"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
Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: 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., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10820 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a pair of travellers who struggle with slippers during their stay at an inn. One man is helped as he removes his boots with the aid of a boot jack. Another traveller falls backwards from the stairs as his well-used and oversized slippers fall from his feet. A maid carrying a candle and with a bed pan, waits for the men. A well furnished room marked 'Travellers Room' in the background."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miseries of traveling and At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of descriptive text below title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published in 1807, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810672., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Slippers, Boots, Stairways, Falling, Accidents, Women domestics, Candles, and Bedpans
Title engraved below image., Reduced and reversed copy of this print was published by Sayer on September 10, 1787. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6 , no. 8265., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Footman -- Fording -- Pick-a-back -- Queue wig., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed at lower edge.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
[approximately 1740] and [printed approximately 1825]
Call Number:
740.00.00.63+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on housemaids showing a figure composed from implements connected with their work: 1. A Pattapan (the crown of her hat); 2. Elm platter (the brim): 3. Thimbles (her eyes); 4. Pepperbox (her nose); 5. Puter [sic] Plate (her face); 6. Round Towel (her hair); 7. Hair Sive[sic] (her neck); 8. Elm bowl (her shoulders); 9. Two China basons (her breasts); 10. Two Quart Mugs (her upper arms); 11. a Bunch of Matches (her right hand); 12. a Piked Stair Bursh[sic] (her stomacher); 13. Rowling Pin (Her left forearm); 14. Dusting Cloths (her cuffs); 15. Trencher Bruch[sic] (her left hand); 16. Weapon of Defence (her spit); 17. Iron Scuer[sic] (her right ulna); 18. A Payl (the upper part of her torso); 19. Porrige Pot (her lower torso); 20. Cabbage Net ; 21. Nutmeg grater (these last two fastened at her waist); 22. Crack in ye Pot (her genitals); 23. Bellows (her thighs); 24. Scrubing Brush (her left foot); 25. Thrum mop (her right foot); 26. Pudding Stire (the radius of her right arm); other domestic utensils lie on the ground, within a rococo frame, a cartouche below containing the title and key; beneath is a "letterof Recommendation to a Service" from "Margery Makefree" addressed "To the Lady Crosspatch" extolling the maid's good qualities and making little of the fact that she "had ye Misfortune by a fall to be Crack'd & is become Pot Belly'd"; "P.S. She will come for small wages"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within image., Later state with imprint burnished from plate., Original publication attributed by Stephens to Bickham and dated ca. 1740., Publication date of this state from watermark., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., Six lines of a 'letter of recommendation' etched below the cartouche containing key to the implements: To the Lady Crosspatch! Madam, I have lately brought to town a poor wench ..., Cf. No. 2472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Watermark: J Whatman 1825., and Window mounted to 36 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Equipment, Servants, and Women domestics
Burford, Thomas, approximately 1710-approximately 1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1752 and 1764]
Call Number:
741.00.00.15+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A cleric taking tea with a young woman in morning dress, who sits on a sofa pouring the tea for him, while a maid stands on the left holding a piece of lace ready to help dress her mistress; after Lancret; from a set of the four Times of Day."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from item., Later state with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state from 1741 with the publication line "Sold by I. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2718., Date of publication based on publisher's name in imprint; John Bowles partnered with his son Carington Bowles and traded as "John Bowles & Son" from approximately 1752 to 1764. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: This early visit to the beauteous fair ..., and One of four plates in an untitled series on the times of the day.
Publisher:
Sold by I. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]
"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
"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
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from that of book; see British Museum catalogue., One of 14 plates from: Something concerning nobody / edited by Somebody. London : R. Scholey, 1814., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "4"., and Watermark trimmed.
"Social satire: a man hides a plate with a roast pig carried to a table by a serving girl from two parsons, well practised in the art, who have sniffed it out and want a piece, saying it is only eggs and bacon and "I scorns to tell a lie your Honors. - I attends to your Sarmunts to much for that"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: T Edmonds 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 5th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly