Caroline lies on a sofa within a tent, dressed in her nightclothes and wearing a miniature of Bergami around her neck; her feathered hat rests on the ground, and on the small table beside her sit bottles of "Brandy" and "Essense of Bergamo" and a container of "Rouge". She smiles and looks over at Bergami, who sits beside her, his slippers and hat discarded on the floor below. Above, a man reaches into the tent to take a lit candle in the candlestick from Bergami, who hands it off with a pleased expression on his face. Beside him on the sofa is a book entitled "The Pilgrim's Guide".
Alternative Title:
Tentation
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D17898a)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of text below title: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, put out the light, and then -. Othello., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Sofas, Miniatures (Paintings), Bottles, Candles, and Books
"A scene in the House of Commons, showing the Ministerial benches, with the Speaker's Chair and the Table partly cut off by the right margin. The Speaker (Manners Sutton) and one of the Clerks are just within the design. Castlereagh is speaking; he stands in profile to the right, hat in hand, with the Pope on his shoulders. The Pope holds crosier and keys, and wears an odd tiara. A demon crouches on his shoulders dressed as an acolyte, but displaying a cloven hoof; a mask with bland features (a device deriving from Gillray, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11384) is tied in front of his black horned head; he holds up a lighted candle, and clutches the Pope's hair. Castlereagh, with a blandly disingenuous smile: "I have the authority of the Head of the Catholic Church, for saying that there is no solidity in the objection taken on the other side: thus I am legislating with the Pope at my back!!!" The benches behind Castlereagh are crowded; the members listening intently; all wear hats, except Peel who sits immediately behind Castlereagh's empty seat, on the corner of which he has put a hat, inscribed 'Peel'. He looks up to say: "I hope that when the noble Lord observed that [he was legislating with the Pope at his back] he had no allusion to me, even if the noble Lord were willing to put the Popedom in Commission, I should not be willing to accept the office of one of the Commissioners." Men look down from the gallery. On the floor is a paper: 'St Steevens March 28 1821'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whatever is, is right. Pope! and Weighty argument in favour of the Catholic Emancipation
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1820.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1821 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780-1845, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Legislative bodies, Politicians, Public speaking, Popes, Crosiers, Keys (Hardware), Demons, Masks, and Candles
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 79 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.12.07.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 239 x 295 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of image from top edge.
"A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate plight is apparent in the fixed stare with which she looks up and to the right. By her side (left) is a bottle and glass. A pretty young courtesan, resting her left arm on the back of the chair, leans forward to hold a candle above the leg."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
Description:
Title from text below image., Early state, before imprint added in lower margin. For a later state with imprint "Pubd. 1st June 1785 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Marybone Street, Golden Sqr.", see Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810132., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate reissued by publisher S.W. Fores in 1792; see no. 8197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 311-12., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skin lesions.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
Leaf 35. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with slight alteration to dialogue below image; the letters "omp" in "Romp" have been burnished from plate and replaced with an underscore. For original issue published ca. 1830, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 830.00.00.122+., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Five numbered lines of dialogue below title: 1. So! they say Miss Stiff R- is in the straw!! 2. Why sure, is it a girl? ..., and On leaf 35 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tea, Kettles, Gossiping, Tables, Candles, Fireplaces, Cats, and Accidents
Leaf 44. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four elderly whist-players, broadly burlesqued. A grotesque woman (left), holding a hand of five low cards in all suits, exclaims (words below the title): "O Lor' Sir! I've | "Lost my Honor!"; she tilts her head so that the aigrette in her turban burns in a candle (unnoticed by the players). Her furious partner: "Then Ma'am You shou'dn't | "have played the Odd Trick. A dandy, warming his back at the fire (left), stares at the conflagration, and an amused footman capers off to the right, tilting a salver."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1825 by George Hunt, see no. 15005 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 44 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Older people, Candles, Servants, Dandies, and British
