The husband and wife of British Museum satires number 14307 sit in a luxurious breakfast parlour, turning their backs on each other and the table. She caresses a cat, facing an empty grate (right); he is absorbed in a newspaper
Three men are seated around a table, from left to right a squire wearing spectacles and reading aloud from the Daily Advertiser, a parson in the center smoking a pipe and raising a glass of punch, and a barber with his wig askew on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued March 7, 1777; believed to be Gillray's first etching., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 11, 1784, 227 Strand, London, by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Reading, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Barbers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
A man sits in a chair at a table reading about the French Revolution in The Gazetteer (newspaper). The candle in his right hand smokes heavily and is burnt down to a low stub. His tricorne hat is on the table and his walking stick is visibly leaning on the table
Description:
Title from item., Cf. William Hogarth's A politician, no. 1., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Newspapers, Reading, History, and Foreign public opinion
Date of publication from ESTC., First line: "Yesterday Dr. Prettyman preach'd at St. James's-"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are separated by a plain rule., Refers to Sir John Fielding, who died in 1780. Similar item at T36832 with imprint: Fowler, printer, Salisbury., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 34. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Newspaper, Wit and humor, and Reading
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
A young woman sits on the bank of a small river, under a tree with a book in her hands and gazes into the distance. Sun rays break through the clouds above a small house in the distance on the left
Description:
Title from item. and Number '176' in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Print, Map and Chartseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
An aspirational dustman in ragged clothes, a monocle hanging from his hat, and smoking a cigar, sits in a chair before the hearth reading a book, "An introduction to the pleasures of ... schince by Barnart Botherum [...] dedicated to the majesty of the people". On the table are bowl, a goblet and a bottle of Port. On the wall hangs a landscape and on the mantel a bust of Shakespeare. The dog at his feet stares at the fire, the bones of fish dinner on a plate beside him. A large bell sits on the floor beside the dustman
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 1"--Upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published April 1828 by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Dustmen, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Interiors, Fireplaces, Smoking, and Reading
"A woman sitting in a chair at left reading from a book to a girl with a dog and boy standing and another girl sitting at right, all with sullen expressions; after Bunbury, second state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3002., Four lines of verse below title: By angels caught, all-hallow'd as they flow, are tears we shed for sorrows not our own; and bosoms heaving for anothers woe, waft their own incense to the heavenly throne. EW [monogram]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: ?Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687., and Mounted on page 101 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29, 1782, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
