"One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of No. 12926. Two sets of four dance as before but the ladies and their partners stand alternately, instead of two ladies being together in the middle of each row. A lady playing a harp sits on the settee, a man stands beside her. A man facing the fireplace ties his cravat; another reaches up with a cane, perhaps to adjust the gas which issues from two serpents decorating the top of the mirror, on which stand also two lamps with globes and chimneys. In place of the chinoiserie chandeliers against the wall are two pictures, one of a couple turning together (as in No. 12925) against an architectural background, one of three naked savages posturing outside their tents. There is a hanging chandelier with gas or oil lamps with globes and chimneys."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Practicing Quadrille dancing at home for fear of accidents at the ball
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "No. 4" in upper left corner.
A young gentleman and lady dance in the center of a large hall in a grand country home surrounded by other young would-be dancers. The older guests sit in chairs and look on. They dance to music provided by a harpist
Description:
Title etched below image., Added in manuscript in lower right corner below design: B.C. 1790 delt., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted verse below title: "There did the harp the melting music of Erin shed its mellifluent notes.", Mounted on verso of: Plan of the citadel and forts of Antwerp and Dutch works. 1832. Lithographed by J. Netherclift, 54 Leic[este]r Sq. 3rd ed. With the French batteries., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Date from ESTC., Verse - "Come you gallants all, to you I call,". - In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 36. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
A satire on Madame Mara: She sits in an armchair decorated with Masonic symbols which is in the center of a concert room, with a boarded floor and low platform along the back for the performers. She sings the lines "Oh, Oh, de roasta beef-a de charmante pudding O"; in her hands is an open music book titled "Oh the road beed of Old England, Fieldings popular song. The plebeian audience sit or stand along the right and left foreground. On the left a lady asks her neioghbor, "Did she sing this sogn at the Abbey?" He responds, "She never sung so well as the Abbey in her life." In the center foreground sits a dog who watches the vocalist. The wall is decorated with candle-sconces and a placard with the "Rules to be observed in this meeting" which jabs at the plebeian audience. One man performs on a salt-box, another with marrow-bone and cleaver while yet another puts a Jew's harp in his mouth; a fourth plays a bladder bridge. See British Museum catalogue for further discussion
Description:
Title etched below image., Seven lines of descriptive prose inscribed below title., Possibly engraved by Henry Wigstead (d. 1793). See attribution in British Museum catalogue to Mr. Hawkins., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 28th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Wapping (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Masons, Audiences, Concerts, Dogs, Etiquette, Harps, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A charming lady, elegantly dressed, plays the harp and sings close to her unconscious husband, asleep in a stiff arm-chair. Pose and expression are both provoked and provocative. Behind her (right) is a square piano with an open music-book, at her feet a lute-like instrument and a music-book. An oval fire-screen protects the man's head from a blazing fire in a fire-place of Adam type. A picture of (?) Apollo with a lyre is in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 9677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 266-7., and On leaf 73 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Sleeping, Chairs, Harps, Stringed instruments, Pianos, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
"A lady, young and beautiful, sits in an arm-chair, her head in profile to the left, gazing at her reflection in a standing pier-glass. She wears a dress cut very low, with short puffed sleeves, a small hat supporting two tall feathers and showing curls surrounding her face. A miniature on a long double chain is attached to her corsage. She holds a small round box of some cosmetic. Behind her a parasol lies on a table, with a ring in place of ferrule. Behind this stands an ornate harp, with three pedals, decorated with a winged female figure and roses, a suitable instrument for the display of rounded arms. Fringed curtains frame a tall window, which throws a strong light on lady and mirror."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Looking glass in favor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Companion print to: The looking glass in disgrace.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Mirrors, Feathers, Draperies, Umbrellas, and Harps
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of Paul Prys caricatuers, none are original without McLeans name., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Popery -- Reference to Constitution -- Ornate staves -- Personification of Hibernia -- Emblems -- Pope's triple crown., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 170.
Publisher:
Pub. June 5th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dated in British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1771., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 29., Temporary local subject terms: Hibernia (Symbolic character) -- Secret influence -- Sport: cricket bat., and Lower corners cut off diagonally.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to right., a harpist and a door through which enter a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image., Caption in five columns below image., and "Plate 3."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
A writing sheet engraved with vignettes and the large interior space left blank. At the top is a scene with a throne on a platform in the center at the top of a pie-shaped set of stairs with angels standing along the edges on both the right and the left. Behind the line of angels are crowds of people, with the group from the left seemingly walking towards the right. Along the base of the design is a banner held at either end by cherubs blowing horns, inscribed are the words "Come unto me; ye blessed!" Many of the figures in the crowds wear crowns, one holds a harp and another a censer on a chain. The back of the throne is decorated with three connected triangles, points down and with a crown above the oval head rest, rays of light emanating from all sides. On the left margin are vignettes entitled "The birth" and "The wedding" and on the right "The christening" and "The burial". At the foot of the plate is an image of a dragon-like beast from whose mouth streams a banner bearing the engraved text: “There shall be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth". A large oval shape on the dragon's body is left blank
Alternative Title:
Come unto me, ye blessed!
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of publication based on manuscript note at foot of sheet., Lewis Walpole Library impression: Center blank space is filled in with three manuscript poems in black ink entitled 'On resurrection', 'On mortality', and 'On death'. The document is signed in the blank oval on the side of the dragon, "William Lea Yoxall's Christmas piece, December 16th, 1798, Chester"., With three poems entitled “On the Resurrection", "On mortality", and "On death” written in ink at center of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
