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 sister Theodosia (ca. 1770-1849), a contralto, on 9 May 1788 at Hanover Square Rooms. The piece performed was 'Gia che mia sposa sei' by Antonio Sacchini, and the occasion was the annual benefit concert for the tenor Samuel Harrison
Alternative Title:
Duet at the Hanover Square concert
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by John Nixon, now in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London. The artist's "JN" monogram and "1788" date are etched within center left portion of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Laid down onto album paper, with a cropped portrait of an unidentified man on the verso: I. Hiresman pinx. ; M. Vdr. Guchta sculp.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Signed "M." in the lower right corner., Earlier state without imprint date and with alterations to the design. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6557., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Election Committee -- Allusion to Wood's Hotel -- Covent Garden -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusion to political grapes -- Election favors -- Voting: plumpers -- Ballad singers -- Placards -- Key to the Back Stairs -- Allusion to Hervey Redmond, 2nd Viscount Montmorres, 1746?-1797 -- Allusion to John Churchill, , fl. 1784., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G [or C?] R.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Elections, 1784, Canvassing, and Singers
"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 from a tombstone and stands (half length) holding up the horizontal stone. He is surrounded by clouds. He wears hat, ruff, and a gown which differs from that of the living man chiefly in being furred. The figure is copied (in reverse) from the whole length portrait of Alleyne at Dulwich College. On the stone, beneath a coat of arms, is the inscription, a strip along the left being cut off by the lower margin of the print: 'Sacred | the Memory of | Edward Alleyne | Founder of this | College | Life Nov 26 | 1626 Æ 63 | Likewise | Joan his Dear | Wife who F | race 28 June 1623.' Next the Master is a sour-looking profile, and, below, three choristers (full-face), are grinning broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Place of publication based on location of printmaker John Nixon.
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 falling in heavy folds down her back."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., On same sheet: An opera girl of Paris in the character of Diana., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside as [the] act directs
A young woman stands in a city street singing, a tambourine in her one hand, as a man with a satchel peers from behind
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from imprint from the book., Plate from: Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Singers, Street entertainers, and Tambourines
Title devised by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint 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):
Byrne, Charles, 1761-1783,, Cranstoun, Geordie, active 1784,, Fairholme, George, active 1730-1800,, McGowan, John, -1805,, and Watson, Alexander,
"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 catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, preceded by letters "A.B." and followed by "C.C. Prickt lines shew the rising Height.", Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Charmers of the Age See Nichols's Book, 3rd edition p. 258. Given to me by the Right Honble. Willm Windham., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print: There is no scarcer plate in the whole collection. No more copies of it than this & Lord Orford's have been found., and On page 95 in volume 1. Sheet 188 x 263 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barberina, 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Second plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Health spas.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Music, Concerts, Audiences, Musicians, Singers, Obesity, and Sleeping
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 including a violin and other volumes. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Vol. 3 No. 18"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
Nine small scenes, arranged in three rows, showing people and animals engaged in various activities
Description:
Titles etched below images., Publication date based on date assigned by Isaac to other Davison prints., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "44" in upper right corner., and Not in: Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomers, Criminals, Dogs, Farmers, Folk singers, Singers, Swine, and Trained animals
"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 brush, puts her left hand on Fox's shoulder, pointing to a tomb-stone beside her (left) inscribed, beneath its skull and cross-bones, 'Here lies poor C--C--L--RAY'. She sings: "Look neighbours look here lyes Poor C-------ray [Cecil Wray]". Fox, his left hand grasping a crutch-headed stick, turning to North, sings "Dead & turn'd to Clay". North (right), also with a stick, sings "What Old C------l". Through the wings peers the anxious-looking, spectacled profile of Burke (right). Three framed pictures decorate the wall behind the performers: 'The fox who had lost his Tail' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6530), a tail-less fox looking at four others who are discussing the situation. This is flanked by two oval pictures, 'Fox and Crow' (left), the fox looking up longingly at the crow on a branch, and 'Fox and Grapes' (right), a fox on its hind-legs below a vine-branch, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5962."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benifit of the champion and For the benefit of the champion
Description:
Title etched below image., Title continues: ... for admission apply to the D-ss., Date of publication from Grego., Text below title: NB. Gratis to those who wear large tails., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Market women -- Fox and North as market women -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Fox and goose -- Literature: Aesop, fl. 620-564 B.C., Fables -- Music: Catch (round) -- Election favors -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Foxes., and Mounted to 27 x 42 cm.
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."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre., and Description in an unidentified hand added below image on mounting sheet; window mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
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."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre.
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
"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., Printmaker from signature on earlier state: Barlow sculp., Later state, with printing plate cut down on right and left sides, removing part of the ornaments above portrait. Title has also been re-etched to fit the new dimensions, with printmaker's signature and imprint statement removed from the plate in the process. For the earlier state with the imprint "Published as the act directs by W. Locke, Septr. 1st, 1792", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1011.643., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 10., Inlaid to 55 x 38 cm., and Mounted on page 35 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
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., Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 44 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
"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."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4511., and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
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 up against the back of the table. From the ceiling above the middle of the room hangs a birdcage with a yellow bird inside. Under the birdcage sits the singer Miss Anne Ford a guitar in hand; Anne was the daughter of Thomas Ford Clerk of Arraigns, an Old Bailey lawyer. She sings "si tutti de olberi". William, the third Earl of Jersay kneels at her feet and with joined hands says, "Believe my sighs my vows my dear &c" A second crutch lies on the ground beside him; he is much older and suffers from gout. The lawyer Ford enters the room from the left, hat under his arm as he regards the scene with amusement. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title., Plate used for frontispiece Thicknesse, A. Letter from Miss F--d, addressed to a person of distinction. 2nd ed. London, 1761., See Gentleman's magazine, January 1761, pages 33, 79., Watermark., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
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. In his right hand he holds a sheet with a song and seems to be singing
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title from item.
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 queue bound with ribbon. His hat is under his right arm. He wears a large cravat, his shirt sleeves are frilled but his stockings are conspicuously patched."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French marrowbone singer
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4916 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "16" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Reference to Marylebone Gardens.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Oct. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
