A short, soot-covered chimney-sweep embraces a tall, pretty kitchen maid who holds a spoon in her hand. His bag and brush are on the floor by the baking oven behind him. Another chimney-sweep, sitting in the cavity of the cold fireplace and chewing on bones, watches the pair. On the wall above the bake oven hang copper and brass pots and pans and a chopper and a ballad sheet; on the mantel above the fireplace are candesticks and a mortar and pestle
Alternative Title:
Enterprising chimney sweeper
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: So fine a girl! you must belie her, would never let that sweep come nigh her ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 36 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 26, 1772, by W. Humphrey at the Shell Warehouse, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Embracing, Kitchens, Ovens, Pots & pans, and Servants
Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A kitchen scene. An ugly parson holding a small slice of meat speared on a fork, angrily berates his gardener (right), pointing behind him to a vast round of beef on the table (left). He bawls: 'Tis my Beef you rascal I'll swear to the Complexion of it--& my Bread too! & I'll have you hanged for stealing it. The gardener, a young man holding a spade, draws back in astonishment, saying, Lord love your Reverence my Aunt gave me that slice of Bread & Beef for my dinner to day!! The comely cook holds up her hands and turns up her eyes, exclaiming: O L--d O L--d what a x x x !!!!! it is no more like his Beef than I am--. A mouse scampers off, saying, Besides, if it was Cookee, what a d--d mean wretch to take notice of it-- 'tis time for me to be off! On the table are also a huge loaf, a slice of bread, and a knife. A leg of mutton is on a shelf; a large dresser with dishes, drawers, pots, &c, and a roller towel form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vialls of wrath!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14407 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Plate originally published in 1822; see British Museum catalogue., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 714., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1059., and On leaf 31 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Vialls, Thomas, 1768?-1831 and Sharp, Joseph, active 1822
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 December 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 45. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In his kitchen, the angry sultan stands at right with a stick in his hand, ready to swing for the figure in the fireplace at left, which is actually the body of a man suspended by loops of rope under his arms, the sultan's wife standing behind at right; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Decr. 24, 1785, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Subject (Topic):
Sultans, Anger, Kitchens, Staffs (Sticks), and Fireplaces
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Imprint from impression in the Yale Center of British Art., Plate from: Adventures of Roderick Random in Smollett's Works., Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: v. 1, p. 58., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item., Date derived from information about Coopération Pédagogique., and Coopération Pédagogique is also known as Éditions Rossignol, and produced educational posters. This poster appears to be from a series of scenes of everyday life produced for school children.
Publisher:
Coopération Pédagogique - Nalliers (Vienne)
Subject (Topic):
Nutrition, Families, Middle class families, Eating & drinking, Kitchens, Appliances, Children, Mothers, Fathers, and Grandparents
The interior of a kitchen in a French inn, with figures including that of a curé conversing in a bland way with a man who, standing in huge sabots, holds a glass of drink; his hat is of a peculiarly extravagent shape. A woman with both hands under her apron is bowing to the curé; next to her a very tall and lean postillion is taking snuff from his box; he wears the customary enormous boots of his class. A boy in big wooden shoes clatters across the floor and wears a long queue
Description:
Title, artist, and date form inscription below design., Published etching based on this drawing is described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4764, and For further information, consult library staff.
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Kitchen of a French post house ; Playing billiards
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. No. 4764 in v. 4 and no. 5913 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1749 ; 59.533.1747., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 60 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
769.07.01.01+
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and approximate date of publication from smaller version in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.344., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., A depiction of a scene from a performance of High life below stairs (1759), the popular Georgian comedy by James Townley., For a related drawing, attributed to Francis Grose, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawings G877 no. 1., and Laid down on stiff sheet.