Title from item., Number 278 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of caption below design: Husband, "How do my Dear; you must excuse me my Dear being out so late, you know I don't do it often; I happen'd to meet a brother Buck ...", Plate numbered '278' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 18, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1797 on the right side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the left side.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
"Scene in a bedroom, meanly furnished except for a four-post curtained bed (left) and a carpeted floor; it is lit by a single candle or rush-light. Lady Eldon (right), a lean and ugly virago, assails the ex-Chancellor with a shovel, holding him by the coat. He tries to escape, shrieking, I cou'dn't in conscience my love, act with them--why, they are all in league with the Devil. Lady Eldon: Conscience, indeed! I'll conscience you! Aye, aye, Sir, you don't know your friends from your foes. I'll make you learn to keep a good place when you've got one; you shan't be idling at home earning nothing. What business is it of your's who's who as long as you have got a good place and are well paid for it. Under the bed is a box of Smuggled Goods. On the wall is a picture: Taking leave of the Court of Conscience. In this Eldon leans from a desk holding a handkerchief towards his eyes, facing a group of standing barristers. On the floor is a book: Rule a Husband and have a Husband [parodying the title of Fletcher's comedy, 'Rule a wife ...]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New administration
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31.5 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 and Eldon, Elizabeth, Lady, 1754-1831
Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
"Lady Hertford, seated regally on a small sofa, cuts locks from the head of the Regent who reclines against her knees, asleep. The locks already cut are on the ground inscribed respectively 'Sheridan', 'Norfolk', 'Moira', 'Holland', 'Erskine'. She is about to shear off one inscribed 'Grenville'; the last, 'Grey', is still on his head. The Prince, who is conventionally handsome, and wears uniform, holds a paper signed '[Gren]ville / Grey'; his garter, inscribed 'Honi so . . .', is loose, and his left hand hides the star on his breast. Lord Yarmouth (right) stands holding a guttering candle; he points to the uncut lock, saying, "Don't forget that lock laying [on] the shoulder its Grey dy'ye see!" In his pocket is a pamphlet: 'Art of Milling' [see British Museum Satires No. 11842]. To leave no doubt as to his identity, a basket of fish is beside him inscribed '[Y]armouth Herrings'. Lady Hertford is heavily handsome; a small crown, which might pass as a tiara decorates her head; one foot rests regally on a footstool. A pillar and drapery behind her suggest regal state. On the sofa beside her is a rolled document headed 'Road to Hertford from Pall Mall'. On the ground (left) are empty wine-bottles; on a book by the Prince's feet, 'Economy of Human Life', lies a broken bottle from which wine pours. Behind (left) stands Perceval in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, watching from behind a curtain which he holds aside; Castlereagh stands behind him, saying, "By Jasus, but she's as pretty a Barber as ever I clap't my eyes upon." Perceval answers: "Hush! Hush! you'l wake him before they are all cut."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Delilah depriving Sampson of those locks in which consisted his strength
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed., and Album paper pasted over edge of plate at top.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1812 by Walker and Knight, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823., Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840., Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826., Samson (Biblical judge), and Delilah (Biblical figure)
"Dumouriez, followed by a tall and ragged sansculotte, marches aggressively towards a low barricade (left), behind which are frog-soldiers presenting their bayonets at the invaders. Dumouriez, foppishly dressed in regimentals, but with bare legs, his shirt confined by a sash, holds against his shoulder an enormous seal. He says, holding out his right hand, "Monsr Orange, I will seal up your Papers, & take care of your Cash". From his pocket hangs a scroll: 'New Laws for Holland Prepar'd by the Convention'. His 'aid du Camp' holds against his shoulder a gigantic piece of sealing-wax inscribed 'Fyn Se gelak wel brand en vart. houd', in his right hand is a large lighted candle or taper. He says, "Aha. Monr Grenouille I wou'd rather eat you than fight." He is perhaps Miranda, Dumouriez' second in command."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dumourer and his aid du camp on full march and Dumourer and his aide du camp on full march
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen a complete model of the quillotine admitance [sic] one shilling.
Publisher:
Pub. March 13, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806., Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer, 1739-1823, Miranda, Francisco de, 1750-1816, and France. Convention nationale.
