Leaf 79. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Damnation of Obadiah
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. Nos. 5214 and 5216 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1746 ; 59.533.1744., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 79 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Maps, Servants, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, and Screens
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The breakfast : symptoms of drowsiness., A reduced copy of no. 8538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Dinners -- Footmen -- Furniture -- Dinner table., and Imperfect; artist's signature mostly erased from sheet.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before1762]
Call Number:
760.00.00.88+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tall, elegantly dressed elderly gentleman stands in center of a room looking with disgust over his left shoulder at large round tripod table on which lies a crying infant in a straw basket. He holds a raised cane in his right hand and a tricorne hat under his right arm. From his left side hangs a tasselled sword. The baby's basket has a ribbon inscribed 'To Simon Spindleshanks, Esq.' Behind his master, to the left, stands a grinning manservant who is showing delight in what he has brought about. In the background are beautifully panelled walls hung with two paintings which amplify the subject of the print. The one on the left depicts a violent storm; in the one on the right Delilah with Samson asleep at her knee, beckons soldiers to enter the room
Alternative Title:
Plague of a single state, Enraged batchelor, and Enraged bachelor
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: Batter'd, deseas'd, and past his youthfull pranks, lo here a bantling, laid to Spindleshanks ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
A short, soot-covered chimney-sweep embraces a tall, pretty kitchen maid who holds a spoon in her hand. His bag and brush are on the floor by the baking oven behind him. Another chimney-sweep, sitting in the cavity of the cold fireplace and chewing on bones, watches the pair. On the wall above the bake oven hang copper and brass pots and pans and a chopper and a ballad sheet; on the mantel above the fireplace are candesticks and a mortar and pestle
Alternative Title:
Enterprising chimney sweeper
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: So fine a girl! you must belie her, would never let that sweep come nigh her ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 36 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 26, 1772, by W. Humphrey at the Shell Warehouse, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Embracing, Kitchens, Ovens, Pots & pans, and Servants
A fashionably dressed woman sits (left) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor
Alternative Title:
Convenience of modern dress
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
A fashionably dressed woman sits (right) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor
Alternative Title:
Convenience of modern dress
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from contemporary ms. note., After Gillray., Unsigned copy in reverse of No. 8897 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Watermark: C. Taylor., and Mss. notation in lower margin, dated '1797' in black ink.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
"A young couple embrace on a sofa, the woman holds out a rose in her left hand which her infant on the extreme right smells. The elderly husband watches round the door; behind him, on the extreme left, a grinning servant puts his finger to his nose. Under the characters (left to right): 'Hearing.' 'Seeing.' 'Tasting.' 'Feeling.' 'Smelling.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title engraved above image., Earlier state of no. 9659 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Each depicted 'sense' named below its manifestation in the image: Hearing. Seeing. Tasting. Feeling. Smelling., Plate numbered '205' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Toddlers -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Furniture.
Publisher:
Published 1st January 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Satire based on a novel of the same title on the cruel and hypocritical behaviour of a female former convict with four scenes enclosed within rococo scrolls. The scene on the left shows Polly Haycock, visibly pregnant, standing on a quay chained with a group of other convicts, guarded by a turnkey as they await transportration; above a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "With Child by the under turnkey, put on board a Lighter, from thence into a Transport Ship bound for Virginia". In the centre are two scenes, the lower one showing a coach travelling through a town being approached by two robbers, one of whom stands at the coach door raising his hands towards the woman sitting inside who wears a watch. Beneath this scene is written "Rob Theif. Or the Lady of ye Gold Watch Polly Haycock". In the scene above this a nearly naked woman is kneeling on a stone, her hands tied behind her back, being whipped by a black man; in the background on the left a man can be seen through a window sitting eating while on the right a man on horseback raises his hands. Written above is "Whipp'd during dinner her master boasting that no Monarch upon earth had so fine Musick as he fancied her Cries. In the Intreim [sic] the Justice Releasing and takes her home". In the fourth scene on the right she stands in a fashionable dress in a grand room holding a stick, a girl lies at her feet in evident distress, her skirt pulled up; a fashionably black page-boy stands on the left and three female servants stand in the background on the right. Above the scene a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "Her usage to her Free-born English Servants is as they do Negroes and Felons in the Plantations tho' she felt the Mesery herself". Beneath is written Remember Mrs. Branch & her daughter (a reference to the notorious case of Elizabeth Branch who murdered her servant in 1740)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Print made by: George Bickham the Younger. See British Museum online catalogue., Four designs enclosed by scrolls, each with its own inscription., Temporary local subject terms: Boats: lighter -- Plates -- Dishes: tankard -- Food: cooked fowl -- Furniture: table -- Chair -- Mantel -- Female servant -- Female dress: gold watch -- Sticks -- Transports -- Architectural details: Virginia planter's house., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Branch, Elizabeth and Haycock, Mary, active 1741
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Carriages & coaches, Criminals, Dogs, Horses, Masks, Prison laborers, Servants, Enslaved people, and Whips
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., and Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness.
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.3 x 54 cm., and Printed on wove paper, trimmed within plate mark.
