A scene of a busy market in the West Indies with enslaved, free Africans, and white mingling amongst the vendors: The Black vendors are seated on the ground with their wares displayed around them, including produce (mellons, pineapples, bananas, etc.), livestock (goats, pigs, poultry, etc.); one man (left) is holding a lizard (iguana?); a little boy holds a bird on his finger. One woman carries her chickens and a piglet in a basket balanced on her head. Customers, both Black and mixed-race, mingle with vendors. White women with umbrellas and white men wearing hats walk among the vendors; a horse and carriage and buildings are in the background
Description:
Title from text below image., Based on a 1806 etching with the title: Negroes Sunday Market at Antigua. Engraved by Cordon, Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. See National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., Motte started publishing in 1818 in Paris, opened a branch in London in 1830, and moved to 70 St. Martin's Lane in 1831. See British Museum online catalogue., "From an original drawing taken in 1806."--Lower left, below design., After W.E. Beastall and the engraving by Cardon. Cf. Negroes Sunday market at Antigua / engraved by Cardon. Pub. by G. Tustolini, London, 1806. Accession reference: National Maritime Museum, ZBA2594., and Imprint partially burnished and illegible.
Publisher:
Printed by Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Animals, Farm produce, Markets, Poultry, and Slave trade
Satire on the the criminal conversation between the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor with Cumberland wearing a fool's cap; a servant spills a glass of wine on the Duke. The scene takes place in a bedchamber with a curtain around the bed, with a table set with a meal including wine bottles, wine glasses, and roasted fowl. On the wall hangs a large mirror
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 75., Text above image: For the Oxford mag., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 February 1796]
Call Number:
796.02.24.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A country yokel in a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a stool beside a simple table outside in a farm house opposite a pigsty wtih a large pig and her piglets and chickens and their chicks running around in alarm. In the upper left sky a flock of parson in the form of birds fly in various directions. A second man sits on the gate looking up at the clergy/birds
Description:
Also attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in unverified information from card., Publisher's statement following imprint: Folios 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., Paper watermarked T.W. 1795., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Published Febry. 24, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Farms, Pipes (Smoking), Poultry, and Swine
A group of sportsmen stand amongst the gravestones in a churchyard cemetary aiming their guns at a flock of birds. Their hunting dogs run toward the birds. In a grave behind a tombstone (left), a gravedigger cowers in fear, a skull and pick axe beside him. In the distance the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (?).
Alternative Title:
First of September
Description:
Caption title printed in letterpresss below etching., Imprint engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 45 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 1st 1792 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Game bird hunting, Gravedigging, Hunting dogs, Poultry, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:
Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litle girl who also holds a chicken. Another large basket sits on the ground on the right opposite a chicken with her three little chicks
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
View of a poultry shop, displaying turkeys, geese, ducks, and, oddly, pigs and rabbits
Alternative Title:
Poultry
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of a set of four views of London markets, the other prints showing "Meat," "Fish," and "Fruit" markets., and For a related drawing at the Yale Center for British Art, see accesssion no.: B1977.14.4099.
Publisher:
Published May 10, 1822, by Edwd. Orme, Editor of Prints to the King, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Markets, Food vendors, Poultry, and City & town life
Printmaker identified from the original drawing for this print in the Huntington Library collection. and Temporary local subject terms: Absentmindedness: walking into a pond -- Bridges: stiles.
Publisher:
Publish'd 10th Jany. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Fans (Accessories), Poultry, Umbrellas, and Walking
"A farm-yard scene with Windsor Castle in the distance (right). In the centre four pigs feed at a trough; George III (right) and Queen Charlotte (left) stand on each side of it facing each other in profile, both slightly caricatured. At the King's feet are a bucket and a young pig. The Queen scatters grain to chickens and ducks. On the right a guardsman walks off carrying a bundle of turnips across his shoulder (see BMSat 6946). In the background (left) are haystacks and farm buildings; from one projects the sign of a royal crown inverted. A young woman (probably one of the princesses) advances with a basket (cf. BMSat 7897). On the right is a large placard on a post, 'Mantraps & Spring Guns'. Behind it are sheep."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Kingsbury in Angelo's Reminiscences, 1904, v. i, p.326., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Queen Charlotte and George III identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprll [sic] 29, 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Farms, Farmers, Poultry, Sheep, Haystacks, Military uniforms, British, Signs (Notices), Swine, and Troughs
