The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an irate woman seated on an upturned tub beside her stall, berating a lady in a riding-habit who holds a huge fish's head. Beside the latter is another lady, disconcerted. Two liveried servants are among the crowd. Lady Caroline Lamb and a young marchioness, both 'in disguise', go to the market to hear the traditional language of the fishwives, this Lady Caroline provokes by disparaging a fish. On the left is a fashionably dressed young man, resembling Robert Cruikshank. On the left, a drunken woman sits with her glass raised. From British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
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. 14941 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: Page 342, vol. 1. Watermark: Warranted not bleached.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Ships, and Street vendors
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804,
A small print depicting a scene from Homer's Odyssey as he sails back to his home in Ithaca: Two Laestrygonian, who are giants, one who upends one Odysseus's ships as other eats one of the men as the fail into the sea. The high cliffs of Lamos is in the distance on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possibly a book illustration?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Laestrygonians (Greek mythology), Giants (Fictitious characters), Cannibalism, and Ships
Set of 290 black-and-white prints of Rockwell Kent's illustrations and decorations for the 1930 Lakeside edition of Moby Dick. The prints are housed in 148 mats, with each mat holding one to four prints, and divided into three volumes that correspond to the published Lakeside edition. The mats for each volume are housed in a custom case with paper spine and cover labels featuring Kent's illustrations. Volume 1 contains mats 1-49 (95 prints) and the inventory of illustrations; volume 2 contains mats 50-94 (89 prints); and volume 3 contains mats 95-148 (106 prints).
Alternative Title:
Moby Dick
Description:
BEIN 2023 Folio 19: From the library of William S. Reese. Twenty-six sheets bear the Strathmore drawing board trademark stamp. Accompanied by manuscript inventory of illustrations in an unidentified hand (11 pages). Each mat is numbered in pencil with a number corresponding to this inventory. The final 9 illustrations (mats 145-148) likely do not appear in the published Lakeside edition. and Title devised by cataloger.
Volume 2, page 43. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 43 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
A mock coat of arms, perhaps for George IV, that possibly served as the tailpiece or other illustration to a verse-satire on the trial of Queen Caroline. The shield is vase-shaped and includes a mug of beer at center, tents and cannons on either side of the mug, a settee below the mug, three ships at top, scales of justice with "vice" outweighing "virtue" below the ships, and a ram at bottom. Surmounting the shield is a donkey with a owl on its back, the owl wearing a tall conical hat; the donkey stands upon a "log", a volume with "bill" on its spine, a chess board, playing cards, sheets of paper labeled "address", and a cross above which "liturgy petition" is written. Plants are seen on either side of shield; below the shield are banners in which the Latin phrases "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um" are written
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and publication information from potentially related prints that were published by Humphrey and are attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue. See nos. 13948-13972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Possibly a plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 12 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted with eight sheets of letterpress text, for letters R-Z, meant to face the corresponding plates in bound copies of Horrida bella.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Books, Playing cards, Board games, Scales, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, Cannons, Ships, Sheep, and Couches
Tentative identification of Fox, Sheridan, Moira, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir George Shuckburgh in chairs, leaning against the sides of bunks in a ship, all sleeping or being ill
Alternative Title:
Margate hoy
Description:
Title from Draper Hill; alternative title from pencil inscription on verso: A Margate hoy. and Date from Draper Hill, who suggests that the drawing is a preliminary for one of the illustrations for the abandoned de luxe edition of Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835, and Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Winchelsea, Charles Finch, Earl of, 1672-1712, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1712?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 50. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's name in lower left corner. The identity of "Lord Maidstone" is pondered in Horace Walpole's ink annotation at bottom of mount: This was probably Charles Lord Maidstone, son of William lost in the Dutch war, & grandson of Heneage Finch Earl of Winchelsea, whom he suceeded., Date of production based on death date of the presumed artist., Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing., and Mounted on page 50 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
