publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1 August 1748.
Call Number:
748.08.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on women's fashion in the middle of the 18th century: in a richly appointed room, an elegant young woman with imposing stature looks the viewer in the eye as she is being measured (perhaps suggestively) by a gentleman staymaker while her maid...
Alternative Title:
Addresse du faiseur de corps au dames
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Moseley, engraver & printseller in Round Court in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Foundation garments, Women's clothing, Clothing & dress, Tailors, and Women domestics
A young maid holding a steaming pots talks with an older woman sitting in a chair, the latter wrapped in a blanket and toasting bread over an unseen fire; a tea set rests on a table in the background
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler
A maid pulls at the peg leg of a man in bed, mistaking it for the handle of a warming pan. A single sock and shoe lay on the floor beside the bed; a candle sits on the bureau in the background, in front of a small mirror
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Subject (Topic):
Women domestics, Beds, Peg legs, Pulling, Candles, and Mirrors
A young man (a servant?) and a housemaid embrace in the corner of a cellar, the spigot of the beer cask next to them wide open and beer overflowing from the pitcher beneath. An older man on the left stands in the doorway to the celler, atop the second...
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basements, Women domestics, Hugging, Barrels, Beer, Pitchers, Doors & doorways, and Candles
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...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
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
Print with an image at the top and two columns of letterpress below: A middle-aged man in a robe sits in an upholstered armchair, his gouty foot resting on a footstool, and a pained look on his face; medicine and a bowl on the table beside his chair (...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by S. and J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone-Place and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Life cycle, Human, Gout, Single women, Women domestics, Canopy beds, Chairs, Crutches, Cupids, Servants, Medicines, Cats, and Dogs
The interior of a well-furnished room. The dentist stands in front of a middle-aged woman seated in a chair (right); he holds her forehead with one hand, with the other he applies a small instrument to her mouth. She grasps a shawl in her left hand. A...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Black people, Birdcages, Cats, City and town life, Drawing rooms, Servants, and Women domestics
A large woman, her dress thrown up revealing her legs and part of her bottom, crashes to the floor, having broken her commode The contents of the commode spills out much to the anger of a lap dog and the terror of a cat who flees by climbing a curtain...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Topic):
Washstands, Falling, Dogs, Cats, Draperies, Women domestics, and Obesity
Volume 1, page 4. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A maid standing in a landscape with an empty basket in hand, looking out longingly, another behind her bends down to pick up a pail, in the distance across fields a steeple at left and cottage at right; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogu...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 20, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
