"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of British Museum Satires No. 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (left) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (right) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Musical Instruments -- Furniture -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Bell-Pulls., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.9 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 39.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Handbill with a caption title., With a woodcut showing opened and closed umbrellas on either side of the royal coat of arms above title., and Ms. notes on verso: calculations in an unknown hand. For further information, consult library staff.
"Three women walking in profile to the right beside the sea or a lake. Their head-dresses are caricatures of the prevailing fashion. The foremost walks with a closed parasol on a long stick like a shepherdess's crook; in her right hand is a small bag or basket. Her hair is in a pyramid, with curls, on it is a lace cap with lappets, and a flat hat trimmed with ribbons and feathers. She is followed by a very thin woman, whoise pyramid is decorated with more curls but with a smaller cap and hat, she holds a closed fan; behind walks a short stout woman with a frizzed wig bound by a ribbon. The dresses show the prevailing fashion for skirts, straight in front, puffed out at the back and showing the ankles. Miss Tittup, a character in Garrick's "Bon Ton", was played by Eliza Farren ... The tall thin lady is perhaps intended for Miss Farren..."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Misses Dumplin Ducktail and Tittup returned from watering
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: V. 2, 68.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly No. 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Mineral waters, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Umbrellas
"Heading to printed verses ... A young woman sits a donkey which is in the sea, refusing to move; she flourishes her parasol. Holiday-makers stand on the sea-shore watching with amusement. In the background one lady is being thrown from her donkey, another is galloping. In the verses a she-ass relates to a mere beast of burden the delights of frolicking by the sea: 'Fashion here tells young lasses to ride On the best walk that ever was seen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title and imprint statement below image., Artist from the British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three columns of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Brother Jack I am going to inform you , of things that ne'er enter'd your head, and I hope that narration will charm you, wherever you're driven or led ..., and Plate numbered '167' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 25th May 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, No. 53, Fleet-Street, London
Three couples and a young boy are picnicking outdoors. The large women with exaggerated sleeves and large bosoms exclaims: "Lauk, how hot the sun is to my back!" Everyone is oblivious to the fact that a fire is raging under the kettle behind her
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 269.
"Two men skating, one of them holding an umbrella that hits the other on the nose, his hat falling on a hole on the ice to the right and he's about to fall on his back; in the right background two men pulling another on skates."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Just going to "drop in"
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication date based on watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1826.
A fire-and-brimstone preacher haranguing an unhappy-looking audience. An assistant holds up a parasol to shelter him
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly after Thomas Rowlandson. An apparent earlier state of this print, without the title and with a thicker border, is attributed to Rowlandson in the Philiadelphia Museum of Art collection database (Accession Number: 1960-139-85)., Date of publication suggested in dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
"John Bull, a fat "cit", is beset by descending water covered with the word 'Tax', many times repeated, in which dogs, cats, and pitchforks fall with violence. His eyes and spectacles are transfixed by a pitchfork inscribed 'Window Tax'; the shaft of another inscribed 'Malt & Hops Tax' sticks in his bleeding mouth, dislodging teeth. His paunch is pierced with a third fork; the handle, inscribed 'Tax ...' [&c. &c], supports an angry cat, spitting 'Tax ...' Another falling cat knocks off his wig, which emits a cloud of powder inscribed 'Powder Tax'. His gouty feet, in slashed shoes, are stabbed by three pitchforks: 'Corn Laws' [the biggest, cf. British Museum Satires No. 15510]; 'Leather Tax'; 'Land Tax'. A 'Dog Tax' strikes down J. B.'s dog, its collar inscribed 'Poor Tray'. Another dog worries a cat (left). J. B. holds up a derelict umbrella, inscribed 'Trade', pierced by many prongs and useless."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Raining cats dogs and pitchforks with the prongs downward
Description:
Title etched above image., Caption title below image., and Text below caption title: It must be the fault of the weather - for when it rains - it rains taxes - & when it shines - it shines taxes.
Publisher:
Pub. March 20, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal attachs, Cats, Dogs, Pitchforks, and Umbrellas
"Promenaders in Hyde Park illustrate these titles. [1] A dandy walks, right to left, jauntily rakish, holding a lorgnette and glove in a gloved hand. He wears a large bell-shaped top-hat, beneath which projects a great tuft of curled hair. Under his arm is a rolled umbrella. [2] A Quaker, in a shallow broad-brimmed hat, walks primly (right to left) with a young (twin) daughter on each arm. He holds a large gamp umbrella, fastened and point downwards. [3] A thin man wearing a long greatcoat and seedy top-hat, walks (left to right) with an expression of acute melancholy. He trails behind him an unfastened umbrella. He faces heavy wind and slanting rain. Beside him is a small dead tree. Near each is an appropriate dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Premium, par, and discount
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1822 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Dogs, Dandies, British, Parks, Pedestrians, and Umbrellas