Subject (Topic):
Neerwinden, Battle of, Neerwinden, Belgium, 1793, History, Campaigns, Foreign public opinion, British, Foreign relations, Sansculottes, Candles, Dandies, French, Frogs, Military uniforms, and Seals (Insignia)
Volume 2, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 57. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Three men sit by a rectangular supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes his other booted foot against the boy's back; on the floor are a pair of spurs, a pair of slippers, and a boot-jack. A man (right) wearing a night-cap, but otherwise completely dressed and wearing spurred boots, leans one elbow on the table, his face contorted as if in pain, he holds his hand to his thigh. On the table beside him is a small packet inscribed "Diaculum". In the centre, and on the farther side of the table, the third man leans both elbows on the table, his hair is tousled and his eyes are shut. A man-servant behind, yawning, is carrying off a square box, probably a wig-box, while a maidservant stands on the right, a candle in one hand, a warming-pan in the other, watching with amusement the efforts of the boy to pull off the boot. Three hats hang on the wall; a bottle, a plate, three wine-glasses, and a guttering candle, burnt down to the socket, stand on the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Morning, or, The man of taste., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Maid -- Man-servant -- Male hats, 1780 -- Night-cap -- Medical: Packet of 'diaculum' -- Male costume, 1780 -- Jack-boots -- Boot-jacks -- Boot-boy., Mounted on page 57 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 29.0 cm, on sheet 35.3 x 30.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octbr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Longcase clocks, Boots, Slippers, Boys, Candles, Servants, Women domestics, Hats, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Title engraved below image., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 October 1781 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 5920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Companion print to: Morning, or, The man of taste., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Apl. 5, 1802, by Jno. Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Longcase clocks, Boots, Slippers, Boys, Candles, Servants, Women domestics, Hats, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Volume 2, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 57. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Three men sit by a rectangular supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes his other booted foot against the boy's back; on the floor are a pair of spurs, a pair of slippers, and a boot-jack. A man (right) wearing a night-cap, but otherwise completely dressed and wearing spurred boots, leans one elbow on the table, his face contorted as if in pain, he holds his hand to his thigh. On the table beside him is a small packet inscribed "Diaculum". In the centre, and on the farther side of the table, the third man leans both elbows on the table, his hair is tousled and his eyes are shut. A man-servant behind, yawning, is carrying off a square box, probably a wig-box, while a maidservant stands on the right, a candle in one hand, a warming-pan in the other, watching with amusement the efforts of the boy to pull off the boot. Three hats hang on the wall; a bottle, a plate, three wine-glasses, and a guttering candle, burnt down to the socket, stand on the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Morning, or, The man of taste., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Maid -- Man-servant -- Male hats, 1780 -- Night-cap -- Medical: Packet of 'diaculum' -- Male costume, 1780 -- Jack-boots -- Boot-jacks -- Boot-boy., and Mounted on page 7 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octbr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Longcase clocks, Boots, Slippers, Boys, Candles, Servants, Women domestics, Hats, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Title engraved below image., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 October 1781 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 5920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Companion print to: Morning, or, The man of taste., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; circular image 28.7 cm, on sheet 34.9 x 29.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Apl. 5, 1802, by Jno. Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Longcase clocks, Boots, Slippers, Boys, Candles, Servants, Women domestics, Hats, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Three men sit by a supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes his other booted foot against the boy's back; on the floor are a pair of spurs, a pair of slippers, and a boot-jack. A man (right) wearing a night-cap, but otherwise completely dressed and wearing spurred boots, leans one elbow on the table, his face contorted as if in pain, he holds his hand to his thigh. On the table beside him is a small packet inscribed "Diaculum". In the centre, and on the farther side of the table, the third man leans both elbows on the table, his hair is tousled and his eyes are shut. A servant behind, yawning, is carrying off a square box, probably a wig-box, while a maidservant stands on the right, a candle in one hand, a warming-pan in the other, watching with amusement the efforts of the boy to pull off the boot. Three hats hang on the wall; a bottle, a plate, three wine-glasses, and a guttering candle, burnt down to the socket, stand on the table. See related image in the British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on watermark., A copy of no. 5920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: W. Pickering & Co. 1816., and With a biographical note in pencil, from John Heiton's Castes of Edinburgh, about Henry MacKenzie of Scotland, author of Man of feeling.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831.
Subject (Topic):
Boots, Boys, Candles, Dining tables, Drinking vessels, Hats, Longcase clocks, Medicine, Slippers, Servants, Women domestics, and Yawning
A fireplace, surrounded on the sides by bookcases filled with books, and more books on the mantelpiece above the fireplace. The plate also contains the name "E. Spelman" in the lower left-hand corner, and the date "June 1921" in the lower right-hand corner.
Subject (Name):
Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960 and Yale School of Medicine
Looking through a window, there is a sitting woman, holding a branch, with her hand on a book. On the table beneath her is a heart in a glass case, a candle, an hourglass and an open book. Beneath the image is the phrase Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.
