A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
On a stage a man in a hat extracts a tooth from a patient as a clown taunts him; the audience on three sides of the stage look on with looks of horror or amusement
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Dentistry, Audiences, Clowns, and Pain
"Interior view of the room, looking down from the gallery during a sale; a large round lightwell in centre of ceiling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 45., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 139., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"First panel: policeman holding out his hands towards a man's pocket; second panel: politicians, common citizens, King and Queen trying to find the best place in a stand."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Interview at Ramsgate
Description:
Titles from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower right corner of first panel of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below title of second panel: The above is a tolerable representation of the Tory rory, tag rag, ragamuffin, rubbish, and rabble ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "111" in brown ink in lower left corner of first panel of design., Mounted on green paper backing; pasted on verso of mount are four small engraved portraits, each trimmed in half, the untrimmed statements of responsibility indicating that one was engraved by J. Rogers and two others were engraved after J. Kennerley and Sir J. Reynolds respectively., and No. 111.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
A bearded man in a riding habit with a top hat races against a dustman with a brush in his hand who rides a donkey. A crowd on the left cheer them on.
Description:
Title from text above image., Eight lines of verse below image: Since jockeying the general's now all the rage, to escape from the panic, levanters are sage ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1826, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Horse racing, Riding habits, and Social classes
"Interior of Smirke's replacement for Holland's burnt-out theatre; the stage set, and audience seated in the four tiers of galleries and pit, but the actors not yet on stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 100., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 263.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Interior view of the auditorium of the Opera House in Haymarket, London; a performance taking place; actors dancing on stage, the audience watching from six tiered galleries on either side, and from the pit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 59., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 213.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Theatre (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Opera houses, Interiors, Auditoriums, and Audiences
A fire-and-brimstone preacher haranguing an unhappy-looking audience. An assistant holds up a parasol to shelter him
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly after Thomas Rowlandson. An apparent earlier state of this print, without the title and with a thicker border, is attributed to Rowlandson in the Philiadelphia Museum of Art collection database (Accession Number: 1960-139-85)., Date of publication suggested in dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
