"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sweep is about to climb up, putting one foot on his sack of soot. A cloaked market-woman, smoking a pipe, stands under the shelter, as does a man in the dress of a naval officer. A sailor, wearing trousers, his arms folded, appears to be dancing a hornpipe under the shelter of the hat. In the background (right) a lady walks (right to left) holding up a small umbrella which shelters only a minute part of her enormous hat which extends far beyond her projecting breast and petticoats. In the foreground chickens run towards a hen for shelter. A house (left) and a high wall behind which is a tree (right) complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Any port in a storm
Description:
Title from item., On verso, in pencil: questionable attribution to Kingsbury., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Hats, Sailors, British, Street vendors, Umbrellas, and Uniforms
Margaret Nicholson is restrained by two Beefeaters after her attempted assassination of King George IV as he stands next to his Royal carriage at the garden entrance of St. James's Palace
Alternative Title:
Attentat de Marguerite Nicholson contre Son Majesté le roi George III
Description:
Title etched below image, English on the left, French on the right., Date conjectured from date of the event depicted., Plate numbered: 576., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37.3 x 29.7 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,, and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828,
"Lord Lonsdale with the head of a wolf sits in his carriage, from which the horses have been taken, and is drawn (left to right) by men past a row of two-storied cottages which are falling to pieces. He wears an earl's coronet, and a military coat with a shirt frill; from his rapacious mouth issue the words 'Dear Gentlemen this is too much, now you really distress me'. A large earl's coronet is on the carriage door. A hind wheel rolls over an open book, 'Peter Pindar'. A stout fierce-looking man wearing a legal wig sits on the box, raising a whip whose lashes are three scrolls inscribed (in legal blackletter), 'Littledale versus Lonsdale', 'Indemnifications', and 'Sham Trials'. He holds a bunch of reins attached to the necks of the men dragging the carriage, on whose faces are fixed, propitiatory grins. From his pockets issue a volume inscribed 'Blackstone', and a paper: 'Bills unpaid'; he is Lonsdale's 'clerk and attorney', see BMSat 8156. Two of the men whom he drives say: "No Ropes equal to mine, at a dead pull and A glorious night for my Brewery". Another man is in rags. In front of the procession and on the extreme right walk two couples holding hands. These carry three banners, inscribed: 'The good Samaritan', 'The Lion The Lamb', and: 'The Blues are bound in Adamantine Chains But Freedom round each Yellow Mansion reigns.' One of the men says slyly to the woman he walks with: 'And makes the Farmers Wives & Daughters Game' This is a quotation from Peter Pindar's 'Commiserating Epistle to Lord Lonsdale', see BMSat 8003. The context is: 'Yet why should Hares, and Partridges, and Grouse, Alone be ravish'd from the Farmer's house ? - Go, Lonsdale, get an Act to raise thy fame, And make . . .' Behind the carriage (left) is a cheering crowd; they wave their hats frantically shouting, "Liberty, Huzza, Huzza." The man in the foreground is a sailor with a bludgeon. Over the door of one of the ruined cottages is a placard: 'To lett convenient lodgings.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Matted to 56 x 71 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Three sailors race on horses along a beach as a dog chases them
Description:
Title etched below image., After Rowlandson?, Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Horse racing, Sailors, British, and Uniforms
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and possibly song text., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Cannons, Musical instruments, Sailors, Uniforms, Violins, and Warships
A man in Cossack uniform and holding a lance races on horseback towards the right as he looks behind to the left. In the distance a group of other Cossacks charge ahead, some with raised spears
Alternative Title:
Private Cossack at full speed
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of the series of prints depicting Suvorov's Russian Army., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints & drawings lent to copy., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
