Leaf 8v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, balancing a basket on her head, stands in the foreground facing the viewer on the side of the street in front of Tron Kirk and an adjacent building. In the background, right, another peddler carrying a barrel on his back walks away
Alternative Title:
Tron Church, High Street
Description:
Title from verses etched below image.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Wash tubs, Dairy products, and Churches
"A fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Fals...
Alternative Title:
Cure for love
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Eyeglasses, Feet, Fireplaces, Medical procedures & techniques, Older people, Slippers, and Wash tubs
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Eyeglasses, Feet, Fireplaces, Medical procedures & techniques, Older people, Slippers, and Wash tubs
"A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with e...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat,...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image
"Queen Caroline as Lucifera sits in a coach made up of objects which figured in the evidence against her. The driver is Bergami, whip in hand (thus representing Satan) on a high box seat; he turns to hand a bottle of wine to the Queen who holds a sack...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
"Queen Caroline as Lucifera sits in a coach made up of objects which figured in the evidence against her. The driver is Bergami, whip in hand (thus representing Satan) on a high box seat; he turns to hand a bottle of wine to the Queen who holds a sack...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
"John Bull, an ungainly yokel, short and stout, stands between Melville (left) and Pitt (right). Melville, wearing Highland dress, sits full face, vomiting a shower of guineas (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10392, 10400) into a tub. Pitt, rather b...
Alternative Title:
John Bulls recipe
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Rapine, Great Knaves Acre, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Vomiting, Coins, Sick persons, Books, Wash tubs, and Drinking vessels
"Italian witnesses, in a large bare room or warehouse, where three are being washed in a large bath by Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Liverpool. The bath is inscribed: 'Waters of Oblivion. Non mi Recordo [sic]--Ministerial Washing Tub--!' The three witnes...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1820 by T. Dolby, 132 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A comely young woman, the centre figure, stands bare-legged in a wash-tub, holding her petticoats high, and smiling coyly. Behind (left), another woman with kilted petticoats steps into a tub, looking over her shoulder. In the foreground (right) a ma...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Restrike, with remnants of a burnished imprint statement above image. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1809, see no. 11476 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
"A balloon about to rise from the ground encircled by three tiers of galleries or narrow platforms, protected by railings. Behind the railings sit the passengers. In the highest tier are three ladies notorious at that time for their amours ...: Grace ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23, 1783, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799, Graham, James, 1745-1794, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Katterfelto, Gustavus, -1799, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Leaf 30. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
Subject (Topic):
Fire extinguishers, Gems, Coins, Purses, Cornucopias, Children, Wash tubs, Soaps, Brooms & brushes, Shoemakers, Lotteries, and Taxes
Opposite page 214. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A courtesan stands at a wash-tub, washing her last shift. She wears a cap over ringlets in curl-papers and a tattered petticoat, a shawl covers her naked shoulders. The room is squalid, with plaster falling from the bricks. Across the fireplace stock...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Interiors, Wash tubs, Fireplaces, Hosiery, Corsets, and Cats
Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, ...
Description:
Title inscribed beneath central image.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles), grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to give...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Oct. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles), grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to give...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Oct. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles),, grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to giv...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
"A version of British Museum Satires No. 1231 with the additon of, to left behind the pulpit, a table on which lies a bag from which fall a bishop's mitre, papal tiara, cross, orb, broken sceptre and a divided crown, and at the foot of the pulpit, an ...
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Bags, Pulpits, Miters, Scepters, Crowns, and Wash tubs