Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 150 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 34 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
A young lady, fashionably dressed with the big hair style of the day, walks along a park pathway, towards two elderly gentlemen, one tall and thin, the other quite stout, who approach her from the left. She turns back to the right to smile at another gentleman walking behind her. The lady wears her hair in the extravagant heart-shaped style of the period, with ringlets on the sides, ribbons and ostrich plumes, and her skirt protrudes in the back over a cork bustle
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and "W.B." in lower left of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Parlt. May 4, 1777, by I. Lockington, Shug Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Walking, and Benches
"Two fashionably dressed shopmen supply ladies with pads to extend their dresses at the back. Two other ladies have already been fitted; a fifth, who is buxom, sits on a stool clasping an inflated specimen at which she smiles with satisfaction. Various types of these pads or 'derrières' hang on the wall, and a pile lies on the ground (right). A dog, shaved in the French manner showing very thin hindquarters, is begging. Beneath the title is engraved: 'Derriere begs leave to submit to the attention of that most indulgent part of the Public the Ladies in general, and more especially those to whom Nature in a slovenly moment has been niggardly in her distribution of certain lovely Endowments, his much improved (aridæ nates) or Dried Bums so justly admired for their happy resemblance to nature. Derriere flatters himself that he stands unrivalled in this fashionable article of female Invention, he having spared neither pains nor expence in procuring every possible information on the subject, to render himself competent to the artfully supplying this necessary appendage of female excellence.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with CV [monogram] below.
Publisher:
Published July 11th 1785 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
In a pleasant shaded setting, a fashionable young woman in a large hat sits on a bench under a large tree; she looks to left, lost in thought. In her left hand is a small book titled "Hervey's Medita."
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse., Verse in two columns, two lines each: Such are the charms that flush the cheek, And sprakle in the eye, So from the lovely finish'd form, The transient graces fly., Number '173' appears in lower right corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, print-seller, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Benches, Hats, Outdoor furniture, Trees, and Young women
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
One of two young women walking in the park holds a letter in her right hand, her left hand on her check. The other woman looks at her with a sympathetic gaze. In the background on the left is a house, on the right a bench
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Number '186' lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 10, 1787 by R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Parks, Benches, Women, and Young adults
Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1784]
Call Number:
SH Contents M875 no. 1 Impression 1 Box 110
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title engraved below image., In the upper right corner, above image: "Vol.II. P.508.", First state of the plate, without volume and page numbering, engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Plate reissued, with vol. and page number added, for: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1825, vol. ii., and Printing after 1798.
Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A print of the bench in the shape of a shell, carved in oak from a design by Richard Bentley for Horace Walpole, that was on the grounds of his Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham
Description:
Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 177 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 20.1 x 19 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A print of the bench in the shape of a shell, carved in oak from a design by Richard Bentley for Horace Walpole, that was on the grounds of his Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham
Description:
Title etched below image., First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784., Mounted on page 264 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 18.1 x 17.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
