Title etched below image center., Place of publication derived from publisher's place of business., From: Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, edited by Thomas Holloway, London: John Stockdale, 1810., 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: Insanity; Hospitals, Interior; Emotions; Medicine & religion; Patients, psychiatric; Terror
A coach filled with passengers is driven by a coachman (smoking a pipe) and pulled by two teams of horses. The roof of the carriage is loaded with bags and a cage filled with poultry; the one bag is labeled 'Brussels'. Another cage of birds swings off the bottom of the carriage in the back, the top of which is covered in a tarp. The driver whips the lead team. A coat of arms decorates the door to the carriage
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Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Volume 2, page 35. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"An organ grinder turning angrily to left at the sight of a soldier placing his hand on the arm of a beautiful girl from his troupe playing the mechanical organ at left, his dog at his ankles reflecting his sentiment by growling at another at the soldiers feet, behind at left a woman beating a drum and on the right a young girl plays a triangle, two friars stand behind, ogling the organ player, buildings and a church on the street behind; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 35 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 20th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, Organ grinders, Drums (Musical instruments), Soldiers, Monks, and Dogs
Volume 2, page 88. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"A scene of the ancien régime: two elaborately dressed Frenchmen wearing swords stand 'chapeau-bras', facing each other in profile; one (left) wears a ribbon and rests his hands on a long cane. A monk (left) walks off in profile to the left. A stout elderly lady (right) holding a fan walks off to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 88 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 1st, 1794, by J. Jones, No. 74 Great Portland Street
A young, rotund friar sits at a table well-set with carafes, one each of red and white, and with plates of lushious fruit. He smiles as he raises his glass and looks at the viewer. Through the window (left) peeps a pretty young woman with a shawl over her head; she smiles slightly
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Title etched below image., Two numbered columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ..., Verses may be a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '428' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Fruit, Gluttony, Lust, and Monks
A monk seated in a high-backed carved chair on the left looks at a pretty young woman down on her right knee by his side. Her dress is that of the late 17th century. She gestures with her left hand while holding the right one to her breast. She appears to be aware of her charms, as well as the fact that they influence her confessor. The lady is tentatively identified as a Mrs. Russell
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Title from item., Publication date based on date of publisher's business operation. See British Book Trade Index online., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., The lady is identified in a manuscript note on verso of the mounting sheet as a "Mrs. Russell, called by Granger a London courtezan." See also The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life / P. Tempest. London, 1711, pl. 51., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note in an unidentified later hand identifying the female subject in the image.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Cooper at [the] 3 Pidgeons in Bedford Street
Volume 2, page 90. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"A friar standing in a landscape, a walking stick in his left hand and his hat down by his side in his right, a sack slung over his shoulder; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., "Second published state, after publication line altered"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.823., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale, penetrating, free from all common place ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this world. Vide Sterne., Illustration to Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey through France and Italy., and Mounted on page 90 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published March 8th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A satirical broadside, with two vignettes of the "Weaver". On the left the weaver is at his loom his back to his wife who is seated at the hearth warming her hands over the fire. On the right he is shown in the disguise of a Friar receiving his wife for confession as she kneels before him. Two columns of verse below: "A weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ... Twas you were the young man the old man & [the] Fryer. Finis."
Alternative Title:
Weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ...
Description:
Title from engraved text above image., All engraved., Date from British Book Trade Index., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With "Pro Patria" watermark.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne, map and printseller at the Globe in Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Weavers, Looms, Fireplaces, Confessions, Costumes, and Monks
"An elegant young woman in a décolletée dress with bare arms, and a fat elderly monk (right) embrace. Their profiles are concealed behind the pillar supporting the double arch through which the confessional is seen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Attribution to George Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Monks, Hugging, Confessionals, Columns, and Arches