Volume 1, page 35. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three soldiers stand at attention outside a tent (right) holding bayoneted muskets. Two wear high plumed busbies, the third a laced three-cornered hat. The officer facing them (left), holding a musket without a bayonet against his shoulder, gives the word of command. A stout man and a fat woman stand behind him. In the foreground (right) a drummer boy, sitting on the ground, one arm resting on his drum, puts a plumed busby on the head of a dog. Two rough-looking men wearing ribbon favours in their hats, probably intended for Gordon Rioters, point jeeringly at the three soldiers. In the background are trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "No. 13"--Upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Visit to militia camp -- Militia: relief -- Knapsack -- Drummer boy., and Mounted on page 35 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1781, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military uniforms, Military officers, Rifles, Bayonets, Tents, Drums (Musical instruments), and Dogs
Title from text below image., Place of publication conjectured., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below image: A child more easily conceived than described. Old story.
"Mrs. Clarke stands before a large doorway inscribed Clark and Company. She wears a white short-sleeved dress with plumed cocked hat, gorget, and military sash, sword-belt and scabbard. The sword she holds over her head, saying, Now Gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of. as the partnership is disolving. She holds out a paper: List of Prices at Clark and Co's Warehouse--Majority--£900. Company --7oo. Lieutenancy 400. Through the doorway behind her are seen great stacks of papers in her 'warehouse'. These are labelled: Captains Commissions 500 each, Half-pay Commissions 200 each, Lieutenant, Colonel, Major, Cornet. On the wall is a notice: NB a sum wanted by way o Loan, terms to be seen within. On the right stands a man playing a fiddle, and saying with a sly smile, If you want de commission, you must give me de Note den I go play de Fiddle to de white petticoat. From his coat-pockets hang papers: Pay Sigr Cor[ri] for [word illegible] 200; and a piece of music: The Petticoat [see British Museum Satires No. 11220]. Beside him lies a large Note Book. Above his head hangs upside down a portrait: The Dukes Head; the upper part only of the Duke of York's profile is visible, defaced by a black mark, the rest of the picture being cut off by the upper margin of the design. On the left two military bandsmen play a drum and fife. One asks: What tune shall we play now Jack the Duke of Yorks Marck [sic]? Answer: No No lets play she's off with another."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Commission warehouse
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect; the word "York" at beginning of title has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. February 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Musicians, Violins, Drums (Musical instruments), Military bands, Military uniforms, British, Price lists, Warehouses, and Portraits
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Publication date based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. See no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Copy in reverse of a print published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1864 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: See valiant Captain Snout appears, the drum beats up for volunteers, you that are weary of your wives, and willing to live merry lives ..., Plate numbered '3' in lower left corner. Possibly a reissue of Egbert van Heemskerck, the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Military: recruiting sergeants -- Food: roast beef -- Plum pudding -- Buildings -- Signs: tavern signboard -- Nest made of a bottle -- Elephants -- Boars -- Monkeys -- Cats.
Publisher:
Robert Sayers?
Subject (Topic):
Recruiting & enlistment, Military uniforms, Drums (Musical instruments), Banners, Taverns (Inns), Birds, and Nests
A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postillion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air
Alternative Title:
Changing horses on the road to Paris
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower left., and One of five views by the artist F.G. Byron that record his visit to France in 1790; they were exhibited at the Society of Artists the following year. This drawing was exhibited under the title "Changing horses on the road to Paris" (Society of Artists, 1791, no. 39).
Subject (Geographic):
Clermont (France) and France.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Taverns (Inns), Postillions, French, Peasants, Country life, Ethnic stereotypes, and Drums (Musical instruments)
Title devised by curator., Horace Walpole's note beneath image: Wyke., Note on verso: "Kaye Dowland 1872.", Note on verso, in unknown hand, "No. 219.", Illegible text in image., Formerly mounted and hinged, with residual glue and paper on four corners of the recto., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production from Annie Burr Lewis's note that was pasted to the back of former frame: This is a French 18th century "pin prick" picture., and Temporary local subject terms: Pin prick (pouncing) -- Women in literature and art.
