"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
"A hand-coloured plate divided into four compartments. Waiting for Dinner: an impatient diner shows his servant the time as the servant uncorks a bottle; At Dinner: a man heartily eats as the servant pours wine; After Dinner: A man leans back in his chair as a maid clears the table; Preparing for Supper: A maid puts a napkin on a diner who is guided into his chair by a servant."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title from collective title etched at bottom of plate., Artist signature below lower left design; printmaker signature below lower right design., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled within an etched and aquatinted border., Description based on impression in the Royal Collection, RCIN 810354., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored; sheet 21 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; only lower left design entitled "After dinner" present. The three other designs on plate, the collective title, and the imprint statement have been trimmed from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 22, 1789, by S. Alken, No. 2 Francis Street East, Bedford Square
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Bowls (Tableware), Dining rooms, Fireplaces, Glassware, Interiors, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), Stairways, Tableware, Tobacco, Wine, and Women domestics
A scene in a bedroom beside a canopy bed: A older gentleman with a caricatured face embraces a young servant woman who holds a warming pan in one hand and candlestick in the other. The man's wig is smoldering from the flame of the candle. The man's young valet slinks out of the room with the man's boots and a book jack under his arms, a look of alarm on his face. Beside the door is the man's duffle bag; his coat lies on the chair beside the bed
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Library of Congress impression., Publisher's statement below image: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humourous prints. Admit. 1 shilg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Lower right corner torn.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Interiors, Seduction, Servants, and Women domestics
Title engraved below image., Numbered '148' in lower left corner., Reduced and reversed copy of no. 4477 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Maidservants.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
"The interior of a dairy. A young undergraduate (left) stoops low, cap in hand, to admire the shoes of a pretty young woman, who pulls up her petticoats to display her legs. Her breast is uncovered. Beside her is a slightly damaged pitcher. A cat drinks from a bowl of cream on a shelf. Her back is towards a casement window through which an elderly man peers angrily."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 23 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Pantries, Pitchers, Students, and Women domestics
"A pretty young woman leans back in an arm-chair while a hairdresser applies paint to her face from a small box. She wears a morning-gown which leaves her breast much exposed. A woman (left) stands full-face behind her chair pouring out a glass of 'Hollands'. On the right is a dressing-table. L. & W., No. 127 (where the title continues, 'of an Impure's Face')."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue; original drawing is in the Huntington Library., No. 127 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdressers -- Female costume: morning dress -- Furniture -- Domestic service: woman-servant -- Beverages., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend, top of sheet.
Publisher:
Published 13th Octr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Women domestics, and Wine
"The interior of a dairy. A young undergraduate (left) stoops low, cap in hand, to admire the shoes of a pretty young woman, who pulls up her petticoats to display her legs. Her breast is uncovered. Beside her is a slightly damaged pitcher. A cat drinks from a bowl of cream on a shelf. Her back is towards a casement window through which an elderly man peers angrily."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Matted to 38 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Pantries, Pitchers, Students, 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
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
Publisher:
Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two images on one plate. The top image represents a master glowering at his terrified footman; the bottom image shows a mistress scowling at a frightened maid
Description:
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 6' in upper left corner., Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: An Olio of Good Breeding ... / by G.M. Woodward. London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Clarke ..., [1797]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
