"Skeffington skips forward (left to right); his sharp-featured profile emerges, grinning, from a sharp-pointed collar and swathed cravat. His hair is swept forward in careful disarray, which, with his heavy whisker, goes ill with the black bag which flies outwards. His dress is a curious hybrid of embroidered court dress and knee-breeches, with the recent fashions of gathered sleeves ('Jean de Bry', see BMSat 9425), bulky neck-cloth, and cut-away tails showing bunches of seals. Below the neck-cloth is a double lace shirt-frill. See BMSat 9440."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
So Skiffy skipped on with his wonted grace
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Birthday Ball. See Morning Herald, Jany. 20th, 1800., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Wigs: bag wig.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot. Both wear round hats of slightly differing shapes. Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered, and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials. A large open book (left) is 'Essay on Blacking'; by it are bottles labelled 'Mr Broomhills Recipe' and 'The Princes Recipe', and a mixing-pot. Two volumes (right) are 'Chemistry'; on them are bottles labelled 'Pine Apple' and 'Spirit of Salt'. There are also two brushes, a polishing pad, a cake of 'Holdsworth's' blacking, and a broken bottle of 'Royal Blacking'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 56 x 37 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Skeffington, in back view, stands squarely, but looks smiling to the right, his sharp features in profile. He wears a round hat, powdered hair, with a dark whisker, a much-wrinkled Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), breeches, and top-boots with spike toes. His coat-collar and shoulders are thickly coated with hair-powder (cf. BMSat 8190). His attitude is that of one displaying his ungainly costume. He faces a path which leads to a distant gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Top-boots with spike toes -- Gibbets.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
The quadrangle at Tattersalls (1823) is filled with groups of betting men, 'the greater part ... are portraits' (p. xx). The three men on the extreme left are Mr. Tanfield, Lord Sefton, and Colonel Hylton Jolliffe. In the extreme right corner is Sir L. Skeffington; near him, but not identifiable, is John Gully the ex-pugilist. A Jew sells wares from a basket-tray. Over the doorway: Houses must not be taken away without being paid for
Alternative Title:
Heroes of the turf paying & receiving at Tattersals and Heroes of the turf paying and receiving at Tattersals
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For published state see, no. 14944 in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1824 by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gully, John, 1783-1863., Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850., and Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Horse buyers, Horse trading, Crowds, and Street vendors
"Fashionable town loungers (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8377, &c), badly damaged in dress and limb, walk on a broad pavement. In the foreground are five figures, three in back view; all have one arm in a sling, two have a leg supported at the knee, two have bandaged eyes. Their coats and hats are riddled with holes and rents. The man on the extreme right is Skeffington, copied in reverse from British Museum Satires No. 9440, but wearing a large cocked hat. He looks round at Penn, copied in reverse from British Museum Satires No. 9441. From Penn's pocket issues a paper: '[word illegible] for Boxing'. Under the foot of the man on the extreme left, who is gazing at a lady through an eye-glass, is a paper: 'Leakes Pills' (absent in British Museum Satires No. 9447 a). Next him is Lord Kirkcudbright. Behind are other members of the 'Battalion', freely sketched and similarly damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hospital staff from Holland!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: ... where folios of carecat[ures] lent for the ev[ening]., Temporary local subject terms: Bond Street -- Male dress: coats, 1799 -- Reference to Holland -- Medicine: reference to Leake's pills -- Sholto Henry (Mclellan) Kirkcudbright (1771-1827)., and Watermark: Meutum[?] 1796
"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see BMSat 9698. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, grossly corpulent, sits in an armchair asleep, his feet on the table, a pipe in one hand. Nearly opposite his feet is the chair of state, on the table; on the empty seat is the Prince's cocked hat with triple plume, his motto 'Ich Di[en]' within the crown. The chair is backed by an elaborate architectural canopy with ornate pilasters on which swags of fruit and flowers are carved in relief: (left) grapes and lemons (materials for punch), and (right) roses and shamrocks. Above the seat are figures of Britannia and Erin, kissing, standing on a curved base inscribed 'The Union'. On the back of the chair are two clasped hands, elaborately irradiated. The chair is surrounded by broken wine-bottles; its former occupant, the Prince, lies on his back under the table, one arm flung over Lord Stanhope, who lies unconscious, clasping a bottle. On the Prince's stomach rest two feet in shoes with spiked, upcurved toes. In the foreground, opposite the Prince, Norfolk lies with his head against the seat of his overturned chair, looking very ill. All who are not incapacitated or fighting are toasting the Union (except Lansdowne and Parr, see below). On the table sits Moira, dressed as in BMSat 9386, a glass of wine held high above his head, his right leg thrust forward, while he stretches back to take the hand of Lord Clermont, [This is clear from the resemblance to BMSat 9575, and is supported by the shamrock which he and the other Irishmen wear. It is confirmed by 'London und Paris', vii. 80, where it is said that he and Moira were once bitter enemies. He is identified by Grego as General Manners, see BMSat 9288.] seated next Sheridan on the farther side of the table. Facing Clermont and in back view, Camelford sits erect, wearing a Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425) and small round hat, with cropped hair. [The identification (that of Grego) is confirmed by BMSat 9716, Wright and Evans give Burdett, E. Hawkins 'Mr Manners'.] Beside him (right) two waiters bring in a full tub of Whiskey Punch, which they spill; one treads on the face of the prostrate Nicholls. Near the end of the table (right) sits Derby, his large head and crumpled features grotesquely caricatured. In the foreground on the extreme right Montagu Mathew (as in BMSat 9560) and Skeffington (as in BMSat 9557) advance dancing arm-in-arm, with tipsy grace, the former with a bottle in each hand; one reversed, the other, held above his head, splashes its contents over his partner's uplifted glass. (The pair, according to 'London und Paris', vii, 1801, p. 76, were known as inseparables in fashionable London resorts, cf. BMSat 9755.) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse on either side of title: "We'll join hand in hand, all party shall cease, "and glass after glass, shall our union increase ..., and 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30 x 44.2 cm, on sheet 31.0 x 46.9 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, and Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
The quadrangle at Tattersalls (1823) is filled with groups of betting men, 'the greater part ... are portraits' (p. xx). The three men on the extreme left are Mr. Tanfield, Lord Sefton, and Colonel Hylton Jolliffe. In the extreme right corner is Sir L. Skeffington; near him, but not identifiable, is John Gully the ex-pugilist. A Jew sells wares from a basket-tray. Over the doorway: Houses must not be taken away without being paid for
Alternative Title:
Heroes of the turf paying & receiving at Tattersals and Heroes of the turf paying and receiving at Tattersals
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. 14944 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: Vol. 1, page 370. "Subscription Room" left out on sign between windows on final plate.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gully, John, 1783-1863., Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850., and Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Horse buyers, Horse trading, Crowds, and Street vendors
