Two women stand on a balcony, mouths open in song and eyes cast downward at their music sheet. They wear corsetted dresses and feathered head wear. A satire of the duet performed by Harriet Abrams (1758-1821), the English soprano and composer, and her...
"The interior of Dulwich College Chapel. A stout man, probably the Master, wearing a gown, stands in a pulpit or desk (left), a large book before him, his eyes and mouth twisted in a sly leer. Below him (right) the figure of Edward Alleyne has risen f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Alleyn, Edward, 1566-1626., Alleyn, Thomas, -1805., and Dulwich College
"A girl dancing holding out in both hands a garland of roses. Her looped up skirt has a short train. From her head-dress of flowers and feathers hangs a piece of striped drapery which is worn over one shoulder, tied with tassels at the waist and falli...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside as [the] act directs
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments incl...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's b...
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's b...
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"The Duchess of Devonshire with two other catch-singers, Fox and North, who are dressed as fat old market-women. The Duchess (left) elegantly dressed, but with her breast uncovered and wearing her election hat with 'Fox' favours, feathers, and fox's b...
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. and sold by Wm. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Crutches, Politics and government, Singers, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--Briti...
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--Briti...
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
Studio portraits of entertainers created by Thomas Houseworth & Co. that comprise a portion of the Houseworth's Celebrities, ca. 1870-1880. Images include female burlesque actresses and dancers Viola Clifton, Lizzie McCall, Lulu Mortimer, and Mabel S...
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts.
Subject (Name):
Clifton, Viola., Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915., McCall, Lizzie., Melville, Emelie., Mortimer, Lulu., Orrin, Edward W., Santley, Mabel., and Thomas Houseworth & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Acrobats, Actresses, Burlesque (Theater), Dancers, Entertainers, and Singers
"Portrait of the singer, performing at Vauxhall; holding sheet music, resting on ballustrade in front of him; an orchestra in background; in oval with ornaments at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Darley as performing in the orchestra at Vauxhall
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Darley, William, approximately 1756-1809, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
"Portrait seen almost whole-length, seated slightly to right playing lute, head turned to face l, wearing loose dress and her hair partly up; tree behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Verse in two lines and two columns below title reads: Were there on earth another voice like thine, another hand, so blest with skill divine, the late afflicted world some hopes might have, and harmony recall thee from the grave.
"Portrait of Letitia Cross standing three-quarter length to front beside flowers, her hands crossed, head turned slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing loose dress and pearls in her hair, with veil, curtain, arches and statues in garden seen behind...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden
An etching in outline representing the interior of a room, with a door on the left, a circular table on the right. On the table is a dish on which sits a boar's head; a scroll on the table to the left reads "Reprieve for murder." A crutch is propped ...
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, Thicknesse, Ann, 1737-1824, and Ford, Thomas, -1768,
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Boars, Courtship, Crutches, Gout, Guitars, Interiors, Lawyers, and Singers
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:
771.03.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
A man with a caricatured face, shown with a protruding lower jaw, missing teeth, warts, and hooked nose, is shown in left profile. He wears a long wig decorated with curls and a small tricorne hat on top of it. He appears to be missing his left arm. I...
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, August 12th, 1771, by Picot & Delattre in St. Martin's Lane
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (whole length) stands in profile to the right, his mouth wide open as if singing. In his right hand he holds blank sheets of paper evidently intended for music. His left hand holds the right side of his coat. His hair is in an enormously long q...
Alternative Title:
French marrowbone singer
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Oct. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (whole length) stands in profile to the right, his mouth wide open as if singing. In his right hand he holds blank sheets of paper evidently intended for music. His left hand holds the right side of his coat. His hair is in an enormously long q...
Alternative Title:
French marrowbone singer
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Oct. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"Mme Mara (left) and Rubinelli (right) sing a duet on the stage. Rubinelli, tall and thin, wearing quasi-Roman dress with a plumed helmet and long cloak, leans towards Mara, his right arm extended. Mara stands full-face, her hands on her breast, singi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 30th May 1786 by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833 and Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista, 1753-1829
"Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconc...
A copy in reverse, with variations, of Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A midnight modern conversation". The title of the music before the singer with spectacles at the top of image is "An ode for New Years Day"; the other singers hold music with t...
785.06.28.01 Framed, shelved in Object Room Rack 1.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An evening scene in Vauxhall Gardens. On the extreme left is the orchestra with the organ behind and performers on the kettledrums, string and wind instruments. The vocalist, Mrs. Weichsel, sings, in profile to the right, from the adjacent (and sligh...
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 28th 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1737-1793, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pasley, Thomas, Sir, 1734-1808, Perry, James, 1756-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Topham, Edward, 1751-1820
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Parks, Audiences, Concerts, Couples, Crowds, Musicians, Orchestras, Peg legs, and Singers
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
A copy in reverse of the second state of William Hogarth's A Chorus of Singers which was first etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation". A scene with seventeen men and boys rehearsing, in this case, "An Ode for New Years Da...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate h...
A young woman stands in a city street singing, a scroll with music in her one hand; beside her is a young girl who plays a triangle. The two performers are surrounded by a happy looking crowd of working class and poor citizens -- men, women and child...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by Ed. Jones
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Children, Cries, Singers, Street entertainers, and Percussion instruments
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are a violin and loose sheets of music. Th...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of eight figures in the fourth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. the countess; 2. Silvertongue; 3. the hairdresser; 4. the black servant;...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Eating & drinking, Hairdressing, Singers, and Marriage
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the fifth plate of Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered: 1. The dying earl; 2. The countess; 3. Silvertongue, escaping through the wind...
Description:
Title and from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Death, Escapes, Homicides, Singers, Marriage, and Watchmen
