Leaf 77. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have falle...
Alternative Title:
While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Intoxication, Manners & customs, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, and Vomiting
Leaf 50. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A rectangular plot enclosed by palings and gate and surrounded by trees outside an old-fashioned country house (left). The plot has four rectangles of turf set in gravel which a fat man in a dressing-gown with a cloth tied over his head is rolling, a...
Alternative Title:
Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Fences, Gates, Trees, Dwellings, Dumbbells, Obesity, Dogs, Woodcutting, Saws, and Axes
"An oafish footman (left), tilting forward a chair, shows in a party of country visitors to a fashionable young couple. The room is in Strawberry Hill Gothic with a high French window wide open and giving on a garden. Portfolios lie against a Gothic c...
Alternative Title:
While deeply, delightfully, and as you hope safely engaged at home in the morning ...
"An elderly couple walk arm-in-arm, preceded by a dog and a frightened footman carrying a lantern. The man is fat, the woman thin. She wears pattens and her petticoats are kilted up; he holds a small umbrella. Behind (left) is a neo-Gothic house among...
Alternative Title:
Losing your way on foot at night in a storm of wind and rain ...
"Two elderly men, and four ladies, two very fat, are scattered over miry ground, some ankle-deep, and without shoes. One man hold his shoe, a young woman retrieves one from the mud. Four scampering pigs, beset by a dog, and two hissing geese, suggest ...
Alternative Title:
While you are out in a walking-party, after heavy rains ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1806, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Two men wearing overcoats stand facing each other in a driving wind. In the background a man and woman are driven before the blast."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Walking in a wind that cuts to the bone, with a narrative companion ...
"A fashionably dressed young man leads a plain woman under an archway in the Tower of London. They are followed by a young man between two girls, plainly dressed and unsophisticated, and a little boy who gapes at an elegant sentry (left); there are al...
Alternative Title:
Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London ...
"A woman stands at a wash-tub, turning to scream at her husband who sits in glum silence plying the bellows at a fire emitting smoke which obscures much of the room. An infant in a cradle (right) yells, as does another seated on the ground and brandis...
Alternative Title:
Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a hottentot in a craal ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Fox-hunters, tipsily hilarious, at the dinner-table, with bottles, glasses, and punch-bowl. One stands on a chair giving a toast (left), another straddles the backs of two chairs, as if riding; he shouts, flourishing a whip. They wear or wave hunting...
Alternative Title:
Dining, and passing the whole evening with a party of foxhunters ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A crowd outside the lamp-lit theatre door (right) set in a colonnade; slanting rain streams towards them. A stout man and woman stand together, looking round in distress, while a ragged link-boy shouts at them. Younger ladies stand behind. A prostitu...
Alternative Title:
After the play, on a raw wet night, with a party of ladies, fretting and freezing ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
