Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[3 January 1774]
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large mathematical volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Publisher:
Printed and publish'd as the act directs, 3d Jany. 1774, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 May 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large mathematical volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 3 Jan. 1774 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Watermark: I. Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed and publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Leaf 19. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a youth is being examined by a Cambridge don while his father looks on and an old servant and student laugh."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the design
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin., A different, probably earlier, version of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bust of Cicero, Marcus Tullius, B.C. 106-43 -- Literature: Ovid, B.C. 43-A.D. 18 -- College room at Cambridge -- Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures., On leaf 19., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, June 10th, 1772, accor. to act
"The undergraduate (right) finds himself face to face with the Master who is walking with a Fellow across the College quadrangle. He stops, putting his hand to his cap, while his dog tries to take cover behind his legs and gown. A college servant behind him (right) raises a broom to smite the intruding dog. The background is part of the side of the Chapel or Hall with the rooms at right angles to it. After the title: The Master's Wig the guilty wight appals Who brings his Dog within the College walk.' 22 October 1806
Description:
Title etched below image., State without imprint as described in British Museum catalogue no. 10641: Publish'd October 22d 1806-by Hh. Humphrey- No27 St James's Street London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of caption text enclosed in large brackets following title: The Master Wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his dog within the college walls., and Print numbered with ms. anotation in upper margin: 154.
Publisher:
Hannah Humphrey?
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Students, Teachers, and Universities & colleges
"View in an oval frame, showing the school building, part of Christ's Hospital on Newgate Street, London; a school master with a group of boys in coats in foreground, a church steeple in the background; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a separate plate; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image., Heading to nine lines of engraved text on a separate plate (7.4 x 17.4 cm), printed beneath plate with image: Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London., Citation at bottom of text on separate plate: See Pennants London, 3 edition., Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London : Pubd. by J. Sewell [etc.], 1791[-1800]., and Bound in opposite page 206 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1 - 1793 by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
The wide street, lit by a full moon, is filled by a wild fight between undergraduates and their supporters (for whom gowns had been obtained by looting a tailor's shop) and 'bargees, and the butchers, and labourers'. A stage-coach, Old Fly, crowded inside and out, is wedged in the crowd, the outside passengers are assailed by a man in a gown. A woman empties a pot from an upper window; a lantern, hats, &c., fly through the air."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford, Battle of the togati and the town raff in the High Street Oxford, and Town and gown
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Students, Butchers, Crowds, Fights, Occupations, Stagecoaches, and Tailors
Title from item., Date derived from series dates., Place of publication derived from street address., Below image: Par Gavarni., Above image: Les Etudians de Paris. 22., Originally published in Le Charivari., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Medical students, Spouses, Skeletons, Fear, and Students
"An undergraduate leans from a bow window holding a rope attached to a basket containing a gaily dressed courtesan. In its descent it has knocked down the Proctor, who sits on the pavement, the woman falling on top of him. A 'bull-dog' with a constable's staff flashes a lantern on the window and on the woman; another stands just behind. An undergraduate watches from roudnd the corner of the building (right); a well-dressed couple hurry down the side street, looking back with interest."--British Museum catalogue. Proof before aquatint and before steeple added in the distance on the right
Alternative Title:
Oxford bull-dogs detecting brazen smugglers
Description:
Title, printmaker and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For published state see: No. 14930 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 170, vol. 1. Church steeple added to finished plate, in back ground.
Blackmantle stands with a trunk marked 'B.B.' at his feet as he gazes at the inscription scrawled on the ceiling of a bare and dilapidated room. An old college scout bows obsequiously, holding out a long paper headed 'A list of necessaries'. A hideous old bed-maker raises a cloud of dust with her broom. Two dandified men, one in cap and gown, stare in quizzically from outside the door (right). On the left is a pile of broken furniture, books, &c., with a box inscribed 'C. Rattle Esqr.'; a college cap is spiked on the leg of a broken chair with bellows (inscribed RC), Latin grammer, lexicon. A torn map of Oxford sags from the wall, with a print of a pugilist (Tom Cribb). A cupboard door is broken from its hinges; on it a target is painted, spattered with bullet marks. In the grate is a bust of Cicero, upside down
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. 14929 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 169, vol. 1.
36 black and white photographs of the Atelier Populaire at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts and scenes of the general strike and student uprisings in Paris, May 1968 by Marc Riboud, Philippe Vermès, and unidentified photographers, Box 1: 18 photographs printed in 8 x 10 inch format depicting multiple stages of poster production at the Atelier Populaire in the printmaking studios of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. 16 of the photographs were taken by Philippe Vermès and have his and his studio's ink stamps on the versos; many have annotations suggesting a 1998 printing date and linking them to the exhibition "Paris 1968: Posters from the Atelier Populaire", August 31-October 1, 1998 at Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York. The remaining two photographs in this group are inscribed on the versos "Philippe Vermès" and "Marc Riboud", and were likely printed circa 1968, and Box 2: 18 photographs printed in 12 x 16 inch format, taken by an unidentified photographer or photographers. The photographs depict scenes from the Paris general strike, student uprisings, and street protests of May 1968, including police dressed in riot equipment, streets barricaded with burning cars, protesters wearing protection against tear gas and standing on street barricades, and student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit addressing crowds with a megaphone
Description:
The Atelier Populaire ("Popular Workshop") was established in Paris in May 1968 by students from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts to support the ongoing protests and strikes then occuring in France. The members were students, faculty, workers, and artists who used the school's printmaking studios to anonymously produce lithographed and screen-printed political posters that were distributed for free., Marc Riboud (1923-2016) was a French photojournalist., Philippe Vermès (1942-) is a French photographer and one of the co-founders of the Atelier Populaire., Inscriptions in French., From the Johan Kugelberg Collection of Paris May 1968., and Inscriptions and ink stamps on photograph versos.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Paris, and Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, Riboud, Marc., Vermès, Philippe, 1942-, Atelier populaire, and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
Subject (Topic):
Art students, College students, Political activity, General Strike, France, 1968, Labor movements, Lithography, Political posters, French, Political violence, Print workshops, Printmakers, Prints, Technique, Protest movements, Riots, Screen process printing, Serigraphy, and Students
