Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
"George IV sits fishing under a little pavilion; his rod is a sceptre, larger than that in Britis Museum Satires No. 15126. He has hooked a frog, which Lady Conyngham, kneeling beside him, is about to scoop with a landing-net. She says: Oh what a beautifull fish! I think its something of the Gudgeon kind, but a most Noble one. A large kingfisher stands on the opposite bank watching them. The King sits on an ornate stool, resting a gouty leg on a smaller one. He wears a bell-shaped top-hat, the plain high-collared coat of recent portraits with knee-breeches. Beside him are creel and bait-box. The pavilion is merely an ornate canopy for his stool, decorated with onion domes like that of the Pavilion, bells, and a crown. Lady Conyngham wears a décolletée dress with long gloves, and roses in her hair. Behind is a realistic view of the Cottage, with a peacock in front of it, and Windsor Castle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: top hat -- Fishing net., and Watermark: Fellows 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. June, 1826 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Virginia Water (England : Lake), and Windsor Great Park (England),
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
A caricature of George IV fishing on Virginia Water, using his scepter as a rod, watched by a kingfisher and a wagtail. On the end of his line is a frog, which is being netted by Lady Conyngham, his mistress
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Another version, probably a copy, of a print published June 1826 by S.W. Fores with the shorter title "A king-fisher"; see no. 15137 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Fairburn published a similar print two months earlier (May 1826), entitled "A king-fisher" and depicting the king fishing alone; see no. 15126 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Laid down on card.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jul. 13, 1826, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Windsor Castle,
BEIN Sy4 +743E Copy 1: General t.p. wanting. Binder's title: Edwards's Natural history., Extra illus.: v. 2, p. [106-107], Issued in parts., Paged continuously: v. 1: 2 p.l., xx, 52 p.; v. 2: viii, 53-105 p. [app. [107]-128 p.]; v. 3: 2 p.l., 106-157 p.; v. 4: 4 p.l., 158-248 p., and T.p. for v. 2-4 reads, with minor changes: A natural history of birds. Most of which have not been figur'd or describ'd.
Publisher:
Printed for the author, at the College of physicians,
Subject (Name):
Durand, David, 1680-1763
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Birds--Pictorial works, Ornithology--Pictorial works, Zoology--Pictorial works, and Zoology--Pre-Linnean works
Paradice for fools, Paradise for fools, Nocturnal trip, or, The disciple of Johanna benighted, and Disciple of Johanna benighted
Description:
Title from caption below images., Questionable attribution to Williams from British Museum catalogue., Three designs arranged horizontally on one plate, each with an individual title etched above; design on left entitled "The summons to paradice," center design entitled "The set-down," and design on right entitled "The return to reason.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Costume, 1814 -- Male costume: Night cap -- Candlesticks -- Female costume: Stays., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 258.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner., and Companion print: A visit to the grandfather.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description:
Title from item., Plate reworked from the earlier state which also published by Sayer under the same title and on the same day., Companion print: A visit to the grandfather., and Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests
