"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confin'd! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconemy [sic].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Families, Interiors, Poor persons, Povery, Sewing, and Fireplaces
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: What misery in a narrow scale confined! The mournful work of one degenerate mind ..., and Companion print to: The fruits of early industry & oeconomy.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Freeborn Englishman
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike of a plate possibly first published ca. 1820. For prints of similar title and composition, published in 1813 and 1819, see nos. 12037 and 13287 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 46 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Poor persons, Locks (Hardware), Taxes, Food, and Inkstands
Leaf 32. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A re-issue of British Museum Satires No. 2277 referring to the Gin Act of 1736; the only alteration being the reference to the Act of 1751."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Restrike, bearing the Bowles imprint statement of the 1751 reissue. For original issue of the plate, published by J. Clark in 1736, see no. 2277 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Remnants of original imprint statement, burnished from the plate prior to its reissue in 1751, are faintly visible in upper right margin., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below banner with title., Dedication above image: To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe act) the distillers, this plate is most humbly inscrib'd by a lover of trade., Five columns of verse below image: Gins fun'ral mourn, lo! near the body, in ragged state moves rueful Loddy* ..., and On leaf 32 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Title etched on image., Date portion of imprint emphasized in contemporary ms. hand., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where prints and drawings are lent out on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. July 10, 1803 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Dogs, Fighting, Gambling, Intoxication, Pickpockets, Poor persons, Seduction, Street vendors, Taverns (Inns), and Urination
"Six scenes from the parable: 'The Prodigal Son Receives his Patrimony'; 'The Prodigal Son Taking Leave'; 'The Prodigal Son in Excess'; 'The Prodigal Son in Misery'; 'The Prodigal Son Returns Reclaim'd'; 'The Prodigal Son Feasted on his Return'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above images., Six images in two rows on one plate, each with caption., Plate numbered(?) in lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Bible: parables, Prodigal son, St. Luke, XV -- Clergymen -- Domestic service -- Food: meat -- Farms -- Feeding pigs -- Clarinet -- viola -- Violin -- Furniture -- Table settings -- Chippendale mirror -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Architectural details -- Carpets -- Wall paneling -- Bags of money -- Patrimony -- Valises -- Money chests -- Female costume, 1776 -- Male costume, 1776., and Watermark: Strasburg bend on the right side of sheet, countermark I V on the left.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prodigal son (Parable), Parables, Clergy, Servants, Musical instruments, Prostitutes, and Poor persons
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Protestant clergymen reduced to poverty."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "120" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 120.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Poor persons, Spears, Pigs, Cauldrons, Bibles, and Signs (Notices)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six people, rich and poor, from different backgrounds bound to face the lack of supplies."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "78" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 78.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Spies, Upper class, Poor persons, and Clergy
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Sheet trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 5th. 1829. by S. Gans Southhampton Street
Date of publication from ESTC., Joshua Davenport at this address 1800-1802 (Maxted)., First line reads: Sweet dear and loving wife., In six columns with the title and a woodcut above the first three; the columns are separated by decorative borders., Mounted on leaf 64. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Lane, West Smithfield, London
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, English, Poverty, Christianity, Ballads, English, Prayer, Poor persons, Fireplaces, and Children
