"A grand bedroom with the countess holding a morning levée attended by her hairdresser while the lawyer, Silvertongue, arranges to meet her at a masquerade; others in the room include a female friend and effeminate men who pay rapt attention to a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist, a young black man who serves chocolate to the party, and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon purchased at an auction with other objects, including a fake mermaid; playing cards and invitations lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toilette
Description:
Title etched below image., After Hogarth's painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London., In lower left corner: Size of picture 3 ft. by 2 ft. 4 in., No. 4 in a series of 6 images, known as "The toilette.", Series title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2375., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 161., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 231.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, N. 90, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St. & 109 Broadway, N.Y.
Leaf 74. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Stocky woman holding up fist to skinny man, with boy pulling at this coattail and woman behind him holding a broom over his head."--Library of Congress online catalog
Alternative Title:
Grey mare the better horse
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Library of Congress call no.: PC 2 - Matrimony in perfection (A size) [P&P]., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1770?, and On leaf 74 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Threats, Children, Brooms & brushes, Horns (Anatomy), and Adultery
Title etched below image., Lower left corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. II, Chap. XXV., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias), and Fleet Prison (London, England)
A cherubic Mercury (left) and Jupiter (right) sit on a rock in a mountainous and tree-dotted landscape. Mercury holds his caduceus in his left arm and rests his foot on a small shield (?) while Jupiter seated on the ground to the right, holds his arm around the neck of a swan. On a shelf above Mercury's head a rooster looks down on the scene
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 265.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Mercury (Roman deity) and Jupiter (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Children, Caduceus, Roosters, Swans, Nudes, and Myths
Title from item., In margin lower right: 10,000., Date derived from founding of Associated Printers (Madras) Ltd., Text is also in Hindi., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Issued by the Health Education Section, Directorate General of Health Services, Government of India. Published by the Advertising Branch, Ministry of I. & B. and printed by Associated Printers (Madras) Ltd., Madras
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Nutrition, Teeth, Care and hygiene, Milk in human nutrition, Cows, and Children