Subject (Name):
Shaftel, Norman
Subject (Topic):
Bookplate collectors, Books, Candles, Heart, Medical historians, Physicians, Time, and Woman
A lit candle within a candle holder. Above, a right hand holds a snuffer in preparation to put out the flame. Flanking the flame is the phrase Good Night All's Well, while above the image is a banner with the phrase Paciencia Y Barajar; below a second banner, with another phrase Sursum Corda.
A square frame embroidered with leaves with a lit candle on top. A poem within the frame quotes "Reade me with the Eyes o' the Minde/The Goode is in mee see thou Flinde/And sith Bookes be but worke of Manne/The Evill in mee looke thou banne". -G. H. H. : 1877.
A shelf of books with a candle. Above the shelf, in quotes is written "Alere Flammam". Beneath the shelf is a line marked "No.", and at the bottom of the bookplate is a line marked "Baltimore", and "/18".
A scene of a large room, perhaps a study, in which a large desk and chair is at the center. There is a fireplace with a large dog lying couchant in front. Several decorations and ornaments surround the room. The image itself is framed by a border of thistle flowers and leaves. In the lower right-hand corner, next to the title text, is a small shield, divided in half and counter charged—with a chevron on each side; the left surrounded by three stars; two above, one below and three garbes of wheat of the right side; two above, one below. At the helm stands a man in metal armor.
"A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A border, the top consisting of small, nude, human-like creatures performing an autopsy on a larger human. Beneath the title text are various potted plants, laboratory artifacts, and a caduceus. approximately 1775, Newburyport, Mass.
Subject (Name):
Swett, John, 1830-1913
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Caduceus, Candles, Chemical apparatus, Children, Medical historians, and Nature
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '169' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lighting -- Female dress: miniatures as jewelry -- Practical jokes.
Publisher:
Published 8th March 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Interiors, Theater audiences, Theaters, Wigs, Candles, and Military uniforms
This bookplate consists of a large mantelpiece over a fireplace with several books and objects featured throughout, including urns, candlesticks, matches, and a pipe. At the top is carved Christ's Coll[ege] Cambridge and St. George's Hospital. Just above the fireplace is the year 1899.
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a pair of travellers who struggle with slippers during their stay at an inn. One man is helped as he removes his boots with the aid of a boot jack. Another traveller falls backwards from the stairs as his well-used and oversized slippers fall from his feet. A maid carrying a candle and with a bed pan, waits for the men. A well furnished room marked 'Travellers Room' in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of descriptive text below title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published in 1807, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810672., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Slippers, Boots, Stairways, Falling, Accidents, Women domestics, Candles, and Bedpans
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered "10".
"Sheridan, fat and grotesque, dressed as Pizarro, strides to the front of the royal box, followed by the King and Queen in Court dress. He holds out a guttering candle in each hand and shouts towards the stage: "Stand by there, move that Stone out of the Way hollo Music there play God Save the King d'ye hear take care Sire mind that Step, louder there Music make room for the best of Kings & wisest of Sovereigns! Encore." The King says to the bejewelled Queen: "No! no! no Jacobins here all Loyal all Loyal, Charming Man the Author eh! charming Man, never saw him in such a good light before." Three princesses follow; one says: "bless me I never saw that General at Court". Behind are two princes in uniform with gorgets, evidently the Dukes of York and Cumberland. On the floor by Sheridan are two papers: 'Maidstone Loyalty' [see British Museum Satires No. 9245, &c], and '[Tomorr]ow Evening performed a new play called the Loyal Author to which will be added a Peep behind the Curtain Vivan[t] Rex et Regina'. The curtain is down; on the proscenium, replacing the usual 'Veluti in Speculum', is 'Anti Jacobin House'. Two men stand in the pit, waving their hats towards the royal box; one is Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pizarro a new play, or, The Drury-Lane masquerade and Drury-Lane masquerade
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "N" in "New" is etched backwards., Tentative attribution to Ansell from the British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Charles Williams in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Theatrical costume: Spanish don -- Gorgets -- Songs: God Save the King -- Anti-Jacobin House -- Queen Charlotte's jewels -- Female dress: Queen Charlotte's dress., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 11th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Jacobins, Theaters, Interiors, Costumes, Stages (Platforms), Candles, Jewelry, and Military uniforms
In an oval, a doctor in a wig sits behind a table so only the upper half of his body is shown. His hands are buried deep in a large muff, his one elbow leaning on the table. On either side of his body are one and two candlesticks with lit candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to G. A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764)., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theatre., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 38.0 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Candles, Candlesticks, Muffs, and Quacks
