"Shipwreck of the Nancy packet returning from India in a stormy sea off the Scilly Isles, with group of women, children and sailors in wrecked boat; people clinging to pieces of wood under raging waves at right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of published state.
Description:
Proof state before letters. and Title, printmaker, and publication information from published state. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13497.
"The Prince stands in back view, his head turned to the left. His heels are together. His powdered hair or wig has a cockatoo-like crest, worn with a very small queue, round which his coat is thickly frosted with powder, cf. BMSat 8190. His neck, as indicated by his coat-collar, is grotesquely thick, his coat has the bulky sleeves associated with Jean de Bry, see BMSat 9425, with pointed coat-tails. Under his left arm is a cocked hat. The word 'Honi . . .' appears on his garter."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Prince of Wales from behind
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publication information based on similar plates from the same series., Title and printmaker from Grego., and Twenty-second of 24 plates from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799.
Publisher:
[H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair]
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, description of a later state.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., CtY-BR, Early state, before aquatint added. For later states published by William Holland in 1795 and 1805, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. 795.07.00.02+ and Wellcome Library no. 533361i., First of two plates with the same title, both etched by Rowlandson after Wigstead; see Grego. For the second plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1947,1215.2., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of title and imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title from later states of the plate.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher., Riviere & Son Binding., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
Thurlow (left), in wig and gown, leads a horse which draws a two-wheeled cart of peas. In the cart are Hastings (seated) and Burke (standing Both hold up pea-pods. In the background are Westminster Hall and other buildings. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Possibily a proof state; no published state with lettering found., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Questionable attribution to Baldrey from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title from British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., Rich, E., active 1782-1788, publisher., and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Possibly a proof state before title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3321. and Title from British Museum online catalogue.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-56
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable.
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., and Title from Grego.
Publisher:
W. Humphry, no. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., Monro, John,--1715-1791--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: J.B.W. Esqr. delin. ; T. Rowlandson etchd., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Proof state of a plate from: McCringer, J. A Compendious Treatise of Modern Education. London : Smeeton, 1802., Publication information based on lettered state with the imprint "Pubd. May 10th, 1802, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi." Cf. Impression of the lettered state in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation., and Title from lettered state.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher., and Williams, J. B., active 1802, artist.
Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting
Description:
Reduced version of a print, also by Gillray, entitled: The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting. Cf. No. 8822 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7. and Title and date of publication based on those of larger version of print.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and William--V,--Prince of Orange,--1748-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.