Titles from captions below individual images., Series titles from text above design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Design consists of ten images; most individually captioned.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Blanchesseuses. Washerwomen, (who seldom appear in the suds for want of an advantage they enjoy in the present instance, namely; "a nice drying day,") ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and has a baby strapped to her back
Alternative Title:
West India washer-woman
Description:
Title from caption below image, in French and English., "This plate is dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt. A. Brunias."--Dedication following title., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, No. 416 et au Palais Royal, au Pavillon près le bassin
Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and has a baby strapped to her back
Alternative Title:
West India washer-woman
Description:
Title from caption below image, in French and English., "This plate is dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt. A. Brunias."--Dedication following title., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge, resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Printed on laid paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, No. 416 et au Palais Royal, au Pavillon près le bassin
Title from item., Date supplied by curator. Donor dated item 1875., 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: Laboratory, interior; Scientific apparatus.
Lord North, fully clothed, sits in a washtub surrounded by scrub women or fish-wives, one of whom scrubs him with a brush, while another ladles soapy water over him. A fox (Charles James Fox) observes the scene from the extreme left, while the Devil stands holding a trident on the right. A response to North's unpopular increase in the duty on soap
Alternative Title:
Lord North in the suds
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Attributed to T. Colley in British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Evans Oxford Street Mch. 27, 1782 London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Soap, Taxation, Devil, Laundresses, Bathing, and Clothing & dress
Lord North at a wash-tub, washing clothes, with women standing round him. He stands in profile to the left stooping over a tub resting on a square stool or table; he is in his shirt, with his sleeves tucked up, but wearing his garter ribbon. His coat, with its star, lies on a stool behind him. He says, "Oh Lord I wish that Fox at the Devil". In the foreground (left) a fox with playing-cards under its feet, is biting a sack inscribed "Budgett". One woman, in profile to the right, holds up her hands, saying "Poor man he must want a drop of comfort [i.e. gin]". A woman standing full face, behind the tub, says, "Look at him, see what he has got by his Taxation". The third woman stands behind North holding a cloth, and saying "He deserves this Clout pin'd to his tail". A small child with curly hair is looking over the edge of the wash-tub. Over North's head is suspended an axe, suggestive of the impeachment and capital punishment with which he had been threatened by the Opposition and Press, cf. BMSat 5660, 5661, 5964, 6046, &c. [Threats of impeachment and the block had been made by Burke and Fox, e.g. by Fox, 27 Nov. 1781, 'Parl. Hist.' xxii. 692: Ministers would he trusted expiate their measures "on the public scaffold".] The room is poverty-stricken, with plaster coming off the walls. On the table (left) is bottle and glass. In the foreground (right) is a barrel lying on its side inscribed "Gin". On the wall hangs a paper or broadside inscribed, "to praise Lord North i thirst it (?) no ten for he has [? illegible forborne] to tax our Dear Gin".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 1, 1782 by E. Dachery [sic] No. 11 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Laundresses, Wash tubs, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
A three-quarters length image of a pretty woman as she washes clothes in a tub
Description:
Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: TJB [?] 1828.
A scale is depicted in which Lord North, dressed as a washerwoman, is weighed down with the assistance of Fox (a fox on the cross beam). Or the right, Lord Shelburne, depicted as a Jesuit in monastic garb wearing the ribbon of a Knight of the Garter and holding a money bag signed "Blessings of Peace" in his right hand, sits in the upper pan of the balance, with his tombstone below. The attacks of the North-Fox coalition eventually led to Shelburne's stepping down in February 1783
Alternative Title:
Up with the Jesuit
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1783 by A. Killingbeck, Dover Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Laundresses, Monks, Foxes, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
