Title above image., First plate in a series of six entitled., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: authors -- Trades: publishers -- Literature: reference to Horace, 65-8 B.C., and Watermark: 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Septr. 13, 1796, by G.M. Woodward, No. 11 Berners St., Oxford St.
Title from item., First plate in a series of six entitled: Every body out of town., First published by G.M. Woodward in 1796., Printseller's announcement below image: Prints and drawings lent to copy., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: authors -- Trades: publishers -- Literature: reference to Horace, 65-8 B.C.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 14, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Second plate from a series of six., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Septr. 13, 1796, by G.M. Woodward, No. 11 Berners St., Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Brooches, Courtesans, Hats, Jewelry, Millinery, and Occupations
Title from item., First published before by G.M. Woodward in 1796., Printseller's announcement below image: Prints and drawings lent to copy., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: London doctors.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby 14, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Undertakers
Title from item., Fifth of six plates in a series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: London doctors -- Trades: undertakers -- Walking staves.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Sepr. 13, 1796, by G.M. Woodward, No. 11 Berners St., Oxford St.
Title from item., Plate 6 in a series of six., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: pawn shop brokers -- Shops: 'Three Blue Balls' -- Reference to Veymouth.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs, Sepr. 13, 1796, by G.M. Woodward, No. 11 Berners St., Oxford St.
Battle of the belles on [the] election of the King of Bath
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London, v. 2 (1769), p. 188., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: assembly room at Bath -- Fights -- Elections: election of the Master of the Ceremonies at Bath, 1769 -- Apothecary -- Physician -- Lawyer -- Military officers -- Cuckolds.
Design consists of male figures from various social classes, professions, ethnic groups, all caricatured, arranged in four horizontal rows all riding two-wheeled bicycles. Below four columns of verse commenting on the various types depicted: parson, lawyer, 'Cit', miser (a caricature of a Jewish man), dandy, tailor, balck man, Quaker, clowns, hunter, etc
Alternative Title:
Four and twenty hobby-horses all of a row
Description:
Title from caption below image., Four columns of verse in letterpress below title: Hobby's the word, and, onward sliding, all London Town is set a-riding ..., Publisher statement in etched below image., Printer statement in letterpress below verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1819, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Clowns, Ethnic stereotypes, and Occupations
