Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Title from caption below image., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Two lines of verse below title: "She lov'd him for the dangers he had pass'd, he loved her, that she did pity them" -Shakespear [sic]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: 1825 -- Female costume: 1825 -- Leg slings.
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma", . etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees
Alternative Title:
Walking hospital
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of etched verse beneath title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!, and Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
pubd. for the benifit [sic] of decayed musicians, [1790?]
Call Number:
790.00.00.68
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in a tricorne hat sits playing an organ with a score open in front of him. On the ground leaning against the organ are two volumes one with a label 'Davis' and a walking stick
Alternative Title:
Bagnigge organgist
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: What passion cannot music raise & quell when C..... struck his corded shell the listning drunkards stood around and wondring on their facaes fell. Vide Dry. Ode to S. Cecillia night., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bagnigge Wells -- Ode to St. Cecillia's Night., and Unidentified pencil note identifying organist as Charles Griffiths.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Musicial instruments, Musicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 87. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in profile wearing a hat and sword at his waist walks to the right carrying in his right hand a walking stick with a curved handle
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 10, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 87. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in profile wearing a hat and sword at his waist walks to the right carrying in his right hand a walking stick with a curved handle
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.3 x 12.2 cm, on sheet 19 x 12.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 10, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 87. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in profile wearing a hat and sword at his waist walks to the right carrying in his right hand a walking stick with a curved handle
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 87., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 10, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man standing stiffly in profile to the right, head thrown back with a contemptuous scowl. His left hand resting on a cane. He wears a low broad-brimmed hat, a tightly-curled wig, buttoned coat, and gloves."--British Museum online catalogue and "The etching appears to be a copy of 'Humility', British Museum Satires No. 4795. The same figure appears conspicuously (attending a quaker's meeting) British Museum Satires No. 4794. He strongly resembles British Museum Satires No. 4682, and is probably intended either for Nash Grose or Lord Lansdowne (then Shelburne) to whom the title would apply, from the well-known name of Malagrida, the notorious Portuguese Jesuit, given to him in the 'Public Advertiser' of 16 Sept. 1767. It is not unlike some portraits of Lansdowne, but is very different from the later caricatures, see British Museum Satires No. 6022, &c."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Jesuits., Sheet 249 x 154 mm., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by MDarly
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814
Leaf 62. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man standing stiffly in profile to the right, head thrown back with a contemptuous scowl. His left hand resting on a cane. He wears a low broad-brimmed hat, a tightly-curled wig, buttoned coat, and gloves."--British Museum online catalogue and "The etching appears to be a copy of 'Humility', British Museum Satires No. 4795. The same figure appears conspicuously (attending a quaker's meeting) British Museum Satires No. 4794. He strongly resembles British Museum Satires No. 4682, and is probably intended either for Nash Grose or Lord Lansdowne (then Shelburne) to whom the title would apply, from the well-known name of Malagrida, the notorious Portuguese Jesuit, given to him in the 'Public Advertiser' of 16 Sept. 1767. It is not unlike some portraits of Lansdowne, but is very different from the later caricatures, see British Museum Satires No. 6022, &c."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Jesuits.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. by MDarly
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Grose, Nash, Sir, 1740-1814
