"A bedroom scene. A fat woman in night-cap and (short) night-dress drinks from a jug taken from the wash-stand (right); the water flows in a stream over her shoulder to the floor. Within a curtained four-poster (left) an aged man is asleep, his feet p...
Alternative Title:
Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst ...
"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
"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 ...
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1806]
Call Number:
806.06.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a drawing room, left, a woman with a very cross expression on her face sits on a settee threading a needle. Before her, a thin man sits on chair staring into the fire, a despairing expression on his face; at his feet are two open books: Much ado ab...
"A bedroom interior. An elderly man kneels beside a chest, trying to shut the lid. A very fat woman stands on it, supporting herself against the end of the curtained bed, another sits on it. An untidy servant, gaping and grinning, stands holding a bro...
Alternative Title:
On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool ...
"In a cottage room a sick man lies in a ramshackle uncurtained bed, on the foot of which sits a woman. Four children stand beside her, two younger ones are by the fire, at which a woman is cooking. Another woman stands at a wash-tub. Sheets hang on a ...
Alternative Title:
Introductory dialogue and Sickness befriends temperance, by the simplicity of diet which it introduces ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, abso...
Alternative Title:
In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A scene in the Strand, showing Ackermann's shop. In the foreground a man and dog chase a hat, followed by a small butcher's boy (left). Two fat women with baskets on their heads watch from the right. On the pavement is an amused muffin-man, ringing h...
Alternative Title:
Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository 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
"A man enters a room where three men and two ladies stand at a dinner-table, waiting for him, all frankly amused at his appearance. He wears a great-coat many sizes too large and knee-breeches which hang to the ankle. His large obese host laughs, hold...
Alternative Title:
Starting for a long ride, on a dinner engagement without a great coat ...
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 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
"Four men and two ladies are seated at dinner, a small child on each side of the host (left). A footman (right) brings in a steaming haunch of venison, followed by a fat maid-servant with a second dish. All the diners register extreme disgust."--Briti...
Alternative Title:
Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particularly fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A man, hat in hand, sits on a cat, which was on a low chair beside the fire. His hostess, a lean and ugly old maid, tugs angrily at a bell-rope; another cat sits on the back of her armchair; a dog barks. An ugly (?) maid-servant of similar type enter...
Alternative Title:
Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A fat gouty invalid sits full face in a high-backed armchair beside his bedroom fire (left). He registers anguish as a young naval officer seizes his left hand, and tramples on his left. foot. An old nurse, followed by a man (right), pursue the offic...
Alternative Title:
When in the gout - receiving the ruinous salutation of a muscular friend ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
"Two ladies, fashionable and pretty, stand by the door of a neo-Gothic lodge or gate-house. One addresses a gardener who tugs at his hair; two elderly men (left) walk off to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A narrow lane with high steep banks is blocked by a haycart (right); a man lies on his back on the hay, asleep. A well-dressed man on a spirited horse rides just behind the cart, clenching his fists with impatience. Behind him (left) rides his groom;...
Alternative Title:
Following on horse back a slow cart through an endless narrow lane ...
"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 ...
"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 ...
