A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' series by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830 mocking supposed racial differences and modeled after George and Robert Cruikshank's Life in London
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: An image of a hand, palm facing the viewer., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pasted on a blue album sheet at corners: 21.5 x 18 cm.
"The interior of a church. Archbishop Markham (left) delivering a charge to his clergy. He stands (left) within the chancel rails; in his left hand he holds up a flaming torch; in his right hand, which rests on a balustrade, he holds a birch-rod and a paper inscribed "Factious C--y--n. [Countrymen], A Lamentable Want of Sobriety, Foremost in mischief. This is no Gainfull Traffick - Nonresistance &c. Explain'd. Vide my Sermon. Charity Thinketh no Evil &c. A perfectly detestable Faction &c." On the right, in the body of the church, sit clergymen dressed in gown and bands, they listen with varying expressions. Behind the archbishop is a table of the Ten Commandments, on which is inscribed, "... VI Thou shalt do no Murder and IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness &c." Below the design is etched, "Remarks upon a late charge delivered not 100 Miles from Y--k. Vide Rememr.pt. 2nd 1781- page 239."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archbishop Laud charging his clergy
Description:
Title etched below image., Etched beneath title: Hac itur ad astra' Anglicé - This is the road to Lambeth., and Ms. note in ink in an unidentified hand on verso: Before price 2s. was etched. Numbered also on verso in upper left.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and York
Subject (Name):
Markham, William, 1719-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Preaching, and Torches
"design in two groups, one (left) representing the past, the other (right) the present. A Dutchman personifying the Dutch Republic, threatened by Spain (left) kneels, hat in hand, before a military officer representing England, imploring help. He says, "the poor distracted States of Holland". The Englishman answers, "I am your Friend Mynheer I'll help you up & beat your foes". A Spaniard stands (left) behind the Dutchman's back, his sword raised to strike, his left fist clenched, saying, "I am determined Mynheer you shall never rise more". On the right is another group of figures representing Holland, England, America, France, and Spain: A Dutchman on the extreme right, smoking a pipe, his hands in his breeches pocket, scowls at an English officer, saying, "I am now ye high & Mighty." (The States General of the United Provinces were addressed as Hogen Mogen, 'High Mightinesses'.) The Englishman, a drawn sword in his hand, says to him "Now is ye time to pay ye debt of Gratitude". America, an Indian holding a tomahawk, says to France, pointing to England, It shall never have my Colonies again. France, a French military officer with a drawn sword, wearing spurred jack-boots, points to England, saying, "begar me will have half his Possessions". Spain, in cloak and feathered hat, also with a drawn sword, stands behind France saying "Don Diego has vow'd the downfall of England." Beneath the design verses are engraved: "See Holland oppress'd by his old Spanish Foe, To England with cap in hand kneels very low, The Free-hearted Britton, dispels all its care, And raises it up from the brink of Dispair. But when three spitefull foes old England beset, The Dutchman refuses to pay a Just debt; With his hands in his pockets he says he'll stand Neuter, And England his Friend may be D------d for the Future.""--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Dutch, Caricatures and cartoons, French, Spaniards, Caricatures and cartons, Americans, Indians of North America, and Clothing & dress
Full length profile portrait facing left of Elizabeth Chudleigh during her trial for bigamy. She wears a black dress with a hood and holds papers in each hand. An upholstered armchair is behind her
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Chaloner-Smith., and Print trimmed into plate mark, repairs to lower corners, inlaid, folded.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Bigamy, Trials (Bigamy), Clothing & dress, and Chairs
A macabre caricature divided into two compartments, The Dandy and The Dangle. On the left, a strutting dandy ties his neckcloth in front of a mirror saying: 'I declare these large Neckcloths are monstrously handy, They [serve] for a shirt too and make one a Dandy.' The right hand image is of a dandy, head covered in a cloth, dangling from a wooden beam with a tie around his neck. Behind him is a town square and in the foreground, a crowd looks on. The image is accompanied by the text: 'When a man comes to this there's little to hope, His neat Dandy Neckcloth is changed for a Rope'.
Alternative Title:
Modern neckcloths
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary manuscript correction in ink of the leftmost speech bubble, with the omitted word "serve" inserted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Great Britain, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Dandies, Mirrors, Neckties, and Hangings (Executions)
A full-length view of a woman in an elaborate costume, with feathers and on her dress and flowers in her big hair
Description:
Title etched above image., Text following title: To be continu'ed., Four lines of verse below image: To see our feather'd nymph appear in all her flaunting glittering gear ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and printmaker's signature., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Signed in contemporary hand on verso: ...[?] Porter.