In an oval, a doctor in a wig sits behind a table so only the upper half of his body is shown. His hands are buried deep in a large muff, his one elbow leaning on the table. On either side of his body are one and two candlesticks with lit candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to G. A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764)., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theatre., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Candles, Candlesticks, Muffs, and Quacks
"In a large room lit by candles in sconces, a round game is in progress. The guests are ladies, undergraduates, and elderly parsons, some sit in a circle, while others look over their heads. An elderly parson grovels on his hands and knees, putting his head under the petticoats of a lady who sits (left) with her hands raised in surprise. He acts at the direction of a boy (Prince William of Gloucester) wearing the gown of (?) a fellow commoner over a coat with a star, who stands (right) in profile to the left, stretching his right arm with an autocratic gesture; a spaniel licks his feet. A stout parson seated behind him on the extreme left scowls and clenches his fist at the scene. The lady (the Duchess of Gloucester) sits between a fashionably dressed undergraduate wearing the gown of (?) a fellow commoner, and a stout parson who holds up his hands in astonishment. The undergraduates and some of the parsons appear amused, others frown disapprovingly. On the extreme left is a small round table on which are two candles and playing-cards."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Questions and commands, Mistaken road to He-r-f-rd, and Mistaken road to Hereford
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title in lower right: Vide, J-s-s Colle. Cambe., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the see of Hereford -- Horace Walpole owned print (NYPL) -- Jesus College, Cambridge -- Petticoat influence -- Spaniel -- Games: Round -- Tripod tables -- Male costumes: Cantabridgian -- Fellow commoner -- Possible caricature of John Butler, 1717-1802.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, Gloucester, Maria Walpole, Duchess of, 1735-1807, Beadon, Richard, 1737-1824, and Butler, John, 1717-1802
Subject (Topic):
Candles, Candlesticks, Clergy, Dogs, Gambling, Playing cards, Rugs, and Sconces
"Young woman dressed in her ballgown half-reclines on a settee in her bedroom while her elderly maid yawns with tiredness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A figure of Paul Pry., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1995,0930.40., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked paper: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ball dresses, Bedrooms, Couches, Yawning, Candles, Dogs, and Women domestics
Volume 4, after page 582. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan, a candle in each hand, shambles before the royal party, ushering them through the theatre and looking over his shoulder with an expression of exasperated anxiety. The King, in back view, turns to the Queen, saying, "I like the Author very much - took him for a Jacobin - no such thing - quite a different man - brim full of loyalty - I'll certainly come again!!" Behind the pair Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain, walks stiffly, holding his staff and wearing his gold key. He is followed by one of the Princesses (Augusta Sophia), walking with the Prince of Orange, whose portly contour and sulky profile with closed eye appear on the extreme left. Through the door (probably that from the box lobby) Fox is seen holding a constable's staff and saying to the crowd, anxious to see the arrival: "Stand away there, don't stop up the passage you pack of Jacobin Rascals"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted after page 582 (leaf numbered '12' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, N. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anxiety, Candles, Sconces, Interiors, and Theaters
"Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Isaac Cruikshank based on faint "I.C" signature in lower right corner of image., Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1969,0719.2. For a different English copy of the same design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2007,7058.4., "Dor. Bssi."--Lower left margin., "CAP: &"--Lower right margin., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters -- Water closets -- Dr. Bossey., and Contemporary annotation in ink below title: 'Tis only experiences that teaches proper remedies.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
"Two men sit beside a blazing fire in a well-furnished room, overcome by drink, and fast asleep. One, a stout officer in regimentals, wearing a cocked hat, seated in an arm-chair (right), has thrust his wooden leg into the fire, where it is burning. The ashes of his pipe fall on to the tail of a dog asleep under his chair. His companion sits (left) supporting his head on his elbow, which rests on a round table on which are a punchbowl, glasses, and a candle, in which his wig is burning. On the wall (left) is a framed plan of fortifications."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon companions
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified by the repository based on the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of 'Drolls.', and Watermark (partial): fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 15th, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Two men both with lit candles on their hats and candles in their hands look anxiously around as the walk through a cave, presumably Peak Cavern (also know as the Devil's Arse).
