A three-quarters length image of a pretty young seamstresses in the act of sewing. Text below title: Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks? King Henry IV, part 1.
Alternative Title:
Dressmaker
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1792]
Call Number:
792.03.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design in a circle: An old woman and a little boy sit facing each other in a bare and dilapidated room. She sits in profile to the left, in an upholstered armchair, threading a needle to mend clothes; a shirt lies on her patched apron. He sits with hands folded on a ladderback chair. Between and behind them sits a cat
Description:
Title from time., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., and Two lines of text below image: I wish from my heart - one of us three was hang'd - I don't mean you poor Puss - nor I don't mean myself.'
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cats, Chairs, Dwellings, Eyeglasses, Grandparents, Interiors, Poverty, and Sewing
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confin'd! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconemy [sic].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Families, Interiors, Poor persons, Povery, Sewing, and Fireplaces
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confined! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconomy.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
A young woman and a monk sit under two trees while a monk sews or embroiders a piece of fabric with floral motifs. They are being observed by a man hiding behind the trees. In the background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Two lines of verse on either side of title: Alass! [sic] how vain religion's awful [sic] name. The drone monastic blots it o'er with shame ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
With three wood engravings entitled "Destructive fire in the Tower of London", "Ruling the roast", and "One of the thimble-rig gentry", the last of which is signed with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., "No. 51"., "One penny"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
W. Vickers, Holywell Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Tower of London (London, England), Fires and fire prevention, Cookery, Fires, and Sewing
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1768]
Call Number:
765.00.00.89+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
A print after Romney's portrait of Amy Lyon, mistress of The Honorable Charles Greville who, wanting a portrait of her, introduced her to Romney. She later became Emma, Lady Hamilton and still later, the mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson. She is shown in profile, in a bonnet with a blue ribbon, seated on a chair outdoors under a tree, head bent over her sewing. On the left in the distance, two sheep rest peacefully on the hillside
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from Horne.
Title and date from item., In margin upper right: Plate 96., From: William Combs, The Microcosm of London, 3 vols., London: R. Ackermann, 1808-1810., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809. at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Workhouses, Poor persons, Sewing, Textiles, and Needlework
Mother and father depicted with three small children under a tree. The mother sews as the father plays with a small child. The older girl plays with a bucket in her lap, and the other small child slumbers in the foreground
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Signed on accompanied mat: DB., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
