publish'd according to act of Parliament October 1st 1762.
Call Number:
762.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man in a fur hat and a fur-trimmed coat sits in front of a fireplace. In the foreground, his daughter kneels in front of fire using bellows to keep it going. In the background, his young son offers his father a bowl of steeming broth
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below image: In life's last scene the hoary man of years, emblem of Winter, wrapt in furr appears ...
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Children, Domestic life, Families, Fathers, and Older people
"Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Ode to Beauty'. Beside her sits a dog clipped in the French manner. The others stand facing her, one closing her eyes and clasping her hands, the other, who holds a fan, leers at her companion. These two wear nosegays. All have high-waisted dress with sashes. The reader wears a straw hat tied on with a scarf. Behind her is a tree on whose trunk letters are carved: 'W' and 'I C' (for the artists). In the background (left) is the corner of a house inscribed 'Young Ladies Genteely Boarded & Educated' by A Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from manuscript date added in contemporary hand in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with artist's and printmaker's names partially erased from plate, and without imprint. Cf .No. 8749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Companion print to: Young Gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boarding schools, Dogs, Girls, Jewelry, Older people, and Women
An old apple-woman sits asleep beside a table on which fruit (apples and strawberries) is arranged, with baskets under the table. A dog sleeps beside her. A little boy (left) pushes a shaft of wheat up her nose as a little girl behind him eggs him on. The children are dressed up, as if for Sunday, and the scene is in the fields near London, St. Paul's on the horizon. Behind the woman (right) is a closed box, resembling a sentry-box, on which are placards including an enlistment notice: 'All able bodied men willing to serve five guineas."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "586" in lower left corner., No. 37 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Children, Dogs, Food vendors, Older people, Posting signs & notices, Produce stands, Sleeping, and Teasing
Title devised by cataloger., From: Das Leben und die Meinungen des Tristram Shandy: Karl Ernst Bohn, Berlin, 1776., Top inscription: XI. ; VIII. Th. pag.75., Sheet trimmed through top inscription., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Karl Ernst Bohn
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Nursing, Wounds and injuries, Treatment, Nuns as nurses, Sick persons, Nuns, Bandages, Beds, Older people, Medicines, Swords & daggers, and Dogs
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state., Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit., Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363., Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses., Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 289 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?].
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants
Title and date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence in 1902., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left, additional inscription, probably publisher., and Stamp in lower left margin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Older people, Diseases, Geriatrics, Women, and Sick persons
A group of fashionably dressed elderly gentlemen engage in a range of activities including reading aided by magnifying lenses, browsing newspapers, and gazing into mirrors. A placard on the wall reads: Young gentlemen instructed in fashionable accomplishments
Description:
Title and date based on Laurie & Whittle published etching after this drawing. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Newspapers, Mirrors, Bachelors, and Hand lenses
Title from catalog., "Blampied Oct. 1929" inscribed above image, and "Blampied" reversed at lower right. "A." at lower left., Place of publication based on artist's place of residence., and In ink, "E. Blampied" at bottom center.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Gout, Newspapers, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks).
Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
"An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashioned coat buttoned to the neck. An outline sketch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Older men -- Walking staves., and Watermark (partial): I Ville...
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 15, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
