Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1782.
Call Number:
Bunbury 782.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in an oval. An old military officer with a wooden leg describes his campaigns to two cronies. He is seated in a chair (right) in profile to the left wearing regimentals and sword, his wig has a long loosely twisted pigtail queue; his wooden leg (right) projects horizontally from his chair. He holds a map or plan taken from the wall, and is showing it to a stout man sitting on his right, who looks at it through spectacles. The third man standing behind, his left arm on the back of the soldier's chair, looks over their shoulders at the map. At their feet a small dog lies asleep. Through the open door (left) a man is seen dancing along while he plays a fiddle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fought all his battles over again and thrice he slew the slain
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, Musicians, Peg legs, and Wigs
Title etched below image., Signed "M." in the lower right corner of design., Publication date partly trimmed; verified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, Butcher shops, Dance, Dogs, Musicians, and Political elections
"Full-length portrait, seated on a chair in centre, writing a music score on a table, looking up to top right; to right, a young angel standing in profile to left, putting a crown of laurels over Handel's head; a little angel flying above them, holding a banner with Handel's name; light shining from top; pipe-organ to left; in an oval frame decorated with laurels and a banner; book-illustration to 'An account of the musical performances in commemoration of Handel'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 19 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
To the right of a round dining table is seated a woman with the head of Cecilia Johnston and the body of a cat. She is saying grace, joined by two cats who sit on the table in prayerful attitudes. A mandolin and musical score lie on the floor
Alternative Title:
Old cat and her favourites going to dinner
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., and Print has been attributed to Gillray by Draper Hill, Jr.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1782 by I. Langham, St. Bride's Passage, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817.
Subject (Topic):
Musicians, Prayer, Cats, Dining tables, and Mandolins
An interior with a stout dancing master in the centre of the room teaching a dandified gentleman to dance, while another man sits with his feet in a trough to force his feet to turn outwards. A fiddler seated in the leftt foreground, with an ear trumpet resting beside him on books, one labelled 'Hornpipes Seriously Considered', and with two kittens playing in the violin case, an advertisement reading 'Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance, & Qualify'd to appear in the most Brilliant Assemblies at the easy Expence of 1L 11s 6d', and a picture on the wall with a woman dancing
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below title: Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Bradford., Probably original of no. 4250 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: opera dancer -- Theatrical costume: opera dancer's costume -- Music books -- Hairdressing: curl papers -- Placards: dancing lessons advertisement -- Dancing: channel for training feet.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dancers, Dandies, British, Hearing aids, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Title engraved below image., Below title: Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith., Attribution to Rennoldson based on companion print: Grown ladies &c. taught to dance., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Musicians: violinist -- Ear-trumpets -- Pictures amplifying subject: opera dancer -- Opera dancers: Madame Elastique -- Theatrical costume: opera dancer's costume -- Musical instruments: violin with case -- Music books -- Curl papers -- Placards: dancing lessons advertisement -- Literature: allusion to Works of Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 -- Allusion to Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke, 1632-1704 -- Furnishings: pulley stiles.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers., and Bound in opposite page 79 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?].
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
