"A wild affray round a circular gaming-table seen at close range, only the heads and shoulders of those on the nearer side of the table being visible. An angry military officer wearing a cocked hat, with an empty wallet on the table before him, leans forward aiming his pistol at a lean and elderly man whose 'chapeau bras' and long pigtail indicate that he is French. The latter covers a pile of guineas with his hand and aims a pistol at his assailant. Some of the players are falling over in their eagerness to escape. Between the combatants, and on the further side of the table, one man holds a chair above his head, about to smite the officer; a fellow-officer raises a bottle and a candle-stick to strike the Frenchman. All the persons (sixteen) are in violent action, with which their expressions correspond. Some are in flight, others about to intervene. On the table are a triple candle-stick, a dice-box and dice, a sword, a hat containing coins, and a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker's signature from impression in British Museum., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and printmaker's signature has been mostly erased., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1790 by Wm. Holland, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Fighting, Gambling, Handguns, Men, French, Military uniforms, and British
An older man in profile, looking right with his eyes looking back over his shoulder, within an oval, wearing a hat and with a riding crop under his arm
Description:
Title on item., Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Cf. No. 8037 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted to 27 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 21, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
A man in profile, looking left, within an oval, wearing a hat and with a riding crop under his arm
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Dighton; see British Museum catalogue., Numbered "357" in lower left of plate., No. 10 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., Sheet trimmed with loss of number "357" and imprint., and 1 print; mezzotint on wove paper; sheet 14.8 x 11.2 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 9 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of live -- tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. -- stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief expressions of their 'wants': "I want a job"; "I want more customers"; "I want a husband"; "I want for death", etc. Only an obese gentleman on the right is content: "I want for nothing"; next to him, the military officer with a monocle says, "I don't know what I want."
Alternative Title:
Human nature delineated
Description:
Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Quotation following title: Lord, what an amorous thing is want. Hudibras., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Attributed to C.J. Grant based on style and association with other signed drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Distress, Men, Military officers, Occupations, and Women
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: Caricaturana No. 53., Below left: Ch:Ph:invt.H.D. lith., Originally published in Le Charivari, 18 January 1837., 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: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert, gal véro dodat and Imp. d'Aubert et de Junca
Subject (Topic):
Medical care, Cost of., Pharmacists, Drugstores, Men, Medicines, Scales, and Sticks (Staffs).
Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi and White's Club coat of arms
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image; the motto "Cog it amor nummi" is written within a banner at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Copy of a drawing by Richard Edgcumbe, designed along with George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole, that was produced in 1756 at Strawberry Hill. The original drawing was sold in lot 12 of the 22nd day of the Strawberry Hill Sale in 1842., Date of production based on death date of T. Crofton Croker, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., For an engraving after the original drawing, see no. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill., and With a clipping, mounted in upper right corner of sheet, that describes a portfolio of prints and drawings from Strawberry Hill; the clipping is annotated "See 22d day, lot 10" in ink at top.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Name):
White's Club (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Men, Societies and clubs, Playing cards, and Coats of arms
Title from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's history., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Lorillard Tobacco Company
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Smokeless tobacco, Tobacco chewing, and Men
