Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st Jany. 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young maid sitting in an ornate armchair by a round table with an almost empty wine bottle and glasses on it, is being embraced by a black manservant sitting on a stool in front of her. Another black servant is sitting sideways on a chair near them. He is tipping it perilously as he tries with a great effort to play a horn. An open book lies on the floor in the foreground and a painting on the wall in the background is partially covered by an ornate curtain
Alternative Title:
Mungo addressing himself to my lady's maid
Description:
Title from item., The printmaker's name from other prints signed by William Humphrey as 'Umfrey' and published by Sayer., Plate numbered '207' in lower right corner., One line of text below title: For wine inspires us, and fires us, with courage, love and joy, &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Black manservants -- Musical instruments: horn -- Furniture: round table -- Chairs -- Furnishings: curtain -- Painting -- Effects of wine., and Numbered in contemporary hand in upper right corner '155.'
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Draperies, Musical instruments, Servants, and Women domestics
"Caricature on Queen Caroline, who is sponged in her bath by Bergami, while a maid throws up her hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Delicate recreations on board a polacre
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Theodore Lane from a similar print, likewise bearing the signature of "Selim" and also published by George Humphrey in October 1820, that is attributed to Lane in the British Museum online catalogue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.12.160., See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 13890., and Mounted on page 5 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Leaf 47. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For a brief mention of the original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1209.76-111., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Four lines of dialogue below title: My dear friend! I lament your death exceedingly! ..., and On leaf 47 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Women domestics, Mops & mopsticks, Pails, and Cats
"A man spying through a key-hole at a lady in a bath is squirted with water in the eye by her maid."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title and numbering, imprint, statement of responsibility and dimensions from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Signed "G de Cari" in design, on the wall in the lower right., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 22 November 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1982,U.1215., and Sheet trimmed within design with loss of left portion of the image (lady in the bath), the imprint statement, and series title and numbering. Title mounted below.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet Libre., rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Bathrooms, Curiosity, Lust, Water guns, and Women domestics
Title from item., Place of publication derived from street address., In image: h.D., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Silhouettes. No. 4., Published in Le Charivari, 20 December 1840., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Bauger Rue du Croissant 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Housekeeping, Eating & drinking, Women domestics, and Dusting
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash is helping her getting dressed; above them, Cupid flying with arrow in his hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See no. 2211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 72 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
"A woman sitting over the cradle of her child, at right a servant woman seen from the back pours from a jug into a saucer resting on a ledge below a portrait of the Lady, standing three-quarter length with folded arms; oval design after Bunbury, illustration to the ballad of the same title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Two lines of text below title: Balow my boy, lie still and sleep, it grieves me sore, to see thee weep., Illustration to the ballad 'Lady Ann Bothwell's lament'., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, Women domestics, and Pitchers
"Lady Strathmore leans back in an armchair, her legs crossed; in her right hand is a birch-rod, she holds in her left hand the hand of a boy, her (supposed) step-son, whom another woman (right) holds out for chastisement. He is crying, the woman is about to take off his breeches. On the extreme right a dinner-table is partly visible, with a large tureen decorated with coat of arms and coronet. Lady Strathmore's hair is decorated with flowers and feathers, her breasts are much exposed and her appearance is meretricious."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1786, by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800 and Strathmore, John Bowes, Earl of, 1769-1820
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, shovel, tongues, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bees wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
"A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish. Below the design: 'Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of Ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker and publisher from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
