"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
Leaf 75. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Numerous figures clamouring to look at caricatures in window of Martinet's printshop, 124 rue Coq Saint Honoré, Paris; the shop sign is given as 'Marinet marchand's destampes', a sign at far left advertises 'Publications de Mons Tegg grande marchande des caricature Anglo[..]'; a copy in reverse of the lithograph by Bergeret."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1805-1819 by Thomas Tegg, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1989,0930.217., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 75 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Printing industry, Clothing & dress, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Signs (Notices)
"Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in British Museum Satire no. 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he holds her left hand smiling, and pointing at one of the prints with his right hand. She turns aside smiling behind her fan. Two men (right) stand in conversation; one (right) points out to the other, who is in back view, both hands held up in astonishment, one of the prints in the top row, apparently that of Wesley. Other prints print of John Bunyan and George Whitefield. A dog befouls the foot of the man facing the shop-window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below title, in two colums: While macaroni and his mistress here, At other characters in picture, sneer, To the vain couple is but little known, How much deserving ridicule their own.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned grocer's shop. A plump woman stands on the ground behind the shafts, naked between waist and stockings, the hole in the floor of the gig having scraped up her petticoats. A scene of violent action: one man holds the head of the restive horse. Men (l.) rush to look at the unfortunate woman who screams with upraised arms, as does her husband who stands with his back to his shop. A woman furiously clutches the hair of a too-eager spectator (r.); a barking dog leaps towards Mrs. Figg. Over the shop-door hangs a conical sign: 'Old Sugar loaf.' A board over the door is inscribed 'Grocery Sweetmeats Hams Tongues Starch Plumbs Figs Vermicelli Tripe Barley Pickles Mustard Soap Hogs Puddings &c Sold here by Peter Figg.' In a bow window are many jars, &c, two inscribed 'Mustard' and 'Virgin Honey'. Above it are two large pot-plants. An agitated woman screams from a casement window over the door. On the house is a placard: 'Cattle Life Insurance Cow Lane Smithfield.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from Grego., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: NB. Regimentals & naval uniforms made in the neatest manner., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Miller, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Dry-goods, Dry goods stores, and Window displays
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City of London
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.46., Text at bottom: N.B. Frontage 11 feet - depth - 8 feet., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 437 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a book. On the right, a man sits in a chair as a lady discusses her choices with the man behind the counter who reaches for a book below a sign 'Stamp'. Behind him is another sign "Just published [...]" An older woman with a walking stick approaches the counter on the right, followed by a Black servant and a dog. The windows are filled with books and prints. Through the open door a woman with an umbrella is silhouetted; to the left another sign "History Westminster and its monuments."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from the volume in which this plate was issued., Plate from: Poetical sketches of Scarborough / illustrated by twenty-one engravings ... made upon the spot by J. Green and etched by T. Rowlandson. London : Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggens, 1813., Aquatint probably added to this plate and others in the volume by J.C. Stadler and J. Bluck. See: Hardie, M. English coloured books., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, partially trimmed: [J. Wha]tman [18]14.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of seven men standing on the street in front of the window of Matthew Darly's shop looking at his caricature publications in the window. On the door are plates inscribed "39" "Dar".
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
