Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
"An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog (King Charles spaniel) which a [black] liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both are three-quarter length. Beneath the design: 'This Passion is represented by an Old Maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite Lap-dog.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered 'No. 12' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., and Two lines of text below image: This passion is represented by an old maid who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favorite lap-dog.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Death, Dogs, Older people, Servants, and Single women
"Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print by Charles Townley after a design by Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Satan, sin and death
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Messrs Moulton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
published according to act of Parliament April 15th, 1767.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print by Charles Townley after a design by Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Price five shillings."--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 1 of volume 3., and With ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print lower right: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 404. This identical print was sold for twenty pounds. In pencil to left of engraved text on print: No more than five impressions were taken from this plate.
"Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print by Charles Townley after a design by Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: From Milton's Paradise lost, Book the 2d. The original picture by Hogarth is in the possession of Mrs. Garrick. This from a painting in Chiaro-Scuro by R. Livesay., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 203 in volume 3., and Inscribed in plate under title: From Milton's Paradise Lost, Bok the 2d. The original picture by Hogarth is in the possession of Mrs. Garrick. This from a painting in chiaro scuro by R. Livesay. Note: plate mark visible at bottom.
A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground".
Alternative Title:
Cure for the heart ache
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Death, Coffins, Courtship, Sexual attraction, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, and Costume
A coat of arms divided into two via an engrailed line with five ermine spots upon it. Above the divide are the heads of two bulls; below is one head. At the crest is a fourth bull from within a crown, and with sprigs of clover beneath. Further beneath the shield is the motto Tenez le Vraye.
Subject (Name):
Emmet, T. A.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Crown, Death, Physicians, and Shield
Age of man, display'd in ten different stages of life
Description:
Caption title on three lines., Verse - "In prime of years, when I was young,"., In three columns separated by columns of type ornaments; the title and three woodcuts span the first two columns; the sequence of woodcuts is: Father Time; a woman riding a donkey, with a baby in a cradle and a lamb in the foreground; Death., Six long dashes above imprint at foot of column three., Mounted on leaf 1. 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:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Songs, English, Life cycle, Death, and Youth
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 October 1772., and Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 9, p. 128.
