"Design in a circle. A man and wife seated at a circular breakfast-table. The man, who is obese and a gourmand, sits in profile to the right. holding a bowl with a spoon in it in one hand, a bill of fare in the other inscribed "Soup . . . Turbot. Duck . . Lamb". He is wearing spectacles and a large piece of food projects from his mouth. The cook (right) is showing his master a dead duck, which he holds up in his right hand; in his left, and partly supported by his knee, is a tray on which are two lobsters and a turbot. The lady, who is also fat, holds up her hands in horror at the cook, who, from his leanness, his profile, and his bag-wig, solitaire, and ruffled shirt, is evidently a Frenchman. He wears a white cap and an apron, a large knife is thrust under his belt. On the left a footman enters carrying in each hand a plate piled with muffins. Tea-things are on the table. Under the table a small dog, befouling the floor, is partly visible. Behind is a screen of several leaves, on the top of which is a bird, resembling a large dove."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of taste
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Breakfast menu -- Breakfast selections displayed -- Tea service -- Male costume: Morning, 1780 -- Female costume: Morning, 1780 -- Domestic service -- Black footman., and Mounted on page 55 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date from advertisement in Theatrical magazine, 8 January 1773, p. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Underground -- Horton's soup room -- Soup room keepers: allusion to Mr. Horton -- Food: soup with dumplings -- Architectural details: ornamental vaults -- Swags -- Mirrors -- Soup rooms., and Mounted to15 x 22 cm.
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Second of two plates on leaf 40., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Mounted to 28 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left
Alternative Title:
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., 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):
Conversation, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Dwellings
Roberts, Henry, approximately 1710-approximately 1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1783 and 1790]
Call Number:
763.00.00.128
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The full length figure of Mr. Yates in the character of Launce from Two gentlemen of Verona stands center with his right hand holding the leash of his dog Crab while he points down to the dog with his left. Launce's shoes and hat lie on the ground in front and to the left while a tall staff stands in the ground to the right. Bushes and trees form the backdrop. Engraved below the image are 11 lines from Act II, Scene III beginning: Nay 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping ...
Alternative Title:
Mr. Yates in the character of Launce in the Two Gentlemen of Verona with his dog Crab
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from William Richardson's business address. See The London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 187, Later state of a print originally published by Roberts in 1763. See British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by W. Richardson, Antient & Modern Print Warehouse, 174 Strand
Subject (Name):
Yates, Richard, 1706?-1796, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Characters, Launce, Actors, British, and Dogs
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 44 x 29 cm., and Watermark: E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
"An etching comprising several allegorical and grotesque figures assembled on clouds or on smoke, before the gaping jaws of a monster, which, in the manner of medieval representations of the Mouth of Hell, emits flames. In front of this is a wolf in sheep's clothing, i.e., a fleece shaped like a clergyman's canonicals, and bearing on its head a church. The next figure is that of horned owl with spectacles, a satyr's leg and hoof, and a wooden leg; in one hand, or harpy's claw, this creature holds a balance, in which "honesty", inscribed on a deed(?) is outweighed by a bag of money, on which is marked '£100800'; in the other claw is a scroll, inscribed, "Mongri(or "a") Farca." A fox follows, offering a bag marked, "10,000". The head of a bishop in a mitre appears behind. In the middle of the design the Princess of Wales, as a sphinx-like she-goat, looks at the above-named figures, and is ridden by the Earl of Bute, as a he-goat, with a jack-boat, alluding to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, on one of his legs. A cerberus-like monster, or three centaurs, with zanies' trappings, and holding marrow-bones and cleavers which are beaten together, is followed by an old man who sounds a drum. Another old man advances eagerly from our right; his profile resembles that of the Duke of Newcastle, but probably was not intended to do so; he wears armour, and an enormous wig; he has a flame-like sword in one hand, and extends the other hand, which is like a claw; he has likewise a satyr's leg."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., A copy of print no. 169 of the illustrations to: Political and satirical history., Numbered '4' in upper right corner., Illustration to: The British antidote to Caledonian poison., "Price six pence."--Following imprint which is mostly burnished from the plate in this state., and With annotations in Bowditch's hand, identifying the figures depicted; mounted on a sheet 33.2 x 45.5 cm.
Publisher:
[...] in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Dogs, Caricatures, Clergy, Hell, Monsters, and Supernatural beings
"An etching comprising several allegorical and grotesque figures assembled on clouds or on smoke, before the gaping jaws of a monster, which, in the manner of medieval representations of the Mouth of Hell, emits flames. In front of this is a wolf in sheep's clothing, i.e., a fleece shaped like a clergyman's canonicals, and bearing on its head a church. The next figure is that of horned owl with spectacles, a satyr's leg and hoof, and a wooden leg; in one hand, or harpy's claw, this creature holds a balance, in which "honesty", inscribed on a deed(?) is outweighed by a bag of money, on which is marked '£100800'; in the other claw is a scroll, inscribed, "Mongri(or "a") Farca." A fox follows, offering a bag marked, "10,000". The head of a bishop in a mitre appears behind. In the middle of the design the Princess of Wales, as a sphinx-like she-goat, looks at the above-named figures, and is ridden by the Earl of Bute, as a he-goat, with a jack-boat, alluding to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, on one of his legs. A cerberus-like monster, or three centaurs, with zanies' trappings, and holding marrow-bones and cleavers which are beaten together, is followed by an old man who sounds a drum. Another old man advances eagerly from our right; his profile resembles that of the Duke of Newcastle, but probably was not intended to do so; he wears armour, and an enormous wig; he has a flame-like sword in one hand, and extends the other hand, which is like a claw; he has likewise a satyr's leg."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., A copy of print no. 169 of the illustrations to: Political and satirical history., Later used as an illustration to: The British antidote to Caledonian poison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text?, Copy of no. 4078 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and On page 264 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to:
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Dogs, Caricatures, Clergy, Hell, Monsters, and Supernatural beings
"A jovial citizen leaning on his tall cane in profile to the right addresses another, who walks off to the right, turning his head to scowl at his interlocutor. The former says: "How do you do my Old Friend - pretty warm by this time I suppose, - a long time in business. - how much might you clear now in the course of last Year?" The other answers: "Whats that to you - skant tell - keep no books, what you want to come the Inquisition rig I suppose, an be d------d to you!" He is obese and is stuffing a 'Banke[rs] Book 17[98]' into his coat-pocket. His dog 'Surly' looks round with contempt at the first speaker, and befouls his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on the income tax., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: T. Edmonds 1817.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Income tax, Law and legislation, Conversation, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
