Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 17 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 29.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 34.3 x 37.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Bunbury 780.03.01.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
"A young woman, elaborately dressed, sits with downcast eyes in profile to the left at a table on which are a book and rosary. On her right sits, on a striped settee, a 'priest' wearing a skull-cap; a hat and cloak on a chair and stool show that he is a visitor. He holds a book, looking towards the 'nun' with a smile. The room is fashionably furnished with two sash-windows, in one of which stands a large vase of flowers. Between them is an oval picture of (?) the Temptation of St. Anthony. Beneath the title: 'At Twelve, I began to think of a Man, At Thirteen, I Sighed for a Man, At Fourteen I was Violently in Love with a Man, At Fifteen I run away with a Man. But he was a Very Pretty Man - therefore I hope youll Pardon me Sir.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Five lines of text below image (first 4 in two columns): At twelve, I began to think of a man ..., Numbered '126' in lower right of plate., Temporary local subject terms: Rosaries -- Furniture -- Pictures amplifying subjects: Temptation of St. Anthony -- Furnishings: window curtains., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Published 1st Octr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Priests, Prostitutes, Confessions, Religious articles, Sofas, Chairs, and Draperies
Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent for evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
"Heading to a printed broadside, a parody of Hamlet's soliloquy spoken by George IV, beginning 'To be or not to be? and ending 'I'd rather drink and revel here in secret, | Than fly | Where I might meet her face to face'. The King, much burlesqued, stands with legs astride on the boards of a theatre, framed by curtains patterned with grapes, bottles, glasses, crowns, and antlers. On the back-cloth are crude Chinese figures. He has a huge head, with heavy drink-blotched face crowned by the towering curls of his wig, and holds a full goblet and a bottle of Curaco. With an expression of calculating melancholy he meditates suicide, on account of 'The scorns and satire of an injur'd Nation', but fears to meet his wife's ghost."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Thirty-two lines of letterpress text beneath title, beginning: To be or not to be? That is the question ..., Price statement and publisher's advertisement following imprint: --Price 1s. coloured.--Where may be had "Hush-a-bye baby upon the tree top.", Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 36 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in black ink below image; letters written in red ink within the blanks in the letterpress text, completing the censored words "York's," "Queen," "royal," and George." Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Printed and published by I.L. Marks, 37, Prince's Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Draperies, Bottles, Alcoholic beverages, and Drinking vessels
"Wellington sits behind a small cloth-covered table flanked by eight other representations of himself, as depicted in recent caricatures, apparently all by W. Heath. The arrangement is evidently that of Charles Mathews' 'At Homes', see British Museum Satires No. 14714, &c., Wellington, like Mathews, being in propria persona at the table. In this guise he wears the robes (indistinguishable from Coronation robes) and collar of the Garter and the order of the Golden Fleece and a (crown-like) ducal coronet; his head is turned in profile to the right. Immediately below him, the head and hands of another Wellington, who is crouching on the floor, project from the tablecloth; he grasps a royal crown, and wears a cap coloured blue and resembling a tam-o'-shanter, but perhaps intended for a coronet. The other Wellingtons, all standing (left to right): [1] A mute as in British Museum Satires No. 15501, in profile to the right. [2] A Grenadier, full-face and rigidly at attention, much as in British Museum Satires No. 15768, but without the musket. [3] A ratcatcher stooping to the left and touching his hat, the cage in his left hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15806). [4] Aged and cloaked, wearing spectacles, with bowed head, he clasps a cross in both hands. [5] The old woman in a soldier's coat of British Museum Satires No. 15721, facing, and apparently in angry altercation with, the seated Wellington. [6] The coachman of British Museum Satires No. 15731, in profile to the left, holding shaft and lash of his whip as if they were the reins of a four-in-hand which he is driving. [7] Wellington in uniform, directed to the left, wearing his plumed cocked hat and holding up with a furtive expression a sword with a damaged blade in a dilapidated scabbard. [8] A mummy-case with an aperture to show Wellington's head with the forefingers compressing his mouth; below the aperture is the word 'Mum'. (Apparently from a satire on Wellington's silence as to his intentions on Catholic Relief until the eve of the opening of Parliament, see British Museum Satires No. 15659.) There is a background of curtains. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 15787."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All the world's a stage &c. S-
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publisher's annnouncement following imprint: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures, none are original without T. McLeans name as publisher., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pub. June 15, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Robes, Crowns, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Coach drivers, Sarcophagi, and Draperies
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The hypochondriac., One line of quoted text below image, etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, "extremes by change more fierce. Milton., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Ague -- Demons & devils -- Prescription of drugs., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.2 x 56.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The Queen, not caricatured, sits regally in an armchair beside an ornate marble and gilt table, on which are dishes of fruit. Next her is a dish of pears. She holds a (bitten) pear near her mouth; in her left hand is a rolled document inscribed 'Defence' from which hang two pears on a forked twig. She says meditatively: "I do love these Pears! but I hate the English Pairs* [peers]." Above her is looped a heavy fringed curtain. The 'trial', see British Museum Satires No. 13825, is assumed to be proceeding badly for the Queen. Cf. in British Museum Satires No. 13900 the contrary assumption. For the Queen and Bergami see (e.g.) British Museum Satires No. 13731. Fruit-sellers in London cried 'Bergami pears and Caroline Apples'. 'Letters of Countess Granville', 1894, i. 172."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Choice fruit!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with alternative title etched on plate. For an earlier state with this alternative title in manuscript only, see no. 13869 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Approximate date of publication from watermark., Publication date of 1 October 1820 is noted in the British Museum catalogue entry for an earlier state., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Weatherley & Lane 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 88 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Q. Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "1821" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of one line from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly No. 41
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
Subject (Topic):
Queens, Adultery, Fruit, Pears, Tables, Documents, and Draperies
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book., On leaf 17., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
