A crowd of Londoners enjoying a variety of activities on the Nore
Description:
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Title, date, and place of publication from item., In lower margin: U. S. Government Printing Office : 1942-O-485813 ; WH 3., One of a series of WWII posters produced for the U.S. Public Health Service showing the "big lunk" doing all the right healthy things to keep on the job for the war effort., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service and U.S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Recreation, Sailors, and Bowling
publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?]
Call Number:
778.01.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four elegantly dressed young ladies are shown outside a brick or stone house with trees in the background. In the foreground a woman in a large hat is about to roll the ball at ninepins. Behind her two woman look on, one holding a bowl. To the right before a table with bottle and glass, another young lady drinks from a large tankard. On the far right a young girl sets up the pins
Description:
Title from item., Date based on that of the probable companion print Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger. See no. 4555 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Numbered in plate at lower left: 290.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Ch:Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Ninepins, Women, Recreation, Sports for women, Bowlers, Clothing & dress, Hats, and Drinking vessels
publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?]
Call Number:
778.01.01.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, Miss Wicket leans on her cricket-bat turning towards Miss Trigger who advances with her dogs, holding aloft a pheasant and two partidges, as she tramples a paper marked "Effeminacy". Miss Wicket wears a chip hat and jacket with waistcoat, her sporting petticoat short enough to reveal her ankles. Miss Trigger wears a large hat of the bergère style, a long coat with buttoned sleeves and boots. Behind the pair a young girl catches a ball
Description:
Title from item., Verse follows title: Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot. And forty-five notches Miss Wicket's just got., Date from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in plate at lower left: 276., Reduced version of no. 4555 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date erased from this impression?
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Women, Recreation, Sports for women, Gender identity, Cricket players, Hunting dogs, Game bird hunting, and Clothing & dress
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"(To be continued annually)"--Following imprint., With an engraved frontispiece showing two fashionably dressed couples walking in a park: The most elegant desses upon the Ton / Dighton del. ; Cook sculp., and With the original blind-ruled limp sheep. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Men, Recreation, Sexual behavior, and Social life and customs
