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, dressed only in breeches, tries to flee from the Devil who caught him by the leg and is shearing off the hair from his chest. On the left, in front of the "India House" a group of elated men dance around a burning stake to which is tied a fox. A reference to the rejection of the India Bill in the House of Lords and the demise of the Coalition government
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "a" in the word "and" is etched backwards., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6283 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Several letters in imprint statement, as well as the digit "7" in "1783," are etched backwards., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 109-10., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Defeat of India Bill -- India House., and On leaf 13 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published 22 Decr. 1783 by Humphrys, Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Foxes, Burning at the stake, and Scissors & shears
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Tailor's shears -- Irons -- Food: cucumbers -- Tankards -- Goose -- Cabbage.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
A scissor grinder stands beside his cart, mounted with a grinding wheel. He holds a pair of large scissors in his hands
Alternative Title:
Scissors grinder
Description:
Title engraved in image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: partially cut off name.
Publisher:
Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, Grinding wheels, Occupations, and Scissors & shears
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 28., Text above image: For the Oxford mag., Temporary local subject terms: Interior: tailor's workshop -- Furniture: tailor's bench -- Tailor's implements: flat iron -- Button card -- Reference to George III's hobby of button-making -- Female dress: petticoat hoop -- Reference to the Princess of Wales's influence -- Slang: 'cabbage' as cloth pilfered by tailors., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subject (Topic):
Tailor shops, Scissors & shears, Buttons (Fasteners), and Irons (Pressing)
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman in back view, looking out to sea, says, "Now, I am an Absolute Monarch"; the words ascend in the smoke of his pipe. He holds a sword and is surrounded by cackling geese. All four sovereigns hold the map, and all shed tears: George III (right) tugs at it with both hands, tearing off a piece inscribed 'Good Hope', 'Java', 'Saba', 'Eustatia', 'Curac', 'Bonaire' (?), 'Coruba', 'St Martins', 'Surinam'. Frederick William of Prussia (left), seated on the ground, wearing a fool's cap decorated with the skull and cross-bones of the Death's Head Hussars, uses a dagger to cut off a piece containing 'Friesland', 'Groningen', 'Overyisel', and 'Ceylon'. The Emperor Joseph, standing opposite Frederick William, slices the map with a large sword, securing 'Utrecht', 'Zalper' (?), 'Holland', 'Molucca Islands'. Between Joseph and George III Louis XVI, dressed as a French fop, uses a pair of shears to cut off 'Guelderland', 'Zeeland', 'Rotterda[m]', and 'Hague'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutch Republic.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
"The interior of a blacksmith's forge. Two men in leather aprons and rolled up shirt-sleeves stand at the anvil; one has a hammer in his right. hand, the iron in his left. Both gape in consternation towards a tailor, who stands on the right. He holds in his hand a newspaper, "The Morning . . . Monday July" and reads from it. Under his arm is a large pair of scissors, a yard measure hangs from his pocket. The other smith, behind and to the left., is similarly dressed; by him stands a man also wearing an apron but with a coat and a short wig. In the background is a woman holding a baby. On the left. is a large forge with a cone-shaped chimney and an enormous pair of bellows. The roof is raftered. Four horse-shoes, a bent strip of iron, and the portrait of a man (possibly Wilkes) hang on the wall. A dog is asleep in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated by British Museum catalogue: 1 July 1772., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 229., and Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait (of John Wilkes?) -- Literature: reference to Shakespeare's King John, iv.2.
