Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Numbered 'Ptale [i.e., plate] 15' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 35' in upper right corner., Two lines of text below image: D--n [i.e., damn] thee don't play thy tricks with me ... ., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., State with title on plate. Cf. No. 8944 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Food: ham -- Slang: 'gammon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Gardens, Lamps, Farmers, Restaurants, Tearooms, and Waiters
"Bird's eye view over Vauxhall Gardens, with figures surrounding bandstand and the Prince of Wales's pavillion in centre, triumphal arches at right and supper boxes at either side of the gardens, the conical roof of the 'Elegant music room' at extreme left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
General prospect of Vauxhall Gardens and Vüe d'etaillee des Jardins de Vaux Hall
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with publication line burnished from plate. For an earlier state published in 1751 by John Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.5465., Date of publication based on that of earlier state. See British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "128" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),, England, and London.
A young man sleeps reclining on a chaise-longue, his wig removed and placed on a chair to the left. A richly dressed young woman standing behind the chair leans forward looking at him with a sceptical expression on her face. On the other side, another young woman leans close to him, upsetting in the process a table on which a black servant was about to place a tea tray. In the background on the right, a serving maid walks into the room, her arms raised in alarm
Description:
Title from item., Second line of title and publisher from an impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of the second line of title and imprint., and One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
Gear, J. W. (John William), 1806-1866, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1833?]
Call Number:
833.00.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
C. H. Simpson Esquire
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Text below title: "Welcome to the Royal property.", Attribution below imprint statement: W. Day lithr. to the King, 17 Gate St. Lin. Inn Fds., In lower right corner: Price 2s., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J.W. Gear, 166 Strand, near the Strand Theatre & sold at Vauxhall Gardens and W. Day Lithr. to the King, 17 Gate St. Lin. Inn Fds
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
At Vauxhall Gardens, the Master of Ceremonies, C.H. Simpson greets a man in uniform as fashionable visitors look on. Projected in the background is a view of his colossal likeness, in variegated lamps, taken in the Gardens on the 19th of August (the night of his benefit).
Description:
Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: To. C.H. Simpson, Esqr. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall ... on the night of his benefit ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 1s. 6d. Plain. 2s. 6d cold.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed with loss of plate mark: sheet 25.3 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
Published by W. Kidd, 14 Chandos Stt. West Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Simpson, Christopher Herbert, 1770-1835, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Elegantly dressed guests dine outdoors at Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Harrison's British classicks. Volume VI : containing The connoisseur, The citizen of the world, and The babler. London : Printed for Harrison & Co. ..., 1786., Plate number etched in lower left corner., Inlaid to 38 x 55 cm., and Mounted on page 119 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Name):
Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768. and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
Title written in watercolor at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 87 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
An advertisement for a joint exhibition at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, of a panaroma of London "painted on 10,000 square feet of canvas and displaying nearly 100,000 figures, 500 of the principal characters on the foreground the size of life."
Alternative Title:
Great Room, Spring Gardens. Novelty! Marshall's grand historical peristrephic panorama of the ceremony of the coronation ...
Description:
Title from first line of text., The exhibition described here and a sketched version of this text can be seen in Charles Williams' satirical print: The moving panorama, or, Spring Garden rout. London : Pubd. June, 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly, [June 1823]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J.B. Laidlaw, printer, 5 Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
"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)
Title from item., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 25, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Tea table -- Tea service -- Maidservant -- Domestic service: black boy -- Chairs -- Furnishings: carpet -- Window curtains.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
