A French man stands in profile to the right in front of his upturned chair, his hand on his protruding belly as if in pain, as an older woman sits at the table refilling his tea cup. A young woman stands behind the woman at the table, smiling behind a fan as she looks at the visitor. An older man sits at the table amused at the French man's distress. A dog drinks from a saucer under the table. The party is in evening dress, the curtains drawn, and a chandelier of four gas lamps hangs over the square tea-table laid with the tea service and tray
Alternative Title:
English manners and French politeness
Description:
Title etched above image. and Below image, five lines of text: A Frenchman not aware of the custom, constantly returned his cup without the spoon in it, which being immediately replenished by thelady of the house, he thought it a point of politeness to drink the contents which he continued to do, to the great surprise of the company until he perceived the lady pouring out the 14th cup, when he rose in great agony and cried, Ah! Madame excuse me I can take no more.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Etiquette, Foreign visitors, French, Manners and customs, and Tea parties
A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse below title: "While graceful Marian leads the gay Quadrille", "What new sensations Henry's boson fill," "An introduction gained, the youth advances" "And hope she's disengaged the two next dances.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.27.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An older man grins broadly as he bows to a woman with a hand-muff who curtsies in return
Description:
Title-page vignette. and Title page from: An Olio of Good Breeding : with sketches illustrative of the modern graces!! / by G.M. Woodward. London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Clarke ..., [1797].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[179-?]
Call Number:
790.00.00.140++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Twenty pairs of people, arranged in panels in four rows, the first eight of which are engaged in a range of activities in which the pair misunderstand each other owing to mispronunciation indicating their differences in class. The next four panels illustrate scenes in which the pair debate the virtues and benefits of drinking various spirits. The final eight panels depict the attempts of a "Master Sargent" to train a country yokel as a soldier
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and date suggested by a print with the same title and scenes similar to the first eight. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9646., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Etiquette, Manners & customs, Social classes, Soldiers, and British
"Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. BMSat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (Small copy in Grego.) Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? Lord Moira) resembles Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Politesse du grande monde
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 27th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Crowds, Etiquette, Show windows, and Window displays
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.2
Image Count:
311
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1774.
Call Number:
Quarto 49 436
Container / Volume:
v.1
Image Count:
296
Description:
BEIN Z78 061t: Bookplates of Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg and Lawrence A. Waldron. This copy has bound in at end of vol. 2 two leaves. Additional notes which were prepared when the 4th edition was published, to supply former purchasers with notes that had been added. and Horace Walpole's copy, with many notes and marks. Modern half-calf (in boards in 1842). Bookplate 2 later state (in 1st volume). With W.S. Lewis's notes.
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 29 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
"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
"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. and Proof state with light scratch lettering. For later state with lettering, see no. 5919 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publishd. Octor. 10, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83, opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
