A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
Bouttats, Gerard, born 1630, active 1658, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1658]
Call Number:
Print01378
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's active date., Place of publication from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol; Greed; Politics; Poverty.
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from history of this advertisement., Text from poster: Enfoncez vous bien tous cette idée dans la tête les Poudres de Cock seules guérissent l'estomac / elles rendent l'appétit, font digerer et donnent des forces / C'est le vrai salut de l'estomac!, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pichot Paris
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Stomach, Diseases, Hammers, and Men
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Four vignettes signed Cham, one signed RB?, Above image: Études comiques sur le magnétisme.; 29., Recto of a sheet containing seven additional vignettes on verso (p. 29-30)., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Magnetism, Osmosis, Senses and sensation, Hypnotism, Soldiers, Sleeping, Ink, Kettles, Hammers, and Coffee
Traviès de Villers, Charles Joseph, 1804-1859, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1859]
Call Number:
Print00371
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Below image center: Rittner Boulevard Montmartre, No. 12; Hautecoeur Martinet, rue du Coq., Above image: No.27., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez Ostervald aîné, quai des Augustens, No.37 and Lith de V. Ratier
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Above image: L'imagination.; No. 9., In margin lower left: L de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No.4., Published in Le Charivari, 23 April 1833., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
On s'abonne chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat and L. de Bé́nard, rue de l'Abbaye No. 4.
Subject (Topic):
Headache, Imagination, Demons, Anvils, Sick persons, Bells, Hammers, and Nails & spikes
Titles etched below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs on one plate., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons and devils., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 222 x 313 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles etched below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs on one plate., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons and devils.
Plate [56] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England; Tyler in his smithy, holding a hammer in his right hand and raising his arm to strike the tax collector standing at left, who reaches greedily towards him, another collector behind him carrying a bag labelled 'poll tax / three groa[ts]'; a woman stands between the two men, attempting to hold back the tax collector; further angry people in the background, a snarling dog between Tyler's legs."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Collector of the poll tax murdered by Wat Tyler
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [56] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