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom, and right side., Numbered "Plate 92" in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russe 1797.
Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1828, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 772.12.07.04., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A reduced copy of no. 5084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Chairs, Candles, Books, Sleeping, Dogs, and Cats
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: "Ladies & Gentlemen-- I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic's". A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: "I humbly ax pardon Sir --but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles". The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant's son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with 'Hop Mer...' on its collar, watches the lecturer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "on" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret., Probably a later state, with numbering added to plate. For a likely earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 11470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "103" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Optics, Public speaking, Telescopes, Projectors, Candles, and Staffs (Sticks)
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: "Ladies & Gentlemen-- I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic's". A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: "I humbly ax pardon Sir --but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles". The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant's son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with 'Hop Mer...' on its collar, watches the lecturer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "on" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret., Probably a later state, with numbering added to plate. For a likely earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 11470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "103" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark x cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Optics, Public speaking, Telescopes, Projectors, Candles, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.0 x 26.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: What raptures steal thro' ev'ry nerve and vein, when the mouth yawns and when the muscles strain ..., Companion print to: The studious yawner., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Candlelight pictures -- Lighting: candle with a screen -- Yawning -- Sewing., and Watermark: Grapes.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A satire on William Pitt on his accepting office in government showing him reacting in horror to the sight of the ghost of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough who appears in her shroud saying “Furies Wheres my 10000 £”, in one hand she holds a paper lettered “Taken a Place” and another lettered “Voted for ye C(our)t”. Her other hand points down to a portrait of Lord Chesterfield on the floor which has been torn from its frame on the wall and in this hand she holds a paper lettered “and you too 20000£”. Behind her is a statue of Queen Anne. Flashes of lightening come through the window at the back of the room aimed at Pitt as he sits at a table with two candles on it writing “an answer to T.H.” also on the table are “Letters to W(ilia)m. P(itt) Tr(easurer) of I(relan)d” and “Letter to W(ilia)m P(itt) by T. H-y Esq. On his forehead is written “HANOVER T(urnip)S”."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The ghost of a Duchess to William Pitt Esqr
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Thirteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Ungrateful P---. You have me bitt! ..., Temporary local subject terms: Statues: statue of Queen Anne on pedestal -- Ghosts: the Duchess of Marlborough -- Lightning bolts -- Female dress: Queen Anne's dress -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furniture -- Furniture -- Furnishings: wall clock and bracket -- Letters -- Legacy., Watermark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. for L. Raymond
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714, Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
"Lord Lonsdale with the head of a wolf sits in his carriage, from which the horses have been taken, and is drawn (left to right) by men past a row of two-storied cottages which are falling to pieces. He wears an earl's coronet, and a military coat with a shirt frill; from his rapacious mouth issue the words 'Dear Gentlemen this is too much, now you really distress me'. A large earl's coronet is on the carriage door. A hind wheel rolls over an open book, 'Peter Pindar'. A stout fierce-looking man wearing a legal wig sits on the box, raising a whip whose lashes are three scrolls inscribed (in legal blackletter), 'Littledale versus Lonsdale', 'Indemnifications', and 'Sham Trials'. He holds a bunch of reins attached to the necks of the men dragging the carriage, on whose faces are fixed, propitiatory grins. From his pockets issue a volume inscribed 'Blackstone', and a paper: 'Bills unpaid'; he is Lonsdale's 'clerk and attorney', see BMSat 8156. Two of the men whom he drives say: "No Ropes equal to mine, at a dead pull and A glorious night for my Brewery". Another man is in rags. In front of the procession and on the extreme right walk two couples holding hands. These carry three banners, inscribed: 'The good Samaritan', 'The Lion The Lamb', and: 'The Blues are bound in Adamantine Chains But Freedom round each Yellow Mansion reigns.' One of the men says slyly to the woman he walks with: 'And makes the Farmers Wives & Daughters Game' This is a quotation from Peter Pindar's 'Commiserating Epistle to Lord Lonsdale', see BMSat 8003. The context is: 'Yet why should Hares, and Partridges, and Grouse, Alone be ravish'd from the Farmer's house ? - Go, Lonsdale, get an Act to raise thy fame, And make . . .' Behind the carriage (left) is a cheering crowd; they wave their hats frantically shouting, "Liberty, Huzza, Huzza." The man in the foreground is a sailor with a bludgeon. Over the door of one of the ruined cottages is a placard: 'To lett convenient lodgings.