"Three ladies are seated in a box, their arms to the elbow are in enormous fur muffs which project over the front of the box. Beneath them, to indicate the fur of the muff and (apparently) the character of the lady, is engraved respectively 'Mrs Bruin', 'Miss Chienne', 'Miss Renard'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 23.3 x 23.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Garden
Title from item., Below title: Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Jany. 1820., Plate from: Wilkes, John, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, London: J. Adlard, 1820., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
James Adlard
Subject (Topic):
Optics, Eyes, Telescopes, Projectors, Optical devices, Supernatural beings, and Putti
A crowd of rotund stock brokers sit and stand around a table and against a wall with a clock. The broker centered in the front reads from a copy of the Gazette Extraordinary while some of the others peer over his shoulders looking for news, many where glasses and one uses a glass to read the print on the page. To his left at the table is a broker holding bank stock in his right hand, and another broker knocking over a bottle of Madeira at the table
Alternative Title:
Gazette extraordinary
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Dighton from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1318., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 29 April 1795 by Haines & Son, No. 19, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Intoxication, Newspapers, Optical devices, and Stockbrokers
"The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: "Ladies & Gentlemen-- I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic's". A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: "I humbly ax pardon Sir -but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles". The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant's son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with 'Hop Mer...' on its collar, watches the lecturer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Whatman.
"The Green Bag explodes, throwing into the air Eldon, Liverpool, Sidmouth, and Castlereagh. With these fly up the clyster-pipe and scourge of the last two, and papers: 'Rastelli's Pasport' [see British Museum Satires No. 13903], 'Majocchis Evidence' [see British Museum Satires No. 13827], 'Madle Demonts Evidence' [see British Museum Satires No. 13856], 'Sacchi's Evidence'. The explosion is due to a beam from a mirror (right) inscribed 'Lens of Truth'. P. 25: Z, for the Zanies, in frantic despair, Their bag of combustion blown into the air; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Z, for the zanies, in frantic despair, their bag of combustion blown into the air ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., 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, Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820., Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820., Rastelli, Giuseppe, active 1820., Sacchi, Giuseppe, active 1820., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lawyers, Bags, Explosions, Medical equipment & supplies, Whips, Optical devices, and Documents