"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...
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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 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...
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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 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...
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In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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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...
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Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a hottentot in a craal ...
Description:
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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...
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Dining, and passing the whole evening with a party of foxhunters ...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"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 ...
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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
"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...
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Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particularly fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare ...
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Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 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...
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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
"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...
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Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst ...
"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
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Necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence ...
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"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 ...
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Introductory dialogue and Sickness befriends temperance, by the simplicity of diet which it introduces ...
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Pub. Jany. 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...
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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
"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
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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...
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Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London ...
"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...
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Losing your way on foot at night in a storm of wind and rain ...
"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...
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While deeply, delightfully, and as you hope safely engaged at home in the morning ...
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...
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While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Intoxication, Manners & customs, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, and Vomiting
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...
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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...
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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
"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;...
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Following on horse back a slow cart through an endless narrow lane ...
"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...
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On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool ...
"An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a...
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Miseries of traveling and Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Falling, Accidents, Bodies of water, Horses, Dogs, Geese, Pedestrian bridges, and Pails
"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...
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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
"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
"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
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...