A sailor in a shore town greets a fellow sailor in front of a tavern and converse about the pleasures of shore leaves. A smiling young woman dances with her hands on her hips as a man plays a fiddle. Another woman sits close to another man a table outside in front of the tavern window
Alternative Title:
Jack and his doxy
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '247' in 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., Below image and imprint, a dialogue between two sailors about enjoying shore life., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 20th Octr. 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Musicians, Prostitutes, Sailors, Ships, Taverns (Inns), and Violins
"View of the Jubilee Fair in Hyde Park; in foreground to left a small stage erected with a band playing and jesters performing, a small crowd stands in front, a few tents in central foreground with signs such as "Duke of Wellington Whitbreads Intire", and on a lamp "Dancing and Singing Here"; beyond a crowd stands by river bank watching a sham sea fight, many sailing ships on water with smoke billowing from the scene, on the opposite river bank the fair continues."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Text below image: This fair and naumachy or sham sea fight in Hyde Park was in honour of peace. This jubilee on Augt. 1, 1814, was to celebrate the return of peace and the centenary of the reign of the illustrious House of Brunswick and to commemorate the glorious Battle of the Nile., With lettered key (from A to D) etched on either side of text below image: A. The Naumachy, representing the Battle of the Nile. B. The Serpentine River. C. The fair, which lasted upwards of a week. D. The fireworks in Kensignton Gardens let off at eleven at night., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Print glazed; removed from contemporary frame (53 x 62 cm) which is stored separately.
Publisher:
Published Sept. 10, 1814, by J. Pitts, No. 14 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Buildings, Temporary, Parks, Banners, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fairs, Fireworks, Fools & jesters, Historical reenactments, Musicians, and Show tents
Title below image., Date and place of publication derived from original containing volume., From: Album comique de pathologie pittoresque, Paris: A. Tardieu, 1823., Above image: Album Comique., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Ambroise Tardieu Editeur r du Battoir, No.12 and Lith. de Langlumé r de l'Abbaye No.4.
Subject (Topic):
Asthma, Cough, Allergy, Musicians, Singing, and Violins
"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.
"Heading to an engraved broadside. A servants' ball in the Pavilion, the musicians in the gallery being Ministers (left to right): Sidmouth and Liverpool play a duet at a square piano, gaping at each other; Eldon blows bagpipes; Castlereagh plays a harp. George IV waltzes with a fat, plainly dressed cook; he says: "How poor a thing may do a noble office!" A black footman dances with a fat lady; another lady dances amorously with a fat footman. One courtier (Bloomfield) dances with and embraces a fat cook, another has a more elegant partner. In the foreground stands Lady Conyngham (left), distressed and alarmed, her husband's antlered profile is just behind her; both wear coronets. She says: "Ah! with his scullion! Titles & rank are my defence But what can save her insolence!" He says: "If he has turn'd up my Wife I indeed may say--[citing Wolsey] "Farewell a long farewel to all my greatness!"" The wall and gallery are patterned with Chinese figures. The verses begin: 'Releas'd from all the toils of State . . .' The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 10th of 12 verses: '"I've supp'd within my kitchen range, "But I'll descend no more;* "The scene this night I'll wholly change, "Upstairs--invite uproar. "No virtuous women visit me-- "They dread to lose their name-- "I'll condescend--with those make free "Who never blush'd with shame. "Twas wrong when C--e eat perchance, With Vassali and Bergami-- "I'll eat with Cooks, with Scullions dance-- "I can't do wrong [see British Museum Satires No. 14133], G--d d--n me." . . . And Cunning-one moved not a limb, But stood amazed with wonder! To see the K--g's disgraceful whim, And, Vow'd she'd pull 'm asunder. . . ."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humours of the great baby at B***ht*n and Humours of the great baby at Brighton
Description:
Title etched in center of plate, below image and above verses., Printmaker attribution to Marks from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, beginning: Releas'd from all the toils of state, From care and sorrow free ..., Text in lower margin, beneath verses: *See Marks's caricature of "He stoops to conquer, or, R-l George sunk" [British Museum Satires No. 13210]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 48 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Ld. Bloomfield," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of image; figures of "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," "Eldon," and "Londonderry" idenfied in pencil above print on mounting sheet. Date "24 Jan. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of ten lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. by J.L. Marks, No. 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Balls (Parties), Adultery, Musicians, Servants, Dance, and Antlers
A barge sailing along a hilly shore has as the figure-head at the high stern a bearded, Semitic face with a high pompadour of hair. Above it waves a huge ensign. Beneath the flag a man plays on the fiddle. The crew of eight, in shirts with black ties and tricorne hats, rows along. Their hair is arranged in macaroni clubs or queues. One of them is drowsing, another falls backwards. Behind them, a macaroni with a tricorne hat in his hand sits astride the bow
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publd. accordg. to the act by J. Lockington, Shug Lane
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Musicians, Musical instruments, and Sailors