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Matted to 56 x 71 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"The King and Ministers, as domestic servants in déshabille, surround a rush-light, trying, with fierce intentness, to blow it out. The flame of the light encloses the head of Queen Caroline wearing her feathered hat; the rush is supported on a saveall formed of the head of Wood [Brougham, according to Reid, who is incorrect in some of the other identifications], and placed in a kitchen candlestick standing on a rectangular table. The centre figure is Eldon, his Chancellor's wig formed of a pair of breeches. He leans sideways and the King, wearing a night-cap, looks over his shoulder, blowing downwards. Next them is Wellington, whose blast is better directed than that of the others, but all miss the flame by blowing too low. On the left are two old women, Sidmouth, using his (green) clyster-pipe as a squirt, and Liverpool, whose night-cap is a green bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735). Facing these are the Duke of York, next Eldon, and the Duke of Clarence on the extreme left, as a hideous black man, whose strong but ill-directed blast is inscribed 'Slander' [see British Museum Satires No. 14031, &c.]. Three other heads are in shadow, like the King; they watch with anxiety, but are not blowing; they are Castlereagh (left) and two women (right). Below the design: "Cook, Coachee, men & maids, very near all in buff, Came & swore in their lives they never met with such a light; And each of the family by turns had a puff, At the little farthing rush light, The curst farthing rush light, But none of the family Could blow out the rush light.!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 32 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Servants, Candles, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Two columns of verse below image: Behold the candle! woeful sight! a sheet is winding from the light!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A scene depicting a club meeting with most members sitting around a long candlelit table. One member, dressed in robes and apron, is standing on his chair, arms outstretched and raised while speaking to the members, "Aimons sauvons loir et matin."
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink on mount., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Fraternal organizations, Meetings, Public speaking, and Candles
A scene depicting the meeting of a fraternal organization with members standing along the two sides of a long table. A stout man dressed in robes with gloves tucked into an apron tied at his waist stands atop the table and addresses the group; a speech bubble emanating from his mouth, "Brothers I should by ashamed &c."
Description:
Title from inscription in black ink on mount., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Fraternal organizations, Meetings, Public speaking, and Candles
Title devised by curator., From: Das Leben und die Meinungen des Tristram Shandy: Karl Ernst Bohn, Berlin, 1776., Top inscription: VIII. ; VI. Th. pag.11., Sheet trimmed through top inscription., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Interior scene, with a family gathered on the left and looking over at a seated man on the opposite side of the room. The father, sitting in a chair, lights his pipe using the candle on the small table next to him; a pitcher and two mugs are also seen on the table. Behind the father stands his wife, and on the floor beside him sits a young girl. The other man, sitting across the table from the father, is wearing a coat and hat; his left hand is extended, perhaps reaching for his mug
Description:
Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed within image with the artist's initials., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Conversation, Candles, Pipes (Smoking), Tables, Pitchers, and Drinking vessels
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In lower margin: Book 2, pag. 54; Luc. 2; No. 13., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Circumcision, Saints, Mothers, Infants, Priests, Knives, and Candles
"Death (left) poises his javelin, about to strike an old man in bed, reading a book by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The room is heaped with his treasures (armour, &c.). Rats scamper, chased by a cat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue; the assigned title for each plate from The English dance of death is the heading to the opposite printed page., Early (proof?) state, before aquatint added. For a later state, see no. 12412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from imprint on later state: London, Pub. 1 April 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of text below image., Later state issued in: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 320., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Ink verse notation on verso, perhaps in Rowlandson's hand; additional pencil notation on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Wills, Skeletons, Spears, Beds, Sleeping, Cats, Rats, Armor, Musical instruments, Books, Candles, Artists' materials, Urns, and Sculpture
"Satire on connoisseurs: a man holds up a candle to examine a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy; the candle flame is shielded by the man's hand."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Connoisseur
Description:
Title from later state described in the British Museum catalogue., Early state. No title is present; the names of the artist, publisher, and printmaker are engraved directly beneath image; and the publication line with date is at the bottom of the plate. For a later state with title added and artist and printmaker names removed, published in 1776 by Sayer & Bennett, see No. 4621 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlestick -- Yawns -- Painting: frame -- Candle lighting picture., and Matted to 72 x 56 cm.