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 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 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
"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 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
"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 ...
"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 ...